NEWS:

1) Call for papers for the 2007 MLA Convention in Chicago.

The Fuller Society is organizing two panels. Please address inquiries to each panel's organizer.

International Margaret Fuller: Transatlantic and Global Circulations.
Fuller on transnational movements of culture and ideas, New York and global economies, (im)migrations, republicanisms, the Mexican War, her translations. Comparative approaches welcome. 2-page abstracts, CVs by 15 Mar. to Brigitte Bailey (Brigitte.Bailey@unh.edu).

Fuller and the Politics of Everyday Life.
Political resonance of the personal, everyday, and experiential. The critical role of narratives (mythical, ideological, travel), dialogues, translations, and multiple discourses. 2-page abstracts, CVs, March 15, Jeffrey Steele (jsteele@wisc.edu).

2) Fuller panels at the upcoming 2007 ALA Conference in Boston

Fuller, the New-York Tribune, and Prison Reform
(Chair: Larry J. Reynolds)

Sean Egan, “Gardens and Grasses: Elitism and Egalitarianism in Margaret Fuller’s Literary Criticism”

Karen Roggenkamp, “Margaret in the Marketplace: Fuller’s Prison Articles, Sentimentalism, and the Profession of Journalism”

Brigitte Bailey, “Fuller, Sedgwick, and Prison Reform in New York”

Transcendentalism and the Female Voice, Body, and Self
(Chair: Kimberly V. Adams)

Derek Pacheco, “‘Conversations of a Better Order’: Fuller, Emerson, and the Dial”

C. Michael Hurst, “Bodies in Translation: Transcendental Feminism in Margaret Fuller’s Woman in the Nineteenth Century”

Jeffrey Steele, “Keys to the ‘Labyrinth of My Own Being’: Margaret Fuller’s Epistolary Invention of the Self”

3)               The Margaret Fuller Society

                 Announces its participation in the
  19th-Century American Women Writers in England Conference
                     Oxford, July 2008

The Fuller Society is joining other womens’ author societies in planning a conference in Oxford, England, on transatlanticism and 19th-century American women writers.  Sponsored by the Harriet Beecher Stowe Society, the Catharine Maria Sedgwick Society, the Margaret Fuller Society, and the Elizabeth Stoddard Society, the conference will take place July 16-20 2008, at the Rothermere American Institute, which promotes the interdisciplinary and comparative study of the United States. Conference organizers, in a future call for papers, will be interested in proposals on writers who traveled to England and elsewhere in Europe, wrote about Europe, or were influenced by European writers. 

Those who wish to be added to an email list for information about the conference may contact the conference director and president of the Stowe Society, Professor Beth L. Lueck, at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, at lueckb@uww.edu. Questions may also go to the president of the Fuller Society, Professor Brigitte Bailey University of New Hampshire,
at Brigitte.Bailey@unh.edu. 

We hope to see you in Oxford in 2008.