Jennifer Tuttle chairs plenary session at American Women Writers of Color Conference

Jennifer Tuttle, Dorothy M. Healy Professor of Literature and Health and editor of Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers, chaired a plenary session sponsored by Legacy at the recent American Women Writers of Color Conference, November 1-3, 2013, in Ocean City, Maryland.

The session, on the theme of “The Racialized Private Text and African American Women’s Archives,” examined how private writing, such as letters and diaries, by women of color can illuminate, revise, or upend received narratives of American literature and history.

Presenting on the panel were Danielle Skeehan, Sam Houston State University, on “Black Atlantic Seamstresses and the Practice of Letters in the Early Caribbean;” Katie Simon, Georgia College, on “Harriet Wilson, the ‘Colored Medium,’ and the Problem of the Spiritualist Archive;” and Jennifer M. Wilks, University of Texas – Austin, on “Hidden in Plain Sight: Translating the French Language Diaries of Mary Church Terrell.”

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