“From Pastoral to Georgic in Alfred and Emily<\/em>: a Call to Ecological Commitment.” Doris Lessing 2014: An International Conference. Plymouth England, Sept. 12-13, 2014.<\/p>\n \u201cZadie Smith\u2019s NW: \u2018\u2019Minor Literature\u2019 from a Major Author? 23rd Annual British Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies Conference.\u00a0 Savannah, Ga. Feb. 14-15,\u00a0 2014.<\/p>\n \u201cFrom Dresses to Insects: Virginia Woolf\u2019s \u2018The New Dress\u2019 and Doris Lessing\u2019s Alfred and Emily.\u201d 23rd Annual International Virginia Woolf Conference: Virginia Woolf and (Common)wealth Writers.\u201d Simon Fraser University. Vancouver, B.C. Canada. June 6-9, 2013.<\/p>\n \u201cEngland\u2019s \u2018greenandpleasantlibertarianlandofthefree\u2019: Zadie Smith\u2019s and Doris Lessing\u2019s Portrayal of Black British Attitudes Toward Rural England.\u201d 22nd Annual British Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies Conference. Savannah, Ga. Feb. 15-16,\u00a0 2013.<\/p>\n \u201cDoris Lessing\u2019s Use of Food as Postcolonial Critique in In Pursuit of the English, The Summer Before the Dark, and Alfred and Emily.\u201d 21st Annual British Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies Conference. Savannah, Ga. Feb. 17-18, 2012.<\/p>\n \u201c\u2019Being here\u2019: Doris Lessing\u2019s Alfred and Emily, a Postmodern Memoir of Loss And Place.\u201d 20th Annual British Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies Conference. Savannah, Ga. Feb. 25-26, 2011.<\/p>\n \u201cHouse and Garden in Mrs. Dalloway: Patriarchal and Heterotopic Spaces.\u201d 20th Annual International Virginia Woolf Conference: Virginia Woolf and the Natural World. Georgetown College, Georgetown, Ky. June 3-6, 2010.<\/p>\n \u201cHeterotopic Gardens: Anita Desai\u2019s Clear Light of Day and Virginia Woolf\u2019s Mrs. Dalloway. \u201c 19th Annual British Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies Conference. Savannah, Ga. \u201cCosmopolitanism from Below in Virginia Woolf\u2019s Mrs. Dalloway and \u201cStreet Haunting.\u201d 19th Annual International Virginia Woolf Conference: Woolf and the City. Fordham University, New York, N.Y. June 4-7. 2009.<\/p>\n \u201cPostcolonial Fl\u00e2ners and Calypsonians: Sam Salvon\u2019s London Men and Their Attitudes Towards Women.\u201d 18th Annual British Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies Conference. Savannah, Ga. Feb. 27-28, 2009.<\/p>\n \u201cRepressed Racism in Doris Lessing\u2019s \u2018Victoria and the Staveney\u2019s.\u2019\u201d 17th Annual British Commonwealth and Postclonial Studies Conference. Savannah, Ga. Feb. 15-16, 2008.<\/p>\n \u201cIn Pursuit of the English: Hybridity and the Local in Lessing\u2019s First Urban Text.\u201d Second International Doris Lessing Conference. Leeds Metropolitan University.\u00a0Leeds, England. July 6-8, 2007.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Return to \u2018Hijab\u2019 in Nadine Gordimer\u2019s The Pick-Up and Leila Aboulela\u2019s\u00a0 Minaret.\u201d16th Annual British Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies Conference. Savannah, Ga. Feb.16-17, 2007.<\/p>\n \u201cZadie Smith\u2019s White Teeth: a Postcolonial City Novel.\u201d 15th Annual British Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies Conference. Savannah, Ga. Feb. 24-25, 2006.<\/p>\n \u201cMadness in Joan Riley\u2019s A Kindness to the Children.\u201d 13th Annual British Commonwealth\u00a0 and Postcolonial Studies Conference. Savannah, Ga. Feb. 27-28, 2004.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Search for Place in Barbara Burford\u2019s \u2018The Pinstripe Summer\u2019: Lesbianism as Allegory, Eclogue or Speculative Fiction.\u201d 12th Annual British Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies Conference. Savannah, Ga. Feb. 27-28, 2003.<\/p>\n \u201cPatterns of Aging in the Ninth Stage of Life: Doris Lessing\u2019s The Diary of a Good Neighbour.\u201d Modern Language Association Convention. NewYork, NY\u00a0 Dec. 27-30, 2002.<\/p>\n \u201cVirginia Woolf\u2019s Mrs. Dalloway: a Foreshadowing of the Critique of Architectural Modernism.\u201d South Atlantic Modern Language Association Convention. Baltimore, Md. Nov. 15-17, 2002.<\/p>\n \u201cA \u2018Postcolonial\u2019 Erikson and Paule Marshall\u2019s Praisesong for the Widow.\u201d Eleventh Annual British Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies Conference. Savannah, Ga. Feb. 22-23, 2002.<\/p>\n \u201cEngland no be my Country\u2019: What is the Role of Pidgin in Ken Saro-Wiwa\u2019s Sozaboy and Buchi Emecheta\u2019s Kehinde.\u201d Modern Language Association Convention. New Orleans, La. \u201cVoyaging through \u2018Contested Cultural Territories\u2019 in Virginia Woolf\u2019s Mrs. Dalloway and Anita Desai\u2019s Clear Light of Day.\u201d Voyages Out, Voyages Home: Eleventh Annual International Virginia Woolf Conference. Bangor, Wales. June 13-16, 2001.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Contested Territories of \u2018Womanliness\u2019 and Nation in Anita Desai\u2019s Clear Light of\u00a0 Day.\u201d10th Annual British Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies Conference. Savannah, Ga. Feb. 22-24, 2001.<\/p>\n \u201cRace, Class and Gender Issues in Narratives by Two Jamaican-British Writers: Barbara Burford and Joan Riley.\u201d Narrative: an International Conference. Atlanta, Ga. Apr. 6-9, 2000.<\/p>\n \u201c\u2018There\u2019s Always Someone Nobody Remembers\u2019\u201d: Faded Photos and Curling Posters in Nadine Gordimer\u2019s None to Accompany Me.\u201d Ninth Annual British Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies Conference. Savannah, Ga. Feb. 24-26, 2000.<\/p>\n “The Search for Identity in Two \u2018Black British\u2019 Women Writers: Barbara Burford\u2019s The Threshing “At the Labyrinth\u2019s Center in Murdoch’s The Green Knight: Peter Mir as Wandering Jew, Minotaur or Green Knight.” Twentieth Century Literature Conference. University of Louisville, February 25-27, 1999.<\/p>\n “Postcolonial Journeys in Buchi Emecheta’s Kehinde and Jessica Anderson’s Tirra Lirra By the River.” Seventh Annual Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies Conference, Georgia\u00a0 Southern University, Stateboro, Ga.\u00a0 May 8-9, 1998.<\/p>\n “Traditional and Colonized Mothers in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions and Anita Desai’s\u00a0 Clear Light of Day.” Mothers and Daughters: Moving into the Next Millennium. York Univ. Toronto, Canada, Sept. 26-28, 1997.<\/p>\n “Virginia Woolf and African Sculpture.” Virginia Woolf and the Fine Arts, the Sixth Annual Virginia Woolf Conference. Clemson University, South Carolina, June 13-16, 1996.<\/p>\n “Postcolonial Journeys of Discovery and Life Review in Paule Marshall’s Praisesong for The Widow and Jessica Anderson’s Tirra Lirra by the River.” Literary Perspectives on Aging. Northeast\u00a0 Modern Language Assoc. (NEMLA). Montreal, Canada. Apr. 19-20, 1996.<\/p>\n “Kerewin Holmes’ Voyage of Initiation in The Bone People.” Vixens, Virgins and Voyagers: Gendered Representation of Women’s Initiation,\u00a0 Women’s Caucus Workshop I Seminar A. South Atlantic Modern Language Assoc. (SAMLA) Atlanta, Ga. Nov. 3-5, 1995.<\/p>\n “Virginia Woolf and Racism.” Virginia Woolf: Texts and Contexts, the Fifth Annual Virginia Woolf Conference. Otterbein College, Westerville, Ohio. June 15-18, 1995.<\/p>\n “Buchi Emecheta’s Kehinde: the Conflict\u00a0 Between Cultures.” Cultural Encounters Across\u00a0the Mediterranean: Palestine and Europe, the Fourth Annual Bir Zeit Conference. Bir Zeit\u00a0University.\u00a0 Ramallah, Palestine. Mar. 9-11, 1995.<\/p>\n “From the Isolation of Childbirth to the Search for Community: Nativity and\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Multiculturalism in the\u00a0 Novels of Margaret Drabble and Buchi Emecheta.” Nativity and\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Narrativity: Multicultural Frameworks of Literature, the Fifth Annual Conference on\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Narrativity. Vancouver B.C. Canada. Apr. 28-May 1, 1994.<\/p>\n “‘Not Enough Washing Up ‘ or ‘Luminous:’ Margaret\u00a0 Drabble’s Ambivalence about Virginia\u00a0\u00a0 Woolf.” Virginia Woolf: Emerging Perspectives, the Third Annual Virginia Woolf\u00a0 Conference. Lincoln University. Lincoln, Mo. June 10-13 1993.<\/p>\n “Maps of Misreading, Voyages of Discovery: Caliban in the Afrocentric Curriculum.”\u00a0Seminar on “Race, Ethnicity and Power in Shakespeare and his Contemporaries.”\u00a0Shakespeare Association of America. Atlanta, Ga. April 1-3, 1993.<\/p>\n “Architectural References and Time in Penelope\u00a0 Lively’s City of the Mind.” Northeastern\u00a0\u00a0 Modern Language Association Convention. Philadelphia, Pa., Mar. 26-28, 1993.<\/p>\n \u201c\u2018The ‘Outsider Within’: Virginia Woolf and Doris Lessing as Urban Novelists in Mrs.\u00a0Dalloway and The Four-Gated City.” Modern Language Assoc.\u00a0 Convention. New York,\u00a0\u00a0Dec. 27-30, 1992.<\/p>\n “A Portrait of Virginia Woolf in Maureen Duffy’s ‘A Nightingale in Bloomsbury Square.'”\u00a0\u00a0Virginia\u00a0 Woolf: Themes and Variations, the Second Annual Virginia Woolf Conference.\u00a0\u00a0Univ. of Southern Conn. New Haven, June 11-13, 1992.<\/p>\n “Sexism and Feminism in the Emigrant Novels of Sam Selvon and Buchi Emecheta”\u00a0Twentieth Century Literature Conference. Univ. of Louisville. Louisville, Ky. Feb. 27-29, 1992.<\/p>\n “Neanderthals, Human Gorillas and Urban Guerrillas: Crossing Scientific Boundaries in\u00a0 Doris Lessing’s The Fifth Child and Maureen Duffy’s Gor Saga.” Contemporary Literature\u00a0\u00a0 Conference: Literature of the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s. Sponsored by\u00a0 Kennesaw College, Atlanta,\u00a0\u00a0Apr. 26-27, 1991.<\/p>\n “‘Denizens of Cosmopolis’: Samuel Selvon’s and\u00a0 Buchi Emecheta’s Caribbean and Nigerian\u00a0\u00a0 Perspectives on London” Northeast Modern Language Assoc. Hartford, Conn. Apr.5-7, 1991.<\/p>\n “A Place for Woman: Boston in Marge Piercy’s Fly Away Home” Twentieth Century\u00a0Literature Conference. Univ. of Louisville. Louisville, Ky. Feb. 22-24,1990.<\/p>\n “London in Margaret Drabble’s The Radiant Way” Contemporary Literature Conference: Literature of the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s. Kennesaw College, Atlanta, Apr. 14-15,\u00a01989.<\/p>\n “Phallic Towers and Intersubjective Space: Marge Piercy’s Going Down Fast.” Conference\u00a0\u00a0on Literature and Psychology. Institute for the Psychological Study of the Arts. Univ. of\u00a0 Florida, Gainesville, Fla. March 9-12, 1989.<\/p>\n “The Masculine Technology of Marge Piercy’s Going Down Fast.” Twentieth Century Literature Conference. Louisville, Ky. Feb. 25-27, 1988.<\/p>\n Panelist on a Session entitled “Making Connections between School and College Writing Programs” Conference entitled Georgia, Write Now: Making Connections, sponsored by Georgia State University. Jan. 30-31,1987.<\/p>\n “Taming of the Shrew: a Lesson in Autonomy,”English Section II (1500-1600), South\u00a0Atlantic Modern Language Assoc. (SAMLA) Atlanta, Ga. Nov. 13-15, 1986.<\/p>\n “Women’s Psyche: Nancy Chodorow, Carol Gilligan and Margaret Drabble.” Women’s Caucus Workshop I, SAMLA, Atlanta, Ga. Oct. 31-Nov. 2, 1985.<\/p>\n “Reading the City as Palimpsest: Doris Lessing’s\u00a0 The Four-Gated City.” English Section V, Modern British, SAMLA, Atlanta, Ga. Nov.\u00a0 11-13, 1982.<\/p>\n “Humanism and the Education of Women in the 16th and 17th Centuries.” Symposium III of “History Invites Women to Dinner,” a Conference\u00a0 sponsored by The Sculptural Arts Museum and Georgia State on the occasion of the exhibition of Judy Chicago’s The Dinner\u00a0 Party, Atlanta, Ga. Sept. 28, 1982.<\/p>\n “Taming of the Shrew and Women’s Studies.” Conference on Shakespeare in the Classroom: Text,\u00a0 Performance, Media. Univ. of Wisconsin-Parkside, Kenosha, Wisc. April 23-24, 1982.<\/p>\n “The Role of Women in Shakespeare’s Time and Plays.” Guest lecture at the High Museum, Atlanta, Ga.\u00a0 Part of the lecture series connected with the traveling Folger Shakespeare\u00a0 Library Exhibit funded by NEH. Mar. 15, 1981.<\/p>\n Discussant Leader, “Under What Circumstances Are Women’s Self-Expressions Perceived as Art?”\u00a0 Societal Roles Session IB of “A Fabric of Our Own Making: Southern Scholars\u00a0\u00a0 on Women,” Atlanta, Ga. Mar. 5, 1981.<\/p>\n “Ridgeway’s Militant Weekly and the Serial Version of Conrad’s The Secret Agent.” English\u00a0 Section IV, Victorian & Modern, SAMLA, Atlanta, Ga. Nov. 9-11, 1978.<\/p>\n “Cognitive Dissonance and the Anxiety Response to Kafka’s The Castle.” Southern\u00a0Comparative Literature Association Conference, The University of the South, Sewanee,\u00a0Tenn. Feb. 16-18, 1978.<\/p>\n “Winnie Verloc and the Paradoxical Images of Rationality and Irrationality” as part of a\u00a0seminar I organized on Joseph Conrad’s Secret Agent and Alfred Hitchcock’s Sabotage for “Rational\/Irrational: The Apollonian and Dionysian in Literature and Film,” The Florida State University Comparative Literature Conf. Tallahassee, Fla. Jan. 26-28, 1978.<\/p>\n “James Joyce’s Ulysses: a Celebration of the City.” Urban Literature Seminar, Modern Language Assoc. New York, N.Y. Dec. 28-30, 1976.<\/p>\n “Pioneering in Applied Humanities: Ways of Instituting Interdisciplinary Studies” Women’s\u00a0Caucus I, SAMLA, Atlanta, Ga. Nov. 4-6, 1976.<\/p>\n “Early Seventeenth-Century Advice Books: The Female Viewpoint,” Southeastern Renaissance Conference at VMI in Virginia, April 25-26, 1975.<\/p>\n Member of\u00a0 MLA and Women’s Caucus of MLA; SAMLA and Women’s Caucus of SAMLA; Southeastern Renaissance Society; International Virginia Woolf Assoc.; Doris Lessing Assoc.; Iris Murdoch Assoc.<\/p>\n 2003 Chair of British V Section on \u201cUrban Modernity and Postmodernity.\u201d SAMLA, Atlanta, Nov.\u00a0 14-16, 2003.<\/p>\n 1993 Chair of\u00a0 Section on “The British Novel: The Influence of Virginia Woolf on the British Novel.”\u00a0 NEMLA, Philadelphia, Pa. March 26-28, 1993.<\/p>\n 1987-89 Treasurer, SAMLA Women’s Caucus Chair, Room Arrangements Committee for Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC),\u00a0 Atlanta, March 19-21, 1987.<\/p>\n 1979-80 One of 4 SAMLA members on an advisory committee to choose sites for SAMLA.<\/p>\n 1980 Chair of SAMLA Women’s Caucus Workshop (I) “Women’s Issues in the Traditional Class,” Atlanta, Ga. Nov. 6, 1980.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Papers: “From Pastoral to Georgic in Alfred and Emily: a Call to Ecological Commitment.” Doris Lessing 2014: An International Conference. Plymouth England, Sept. 12-13, 2014. \u201cZadie Smith\u2019s NW: \u2018\u2019Minor Literature\u2019 from a Major Author? 23rd Annual British Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies Conference.\u00a0 Savannah, Ga. 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\nFloor and Joan Riley\u2019s Waiting in the Twilight.”Eighth Annual Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies Conference. Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, Ga. March 26-27, 1999.<\/p>\nProfessional Societies and Offices Held:<\/h1>\n