unsettling Cather: Differences Dislocations June 17+ – 21, 2019 Shenandoah University | Winchester, Virginia 17th International Willa Cather Seminar Willa International 17th Welcome to Virginia, and welcome to the featured speakers 17th International Keynote speaker Siobhan Somerville is the author Willa Cather Seminar! of Queering the Color Line: Race and the Invention of Homosexuality in American Culture and the You drove into town by Water forthcoming A Queer Genealogy of Naturalization in Street, lined on either side with neat the U.S. (Duke). She is Associate Professor of English, mansard houses built of pale gray African American Studies, and Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Illinois. limestone, gray, but almost blue, and not dressed so smooth as to take all the life out of the rugged stone. Such genteel Zita Nunes, Associate Professor of English and houses they were, opening directly on Comparative Literature at the University of the street, with green window shutters, Maryland, is the author of Cannibal Democracy: Race and Representation in the Literature of the Americas. and brass knockers. . . . Water Street She teaches and conducts research in the areas of seemed to welcome you to town. African American/African Diaspora literature, the ~ Sapphira and the Slave Girl literature of the Americas, and literary theory.

“Unsettling Cather: Differences and Dislocations” hopes to un-root or Joseph Dimuro is a Continuing Lecturer in the UCLA English Department. His current research focuses on unsettle our notions of Cather through spatial perception in the making of national identities attention to those differences and in 20th century American literature, and on the libid- dislocations that marked Cather’s life and inal economy in the works of Cather, Anderson, James work, beginning with her undergraduate and other American writers of the time. stories and culminating in her late- life return to Virginia in her last novel, Sapphira and the Slave Girl. The seminar includes papers from a broad array of Christin Taylor is an Assistant Professor of English at approaches to Cather’s life and work, and Shenandoah University. Her work focuses on African we aim to jump start conversations that American literature and culture, Southern studies and representations of the working classes. Her book, have been muted in Cather studies in Labor Pains: New Deal Fictions of Work, Sex, and Race recent years and to invite new voices into is forthcoming from the University of Mississippi. the discussion.

We are happy to welcome many new faces to this Seminar, and we look Matthew Clark Greer is a Ph.D. candidate in forward to a wonderful week of Anthropology at Syracuse University; his scholarship, collaboration, and dissertation is titled “Assembling Enslaved Life: celebration. Composing Slavery, Places, and Histories in the Northern Shenandoah Valley.” Program Directors: Marilee Lindemann, Associate Professor, Jonathan Noyalas is the Director of the McCormick University of Maryland Civil War Institute at Shenandoah University. His current research focuses on post-emancipation Afri- Ann Romines, can-American life in the Shenandoah Valley. He is the Professor Emerita, author of numerous monographs on the Civil War in the Northern Shenandoah Valley. George Washington University

Site Director: John Jacobs, Adeela Al-Khalili is a board member of the Josephine Professor Emeritus, School Museum which memorializes the founding of an independent African American community in Shenandoah University nearby Berryville, Virginia, just after the Civil War. Patti Burris, Southeast Community College (R14) “Mr. Shimerda’s Destiny” featured speakers Burris teaches English at Southeast Community College in Beatrice, Nebraska. The location of this Cather Seminar is especially meaningful because Virginia is where her grandad Jackson was born and raised. As a young man in 1916, he left Virginia for Nebraska.

Sarah Clere, The Citadel (M4) “Material Culture in Sapphira and the Slave Girl” Sarah Clere teaches at The Citadel in Charleston, South Carolina. Her work on Cather appears in Cather Studies 9 and Studies in the Novel.

Timothy Cramer, Santa Monica College (T10) “Teaching Cather in a Diverse Classroom” Anna Creadick, Hobart and William Smith Colleges (T8) “Lost Ladies: (Dis)locating Cather as Feminist Recovery Work” Creadick is Professor of English and American Studies at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, New York. She writes on topics including Appalachia, gender, disability, Faulkner, whiteness, pop fiction, and pedagogy, in such venues asSouthern Cultures, Post-45 Peer Reviewed, Appalachian Journal, Mosaic, and Transformations.

K. E. Daft, Central College–Pella, Iowa (R14) “A Sociological and Literary Examination of Willa Cather’s Fraught Relationship with Czech Culture” Willow Shade. Elizabeth A. Shannon collection. Willa Cather Foundation Special Collections & Archives at Daft is a graduate of Central College in Pella, Iowa. Recent projects the National Willa Cather Center in Red Cloud. PHO-277-045 include an honors thesis on cryptography and Masonic symbolism in Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado” and creative work on On the cover: “Pioneer” Willa Cather linocut, © Horse and Hare LLC. Used with permission. innovative poetic form. Joseph Dimuro, UCLA (P2) Presenters “Willa Cather’s Queer Economy” See bio, page 2 Adeela al-Khalili, Josephine School Museum (P1) “The Founding of Berryville, an African-American Town” Joshua Dolezal, Central College–Pella, Iowa (F15) “‘Lost By a Song’: The Neuroscience of Epiphany Aimee Allard, University of Nebraska–Lincoln (R14) in Lucy Gayheart” “‘A Gleam of Something Akin to Insanity in Her’: Doležal is Professor of English at Central College, where he teaches The Unsettling Specter of Mrs. Cutter in Willa Cather’s American literature, medical humanities, and creative writing. His My Ántonia” memoir, Down from the Mountaintop: From Belief to Belonging (2014), was Allard earned her PhD from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln in short-listed for the William Saroyan Prize. His work has appeared or May 2018. Allard is a Project Coordinator in the University of is forthcoming in journals such as Medical Humanities, Literature and Nebraska Press’s Journals Department. Her research probes the Medicine, Interdisciplinary Literary Studies, and Cather Studies. intersection between psychiatry and literature through an analysis of Simone Droge, University of Nebraska–Lincoln (F17) the “madwoman” figure in a variety of literary forms. “Unveiling Cather: Making Her Voice Accessible and Timothy W. Bintrim, Saint Francis University (F20) Reorienting Our Lens” “Wee Winkie Goes to Washington: Cather’s Early Droge is an undergraduate at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Impressions of the Nation’s Capital and Mount Vernon” majoring in English and History, and minoring in Women’s & Gender Bintrim is Professor of English and Environmental Studies at Saint Studies and Digital Humanities. She works at the UNL Writing Center Francis University in Loretto, Pennsylvania, near the summer estate of and serves on the English Student Advisory Board. Charles M. Schwab, the steel tycoon in “Paul’s Case.” He co-directed Jane Elkin, Independent (F17) the 16th International Cather Seminar in Pittsburgh in 2017, and with “‘Hélas: My Unfortunate Handwriting’: the Power James Jaap and Kim Vanderlaan is co-editing Cather Studies 13. Behind the Pen in Willa Cather’s Life and Literature” Nanci Boisvert, Independent (M2) Elkin is a handwriting analyst with an MFA from Bennington Writing “Wrenches and Jars and Wounding Contacts: Unsettling Desire” Seminars, where she studied authorial use of script as a character and plot development tool. A former handwriting analysis instructor at Boisvert is an independent scholar who will soon complete her Anne Arundel Community College, she has written on the topic for dissertation at Boston College. Her work examines Willa Cather and The Bay Weekly and Chesapeake Children’s Magazine, and was a featured her texts through the lens of the affect shame and the its resulting speaker and on Retirement Living TV’s Daily Cafe Live. scripts, ideas originally developed in the work of Sylvan Tomkins. Presenters, cont’d Charmion Gustke, Belmont University (T7) “Radical Geography and the Bodily Subject in John Flannigan, Prairie State College, emeritus (T6) Sapphira and The Slave Girl” “‘Something Not Quite Regular’: The Perils of Vaudeville Gustke is Assistant Professor at Belmont University in Nashville. She in Cather’s ‘Her Boss’” directs the interdisciplinary first-year seminar program and has just Flannigan is a retired professor of English at Prairie State College, returned from teaching in Paris. Recent publications include “Stop the Chicago Heights, Illinois. His essays on Cather, music, and opera Machine: Civil Disobedience and Maria Alyokhina’s Riot Days” in The have appeared in Cather Studies, Modern Fiction Studies, Studies in Short Concord Saunterer: A Journal of Thoreau Studies and “Big Steel and Class Fiction, and the Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial Newsletter. His essay Consciousness in ‘Paul’s Case,’” forthcoming in Cather Studies 13. “Cather’s Evolving Ear: Music Reheard in the Late Fiction” is included Sue Hallgarth, Independent (P5) in Cather Studies 12 (forthcoming 2019). Author of On the Rocks and Death Comes Elizabeth Foulke, University of Rhode Island (T5) Sue Hallgarth is a former English professor and administrator at “New Horizons: The Single Woman in Willa William Woods University and SUNY/Empire State College. She has Cather’s O Pioneers!” written scholarly articles on Willa Cather and Edith Lewis and Foulke is a fourth year PhD student at the University of Rhode Island. published two novels featuring the two of them: On the Rocks (2013) For her doctoral work, Elizabeth is writing a collection of creative and Death Comes (2017) essays on literary and cultural representations of the single childless Melissa J. Homestead, University of Nebraska–Lincoln woman. She is the senior editor of The Ocean State Review and her (F20) “‘We are the Only Wonderful Things’: The Final poetry and essays have appeared in Plainsongs, The Wayfarer, and Years of Willa Cather and Edith Lewis’s Partnership” Grub Street Literary Magazine. Homestead is Professor of English and Program Faculty in Women’s Lisbeth Fuisz, Georgetown University (R11) & Gender Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where her “Storied Landscapes in the Works of Willa Cather and research and teaching focuses on American women’s writing and Francis LaFlesche” authorship. Her book on Willa Cather’s and Edith Lewis’s creative Fuisz is an adjunct lecturer in the Georgetown University Writing partnership is under contract with Oxford University Press. She is Program. associate editor of the Complete Letters of Willa Cather: A Digital Edition, and becomes Director of the Cather Project at UNL in August. Geneva Gano, Texas State University (T5) “UnAmerican Activities: The Sexual Lives of Hired Girls, Barry Hudek, University of Illinois (R13) or, Cather’s Critique of Capitalism” “Willa Cather’s ‘Black Liberation Theology’ in Gano is Assistant Professor of English at Texas State University. Her Sapphira and the Slave Girl” work was published in Violence, the Arts, and Willa Cather. Her research Hudek is a Lecturer, teaching business and professional writing focuses on women writers of the United States. classes at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In 2017, he completed his dissertation, “Book of Empire: the Political Bible of Jace Gatzemeyer, Penn State (F18) “Regionalism Literary Modernism,” at the University of Mississippi. Démeublé: Cather’s Reflective Nostalgia” Gatzemeyer is a PhD student specializing in late 19th- and early Barbara Hustwit, College of Wooster, emerita (M3) 20th-century American fiction, particularly literary modernism and its “Willa Cather and 19th Century Frederick County Names: historical, sociological, and philosophical contexts. His research An Addendum to Mildred Bennett’s Article” interests lie at the confluence of literature and geography. Hustwit’s extensive research on Cather’s prototypes includes the book Never Far from Home: Willa Cather, On Choosing Names from Frederick William Gonch, University of Maryland (F19) County, Virginia, for Her Literary Characters. “Postsecular Peripheries: Augusta and Fr. Vaillant” Gonch is a PhD candidate at the University of Maryland. John Jacobs, Shenandoah University, emeritus (R12) “The Aeneid and One of Ours: Willa Cather Displaces the Matthew Clark Greer, Syracuse University (P1) Imperial Epic” “African American Life in Sapphira and the Slave Girl: Jacobs is Professor Emeritus of English at Shenandoah University. He New Perspectives from Archeology and History” was the site director for the 1997 International Cather Seminar and See bio, page 2. reprises the role in 2019.

Paul Grosskopf, University of Nebraska–Lincoln (T6) Andrew Jewell, University of Nebraska–Lincoln (M1) “The Strong Arm Reaches Out: Transnational Rural “Dislocating the Cather Family: The End of Willa Masculinity and Marriage as Abduction in Willa Cather’s Cather’s Virginia Childhood” ‘On the Divide’” Jewell, editor of the Willa Cather Archive and co-editor of Complete Grosskopf is an English PhD student at UNL. He has a Masters from Letters of Willa Cather, is a Professor in the University of Nebraska- Northern Illinois University. His research interests include rural Lincoln Libraries. He is the co-editor of The Selected Letters of Willa women writers, modernity, and transnationalism in American Cather (2013), and the co-editor of the journal Scholarly Editing: The literature of the long nineteenth century. Annual of the Association for Documentary Editing. He is a member of the Willa Cather Foundation Board of Governors. Presenters, cont’d Jonathan Noyalas, McCormick Civil War Institute at Shenandoah University (P1) Sallie Ketcham, Independent (R11) “African American Life in Sapphira and the Slave Girl: New “Willa Cather and Mari Sandoz: The Muse and the Perspectives from Archeology and History” Story Catcher in the Capital City” See bio, page 2. Ketcham is a fifth-generation Nebraskan, whose recent publications Zita Nunes, University of Maryland (P4) include Laura Ingalls Wilder: American Writer on the Prairie (2014) and “Willa Cather and the Harlem Renaissance” Pioneer Girl Perspectives: Exploring Laura Ingalls Wilder (2017). Ketcham’s See bio, page 2. mother, Sally Johnson Ketcham, served as Curator of History at the Nebraska State Historical Society 1951-1960. Julie Olin-Ammentorp, Le Moyne College (M2) “Displacement and the Meaning of Place in Cather Matthew Lavin, University of Pittsburgh (T8) and Wharton” “Contextualizing Cather’s Relationship with The New York Olin-Ammentorp is Professor of English and Director of Women’s Times Book Review” & Gender Studies at Le Moyne College in Syracuse, New York, and Lavin is a Clinical Assistant Professor of English and Director of the serves on the board of Cather Studies and on the board of the Willa Digital Media Lab at the University of Pittsburgh. Lavin’s most recent Cather Foundation. Her paper draws from her forthcoming book scholarship examines intersections of book history and digital Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, and the Place of Culture. humanities, with particular focus on computational methods and data. Daryl Palmer, Regis University (M1) Marilee Lindemann, University of Maryland (P5, chair) “The Complex Masculinity of Charles Cather, Lindemann is Associate Professor of English at the Univesrity of The Original Virginian of Red Cloud, Nebraska” Maryland. She co-directs this Seminar. Palmer is Professor of English at Regis University in Denver. Though a British literature scholar, he has published extensively on Cather and Sonja Lynch, Wartburg College (F18) has a forthcoming book, Becoming Willa Cather: Creation and Career, with “Light, the Land, and the Power of Memory: University of Nevada Press. Impressionism in My Ántonia” Lynch is Associate Professor of English at Wartburg College in Charles Peek, University of Nebraska–Kearney, Waverly, Iowa. Her research interests include Impressionism and emeritus (T10) “Teaching Cather in a Diverse Classroom” ecocriticism. Peek is a past member of the Willa Cather Foundation Board of Governors with numerous publications to his credit, including the Peter Mallios, University of Maryland (F19) Willa Cather Review and Cather Studies. “Political Peripheries: The Professor’s House and the Modern Presidency” Hunter Plummer, Texas A&M (T5) Mallios is Associate Professor of English at the University of Maryland. “‘I don’t know but she’d run a business better than a He specializes in modern American literature and the modern novel. house’: Cather’s Office Wives and Their Work” Publications include Our Conrad: Constituting American Modernity Plummer is a PhD student at Texas A&M University where he studies (2010), concerning Joseph Conrad’s literary, cultural, and political the New Woman and female journalist narratives. He earned his reception in the US and its implications for American modernism and Masters in English from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and is writers including Cather. excited to be attending his second Cather Seminar.

Richard Millington, Smith College (M1) Diane Prenatt, Marian University (T7) “Refocusings: Sapphira by the Light of New Histories “The Use of Force: Medicalized Bodies in of Slavery” Sapphira and the Slave Girl” Millington is the Helen and Laura Shedd Professor of English Prenatt is Professor Emerita of English at Marian University, where Language & Literature at Smith College. He co-edited Cather Studies 10, she taught American and European literature and established a Willa Cather and the Nineteenth Century. Medical Humanities program. She has published essays in Cather Studies and the Willa Cather Review and is at work on the biography Joseph Murphy, Fu Jen Catholic University (M4) of Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant. She is a member of the Willa Cather “From ‘Mansoul’ to ‘de Cane-brake’: Biblical Typology Foundation Board of Governors and will co-direct the 2020 Willa and Blackface Minstrelsy in Sapphira and the Slave Girl” Cather Spring Conference and Symposium. Murphy is Associate Professor of English at Fu Jen Catholic University in Taipei. His essays on Cather have appeared in Cather Studies, Emily J. Rau, University of Nebraska–Lincoln (T8) American Literary Scholarship, and Violence, the Arts, and Willa Cather “‘The neighbors had helped them to build it’: (2007) and Willa Cather and Aestheticism (2012). His article “Blind Willa Cather and the Public Humanities” d’Arnault, Stephen Foster, and the Irish: The Blackface Minstrel Rau is Managing Editor of the Willa Cather Archive and is an editorial Legacy in My Ántonia” is published in the Willa Cather Review. assistant for Western American Literature and a doctoral student at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She has published in the Willa Cather Review and has presented at the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, the Willa Cather International Seminar, and Digital Humanities 2016. Sunday, June 16, 2019 12:30 Lunch 2-5 p.m. Seminar check-in at Shenandoah’s 1:45 p.m. Concurrent Sessions University Inn M3. Virginia Roots and History 2 - 5:00-6:00 Cafeteria dinner service Halpin 222 Meal package begins with Sunday Panelists: Mary Ruth Ryder, dinner service and Barbara Hustwit 7:00 p.m. Reception - Henkel Hall Chair: Steven Shively Coffee & cookies served M4. Sapphira’s Virginia - Halpin 226 Panelists: Sarah Clere and Meals served in Allen Dining Hall Joseph Murphy Chair: Charmion Gustke Breakfast: 7:30 AM -8:30 AM Lunch: 11:30 AM- 1 PM 3:30 p.m. Tours of Cather’s Virginia Dinner: begins at 5 - 6 PM (unless arranged) Buses will load at Student Center Enjoy a visit to Willow Shade and If you purchased a meal ticket, simply give your other sites relevant to Cather’s name to the cashier; otherwise, they accept cash & life and writing, followed by a tour credit cards. and dinner at Capon Springs resort

Monday, June 17, 2019 Up yonder, at the end of a long road winding through the woods, the level line of Timber Ridge rose like a blue wall. When I was something over five years old . . . I was in my mother’s you had crossed the ridge and gone on a ways, you came to the bedroom, in the third story of a big old brick house entered by Capon River. Till had been that far, when the Mistress stayed at a white portico with fluted columns. . . . I could see the clouds Capon Springs to take the baths. drive across the bright, cold sky, throwing rapid shadows on ~Sapphira and the Slave Girl the steep hillsides. The great slats of the green window shutters rattled, the limp cordage of the great willow trees in the yard was whipped and tossed furiously by the wind. ~ Sapphira and the Slave Girl Tuesday, June 18, 2019 9:00 a.m. Welcome and Introductions Stimpson Auditorium 9:00 a.m. Concurrent Sessions 9:15 a.m. P1. Plenary: African American T5. Unsettling Women - Halpin 222 Life in Sapphira and the Slave Girl: Panelists: Elizabeth Foulke, Geneva New Perspectives from Gano, and J. Hunter Plummer Archaeology and History Chair: Melissa Homestead Stimpson Auditorium T6. Urban and Rural Diversities Panelists: Adeela al-Khalili, Matthew in the Short Fiction - Halpin 226 Clark Greer, Jonathan Noyalas, Panelists: John Flannigan, Paul Ann Romines Grosskopf, and Yohei Yamamoto Chair: John Jacobs Chair: Timothy Bintrim 11:00 a.m. Concurrent Sessions - Halpin 222 10:45 a.m. P2. Plenary: Unsettled Bodies M1. Virginia Roots and History 1 Stimpson Auditorium Panelists: Andrew Jewell, Daryl “Willa Cather’s Queer Economy,” Palmer, and Richard Millington Joseph Dimuro Chair: Sarah Clere “Haptic Narrative: Touch, Violence, and Disability in M2. Dislocations - Halpin 226 Sapphira and the Slave Girl,” Panelists: Nanci Boisvert, Guy Reynolds Julie Olin-Ammentorp, and Chair: Marilee Lindemann Kimberly Vanderlaan Chair: Diane Prenatt 12:15 p.m. Lunch 1:30 p.m. Concurrent Sessions 6:00 p.m. Depart for Shenandoah University T7. Body Matters - Halpin 222 Buses will load at NMAAHC Panelists: Diane Prenatt, Elizabeth Wells, and Charmion Gustke 8:00 p.m. Cather Trivia - Student Center Chair: Marilee Lindemann Cash bar, prizes, a legendary battle of memory and skill. Also smack-talk. T8. Canons, Contexts, and Communities - Halpin 226 Thursday, June 20, 2019 Panelists: Anna Creadick, Matthew 9:00 a.m. Concurrent Sessions Lavin, and Emily Rau R11. Willa Cather and Others 1 - Chair: John Jacobs Halpin 222 3:15 p.m. T9. Farms, Mills, Food - Halpin 226 Panelists: Kelsey Squire, Lisbeth Panelists: Ann Romines, Steven Fuisz, and Sallie Ketcham Shively, and Tracy Tucker Chair: Andrew Jewell Chair: Daryl Palmer R12. Willa Cather and Others 2 - T10. Panel: Teaching Cather with Halpin 226 Diverse Student Populations - Panelists: John Jacobs and Halpin 222 Hannah Wells Panelists: Timothy Cramer, Todd Chair: Mary Ruth Ryder Richardson, Kelsey Squire, and 10:45 a.m. Concurrent Sessions Charles Peek. R13. Africanist Presences - Halpin 222 Chair: Julie Olin-Ammentorp Panelists: Mark Robison, Tracyann 4:30 p.m. Graduate Student Mixer- Glory Days Williams, and Barry Hudek Grill (off-campus), 130 Featherbed Lane Chair: Richard Millington 6:00 p.m. Dinner with the Cather Relatives R14. Unsettling Ántonia - Halpin 226 Join us at the Campus Dining Center Panelists: Aimee Allard, Patti as we welcome members of the Burris, and K.E. Daft Virginia Cather family to our Chair: Ashley Olson gathering! 12:15 p.m. Lunch 8:00 p.m. P3. Keynote Address - Stimpson Auditorium 1:30 p.m. P4. Plenary - Stimpson Auditorium “Unsettling Citizenship: Racial Dislocations Naturalization and Dispossession “Willa Cather and the Harlem in Cather’s Time,” Renaissance,” Zita Nunes Siobhan B. Somerville “Ambivalent Geographies: Race, Wednesday, June 19, 2019 Work, and the Potomac in Sapphira and the Slave Girl,” I got off the train, just behind the Capitol building . . . . After Christin Taylor I had walked about a little and seen the parks, so green . . . I Chair: Joseph Urgo decided to put off my business for a little and give myself a week to enjoy the city. . . . For that week I was wonderfully happy. ~ The Professor’s House 8:30 a.m. Board buses for Washington, D.C. Connectivity: Buses will load at Student Center

We have timed passes for the National Museum of African American History & Culture and will enter Network Name: 4SU together. Other museums on the Washington Mall Guest Username: AECSummer are open admission and free. Visit at your leisure. Password: AEC$ummer Meals in Washington, D.C., will be on your own. See list for suggestions. They took out their sewing or knitting from the carpetbag, and F20. Cather’s Lives - Halpin 226 while the pound cake or the marble cake was baking in a slow Panelists: Timothy Bintrim, Laurie oven, they talked about old times. I was allowed to sit with them Weber, and Melissa Homestead and sew patchwork. Sometimes their talk was puzzling, but I Chair: John Flannigan soon learned that it was best never to interrupt with questions,—it seemed to break the spell. 3:00 p.m. P5. Wild for Willa: Celebrating ~ Sapphira and the Slave Girl New and Forthcoming Critical 3:15 p.m. Museum of the Shenandoah and Creative Work - Stimpson Auditorium Reading by Sue Hallgarth, author of Valley and the Handley Library On the Rocks and Death Comes, and Enjoy a special Cather quilt presentation with museum curator, Nicholas Powers, and Mary brief presentations by authors of Robare, expert in Quaker quilts. Afterward, forthcoming Cather books. explore the museum and library (for Cather Chair: Marilee Lindemann scholars, a rich repository), and an evening in Lemonade and cookies served Old Town and dinner on your own. Seminar Banquet and Program - Ferrari Room Shenandoah vans will shuttle seminarians to the museum and back to campus. The last shuttle is expected to run at 9 p.m. This new generation was gayer and more carefree than their forbears, perhaps because they had fewer traditions to live up to. Friday, June 21, 2019 ~ Epilogue, Sapphira and the Slave Girl

9:00 a.m. Concurrent Sessions 6:30 p.m. Hobnobbing F15. Considering Creativity - Halpin 226 Enjoy a glass of wine and lively Panelists: Joshua Dolezal and conversation with your Cather colleagues Chris Wolak before our evening program begins. Chair: Todd Richardson 7:00 p.m. “Black Voices and Black F16. Tuning In to Linguistic Silences in Sapphira and Diversity - Halpin 222 the Slave Girl” Panelists: Francesca White and Barbara Davis, singer Andrew Wu Chair: Joseph Murphy 7:30 p.m. Dinner service 10:15 a.m. Concurrent Sessions 8:30 p.m. Bluegrass music by Patent Pending F17. Hastily, Cather: Letters and Writing - Halpin 222 Panelists: Gayle Rocz and Simone Droge, and Jane Elkin, joined by the Complete Letters editors Optional Activities Chair: Ann Romines Saturday, June 22, 2019

F18. Literary Trends and Techniques - 9:00 a.m. Old Town Farmers’ Market, Halpin 226 to with local musicians, on Panelists: Jace Gatzmeyer and 1:00 p.m. Old Town Pedestrian Mall Sonja Lynch Chair: James Jaap 9:30 a.m. Special services at historic 12:00 p.m. Lunch Christ Episcopal Church, 104 West Boscawen St. 1:00 p.m. Concurrent Sessions attended by Cather relatives and featured F19. Peripheries in The in Sapphira and the Slave Girl. Services Professor’s House - Halpin 222 conducted by the Rev. Charles Peek Panelists: William Gonch, Peter Cather scholar. Mallios, and Jeannette Schollaert Chair: Kimberly Vanderlaan Afternoon Explore local sites and attractions on your own. Jim Barnett Park

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1. Aikens Athletic Center - Athletic offices, Gladys Quarles Athletic 17. Goodson Chapel-Recital Hall - Chapel, Classrooms, 33. Racey Hall - Student Residence Hall, Mary M. Wilkins Training facilities, Toan Strength & Fitness Center Spiritual Life Offices Wellness Center 2. Allen Dining Hall - Clement Board Room, Huntsberry Room 18. Gore Hall - Student Residence Hall 34. Romine Living Center - Student Resident Hall 3. Alson H. Smith, Jr. Library - EUB Archives, Institutional 19. Gregory Hall - College of Arts & Sciences, Faculty Offices, 35. Roni’s Roost - Student Residence Hall Computing Center for Teaching, Learning & Technology, classrooms, labs, Center for Public Service & Scholarship 36. Ruebush Hall - Shenandoah Conservatory Classrooms, Faculty Academic Computing Technology 20. Halpin-Harrison Hall - Harry F. Byrd, Jr. School of Business, Offices, Practice Rooms, Scene Shop, Costume Shop, Recording 4. Armory Building Faculty Offices, Classrooms, Stimpson Auditorium Studio, Mac lab, Glaize Studio Theatre 5. Armstrong Hall - Armstrong Concert Hall, Conservatory 21. Harry F. Aikens Field - Practice Field 37. Sarah’s Glen - Gardens, The Labyrinth Faculty Studios 22. Health Professions Building (1775 N. Sector Dr., Winchester 38. Shenandoah River Campus at Cool Spring Battlefield 6. Bowman Building (20 S. Cameron St., downtown) - School of Medical Center) - Bernard J. Dunn School of Pharmacy, Physician 39. Scholar Plaza (Ste. 100 Leesburg, VA 20176) - Nursing, Education & Human Development, Purchasing & Accounts Assitant Studies, Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy Education, Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy, Payable, Accounting, Payroll 23. Health & Life Sciences Building - Athletic Training, Eleanor Master of Business Administration 7. Brandt Student Center - S Ferrari Room, Food Court, Bookstore, Wade Custer School of Nursing, Respiratory Care, Science Labs 40. Solenberger Hall - (141 N. Loudoun St., downtown) Student McKown Plaza, Campus Mail, Student Life offices 24. Howe Hall - College of Arts & Sciences classrooms, Academic Residence Hall 8. Caruthers House - Student Residence Hall Enrichment Center, Writing Center, Institutional Computing, 41. Sprint Field at Shentel Stadium & Charles A. Ricketts Press Box 9. Cooley Hall - Residence Life, Counseling Center, Career Services, Help Desk 42. Shingleton Hall - Athletics Department, Gymnasium, Center for International Programs, [Not Just] Women’s Center, 25. Inova Center for Personalized Health (ICPH) (3225 Gallows Rd, Classroom, Fitness and Weight Training, Ewing Dance Studio, Shenandoah Greenworks. Fairfax) - Nursing, Public Health, Pharmacy, Genomics Shingleton Dance Space, Physical Plant Office 10. Child Care Center 26. Intramural Field - Track & Field Practice Field, Intramural Sports 43. The Rock - Practice Field 11. Davis Hall - Classrooms, Faculty Offices, Winchester-Frederick, 27. James R. Wilkins, Jr. Athletics & Events Center - 44. Vickers Communication Center - Office of Marketing County Visitors Center 28. John Kerr Building (203 S. Cameron St. downtown) - Communications, TV studio, classroom 12. East Campus Commons - Student Residence Hall Shenandoah Conservatory Arts Academy 45. University Inn - Student Residence Hall 13. Edwards Residential Village - Student Residence Hall 29. Maintenance Shop 46. Wilkins Administration Building - President’s Office, Academic, 14. Kathryn Perry-Werner End Zone Building 30. Mary M. Henkel Hall - College of Arts & Sciences classrooms, Affairs, Admissions, Hornet Central (Registrar, Student Accounts, 15. Feltner Building (9 Court Square, downtown) - Advancement, Faculty Offices, Hester Auditorium, Byrd Board Room Financial Aid, Accounts Receivable), Department of Public Safety, Alumni Affairs 31. Ohrstrom-Bryant Theatre - Box Office Enrollment Management & Student Success, Auxiliary Services, 16. Funkhouser Hall - Student Residence Hall 32. Parker Hall - Student Residence Hall Human Resources, Institutional Research, Finance & Administration

KEY Admissions Visitor Parking Preferred Visitor Parking Areas Emergency Phone Visitor Parking University Building Department of Public Safety Court Square Autopark (Paid Parking) Real street lengths have been shortened Admissions Presenters, cont’d Steve Shively, Utah State University (T9) “The Mutability of ‘Weevily Wheat’” Guy Reynolds, University of Nebraska–Lincoln (P2) Shively is Professor of English at Utah State University and co-editor “Haptic Narrative: Touch, Violence, and Disability in of Teaching the Works of Willa Cather. He is an issue editor of the Sapphira and the Slave Girl” Willa Cather Review and a member of the Willa Cather Foundation Reynolds is Professor of English at the University of Nebraska- Board of Governors. Lincoln, and the director of the Cather Project. He is the general editor of the Cather Scholarly Editions, and has both edited and Kelsey Squire, Ohio Dominican University contributed to Cather Studies volumes. (T10) “Teaching Cather in a Diverse Classroom” (R11) “‘The Language He Used Survived in the Law’: Todd Richardson, University of Nebraska at Omaha Differences and Dislocations in My Ántonia and (T10) “Teaching My Ántonia as Participatory Culture” The Round House” Richardson is Associate Professor in the Goodrich Scholarship Squire is Associate Professor of English at Ohio Dominican Program and teaches American folklore and literature through UNO’s University in Columbus, Ohio. She teaches courses in first-year English department. Research interests include creative thinking and writing and American literature. Her work on Cather has appeared in community, and the life and work of Willa Cather. Publications Great Plains Quarterly, Cather Studies, and the Willa Cather Review. include The Journal of American Folklore, and The Writer’s Chronicle. Tracy Sanford Tucker, National Willa Cather Center (T9) Mark Robison, Union College (R13) “‘The Very Furrows of the Soil’: A Farm Novelist “Africanist Presence in Cather’s Fiction: Toni and her Farms” Morrison’s Critique of Cather” Since 2012 Tucker has served as education director and archivist, Robison is Professor of English and Chair of Humanities at Union overseeing the National Willa Cather Center collections. Her research College in Lincoln, Nebraska. His publications include Great Plains interests include Cather, Great Plains and rural literature, and the Quarterly, the Willa Cather Review, and Cather Studies. physical and culural landscape of the Plains. She is an Affiliate Fellow of the Center for Great Plains Studies. Gayle Rocz, University of Nebraska–Lincoln (F17) “Unveiling Cather: Making Her Voice Accessible and Siobhan B. Somerville, University of Illinois (P3) Reorienting Our Lens” “Unsettling Citizenship: Naturalization and Rocz is an undergraduate at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Dispossession in Cather’s Time” majoring in English and Dance. She has contributed to the Daily See bio, page 2. Nebraskan, interned at Prairie Schooner, and is actively involved in UNL’s Dance Program. Her academic interests include research in Christin Taylor, Shenandoah University (P4) feminist pedagogy for dance and the emerging field of youth “Ambivalent Geographies: Race, Work, and the competitive dance in the United States. Potomac in Sapphira and the Slave Girl” See bio, page 2. Ann Romines, George Washington University, emerita (P1) “African American Life in Sapphira and the Slave Girl: Joseph Urgo, Interim Chancellor of University of New Perspectives from Archeology and History” North Carolina Asheville (P4, chair) (T9) “The Double Bind of Southern Food in Sapphira and Urgo is a long-time Cather scholar and co-author of Willa Cather and the the Slave Girl” American Southwest. Romines is Professor Emerita at The George Washington University Kim Vanderlaan, California University of Pennsylvania and the author or editor of several books and many essays on Willa (M2) “Psychic Dislocation in Cather’s Novels of the 1920s” Cather. She is a member of the Board of Governors of the Willa Vanderlaan is Associate Professor of English at California University of Cather Foundation, an editor of the Willa Cather Review, and Pennsylvania. She boasts an impressive list of publications on Cather, co-director of this Virginia Seminar. Wharton, and James, and is currently co-editing Cather Studies 13. Mary Ruth Ryder, South Dakota State University, emerita (M3) “More Than a Clash of Wills: Tuckahoe and Laurie Weber, University of Nebraska–Lincoln (F20) Cohee Culture in Sapphira and the Slave Girl” “Willa Cather: Highbrow by Association” Weber is a graduate student at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Ryder is Distinguished Professor of English Emerita, South Dakota her research interests include Cather’s early readers, particularly State University. Her numerous publications on Cather include Willa general readers and family members. Cather and the Classical Myth: The Search for a New Parnassus (1990) and essays in Cather Studies and the Willa Cather Review. Elizabeth Wells, Hobart and William Smith Unsettling Performance: Disability as Jeannette Schollaert, University of Maryland (F19) Colleges (T7) “ “Coming, Mother Eve!: Unsettling Indigenous and Critique of Aesthetic Power in Cather’s Works” Aztec Lore in Cather’s Fiction” Wells is a 2019 Woodress Scholar and earned her PhD in English at Louisiana State University. She is an instructor in Writing and Rhetoric Schollaert studies twentieth-century American women’s literature at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, where she is also a post-doctoral and feminist and ecofeminist theory. She is a doctoral student at the research fellow. Her research interests include the representation of University of Maryland. disability in Willa Cather’s oeuvre. Steve Shively, Utah State University (T9) Presenters, cont’d “The Mutability of ‘Weevily Wheat’” Shively is Professor of English at Utah State University and co-editor Hannah Wells, Baylor University (R12) of Teaching the Works of Willa Cather. He is an issue editor of the “‘Keen Senses Do Not Make a Poet’: Cather’s Save the date! Willa Cather Review and a member of the Willa Cather Foundation Respectful Rebellion Against Whitman in O Pioneers!” Board of Governors. Wells is a PhD student in English at Baylor University, specializing in June 4–6, 2020 early American literature. Her current work centers on the poetry of Kelsey Squire, Ohio Dominican University the American Civil War and considers the interdisciplinary “Teaching Cather in a Diverse Classroom” (T10) connections between literature, religion, philosophy, and politics in (R11) “‘The Language He Used Survived in the Law’: the writing of that era and beyond. Join us in Red Cloud as we Differences and Dislocations in My Ántonia and The Round House” Francesca White, University of Leicester (F16) revisit the short stories of Squire is Associate Professor of English at Ohio Dominican “‘Rosicky asked her in Czech […]. She replied in University in Columbus, Ohio. She teaches courses in first-year English’: Who Speaks What Language to Whom and Youth and the Bright Medusa writing and American literature. Her work on Cather has appeared in Where in Cather’s Fiction?” at the century mark! Great Plains Quarterly, Cather Studies, and the Willa Cather Review. White is a PhD student at the University of Leicester studying multilingualism in Cather’s fiction. In 2017, she received the BAAS Tracy Sanford Tucker, National Willa Cather Center (T9) Malcolm Bradbury Award to fund research at the archives in Red “‘The Very Furrows of the Soil’: A Farm Novelist Our 65th annual Willa Cather Spring Cloud, and in 2018 she presented on Cather at the International Willa and her Farms” Cather Symposium in Northern Ireland and the University of Oxford’s Conference promises to be a lovely Since 2012 Tucker has served as education director and archivist, Rothermere Institute for American Studies. She is Editorial Assistant overseeing the National Willa Cather Center collections. Her research and lively affair, as The New Yorker’s for Cambridge University Press’s Journal of American Studies. interests include Cather, Great Plains and rural literature, and the Alex Ross returns to Red Cloud to physical and culural landscape of the Plains. She is an Affiliate Fellow Tracyann F. Williams, The New School (R13) of the Center for Great Plains Studies. “Willa Cather’s State of the Union: Sapphira and the give a keynote address, surrounded Slave Girl” by groundbreaking original art Siobhan B. Somerville, University of Illinois (P3) Williams earned her PhD and M. Phil. in English from The Graduate “Unsettling Citizenship: Naturalization and exhibits and thoughtful scholarship, Center/City University of New York. She also holds a Certificate in Dispossession in Cather’s Time” Women’s Studies. Before becoming the Director of Academic Affairs, new museum exhibits, and a special See bio, page 2. she was full-time faculty for 13 years at The New School. She has also Red Cloud Opera House performance Christin Taylor, Shenandoah University (P4) taught Composition and Literature at LaGuardia College/ City Univer- “Ambivalent Geographies: Race, Work, and the sity of New York. Her current research focuses on mixed race women —details to come. Potomac in Sapphira and the Slave Girl” in modern fictions. She was awarded a Helena Rubenstein Foundation See bio, page 2. fellowship and the Distinguished University Teaching Award from The New School in 2004. Joseph Urgo, Interim Chancellor of University of 2020 Conference directors are: North Carolina Asheville (P4, chair) Chris Wolak, Independent (F15) Diane Prenatt, Marian University, emerita “Loneliness, Isolation, Solitude: Cather’s Creative Urgo is a long-time Cather scholar and co-author of Willa Cather and the Elaine Smith, University of South Florida American Southwest. Women” Wolak was bitten by the Cather bug as an undergraduate in the Kim Vanderlaan, California University of Pennsylvania periodicals department of her college library. The resulting fever led (M2) “Psychic Dislocation in Cather’s Novels of the 1920s” her to graduate studies with Sue Rosowski at UNL. Since leaving the A call for papers will be issued in Vanderlaan is Associate Professor of English at California University of academic world, Chris has been spreading Cather fever as a bookseller, Pennsylvania. She boasts an impressive list of publications on Cather, blogger, and now on her podcast, The Book Cougars. August 2019. Wharton, and James, and is currently co-editing Cather Studies 13. Andrew Wu, Univeresity of Pennsylvania (F16) Laurie Weber, University of Nebraska–Lincoln (F20) “‘Blue sky, blue eyes’: Multilingualism, Identity and We’ll see you then! “Willa Cather: Highbrow by Association” Dislocation in My Ántonia” Weber is a graduate student at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Wu is a doctoral student in Educational Linguistics at the University of her research interests include Cather’s early readers, particularly Pennsvylvania. general readers and family members. Yohei Yamamoto, Meiji University (T6) Elizabeth Wells, Hobart and William Smith “Cather’s Urban Imagination” Colleges (T7) “Unsettling Performance: Disability as Yamamoto is Senior Assistant Professor of American Literature at Critique of Aesthetic Power in Cather’s Works” Meiji University in Tokyo. His research interests include the literature Wells is a 2019 Woodress Scholar and earned her PhD in English at of environmental ethics, Transcendentalism, and ecocriticism, with Louisiana State University. She is an instructor in Writing and Rhetoric special concern given to Thoreau, Melville, and Cather. at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, where she is also a post-doctoral research fellow. Her research interests include the representation of disability in Willa Cather’s oeuvre. “The City from Greenwich Village,” John Sloan, 1922. Public domain.

Willa Cather lived most of her professional writing life in Save this date! New York (1906-1947), first in Greenwich Village and later, after she had risen to the top of the literary profession, on JUNE 24–27, 2021 Park Avenue on the upper east side. Though Cather seldom wrote about the city, it was her home for nearly forty years 18th international and a key element of her personal and professional life. CATHER SEMINAR We propose to hold the 18th International Cather Seminar right in the neighborhood where Cather lived between 1906-1932: Greenwich Village. In collaboration with The New School, we THE NEW SCHOOL want to create a conference that explores the city Willa Cather NEW YORK, NEW YORK knew, but also the city that was present around her, though perhaps not always visible to her. The goal is to intellectually locate Cather in the broader context of New York in the first Conference leadership: half of the twentieth century, and, further, to imagine her work as a product of that urban experience. Andy Jewell, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Charmion Gustke, Belmont University Carolyn Berman, The New School Tracy Tucker, National Willa Cather Center