SEM A19/Frontières du littéraire, 6/03/2025: Alice de Galzain (SU), “Cultivating the Roots of Feminism: Health, Gender, and Reform at Brook Farm and the Fruitlands,” Université Paris Cité

A joint session of the Boundaries of Literature and A19 seminars (ECHELLES-UMR 8264 / VALE-UR 4085) will be held on March 6, 2025, from 04:30 to 06 pm (Paris), in room 830 of the Olympe de Gouges building at Université Paris Cité (8 pl. Paul Ricoeur, 75013) and on Zoom: https://u-paris.zoom.us/j/88247458026?pwd=2EkWgFbAewR637Fjgkdj0ZeqktYopI.1 (meeting ID: 882 4745 8026).

We’ll be pleased to welcome Alice de Galzain (Sorbonne Université), who will share her work through a presentation entitled: « Cultivating the Roots of Feminism: Health, Gender, and Reform at Brook Farm and the Fruitlands ». You can read a short abstract for her presentation at this address.

Alice de Galzain is a postdoctoral researcher at Sorbonne University. Her research project, entitled “Women Networks and Transcendentalist Utopias: Health, Gender, and Reform” (TransUTOPIA), aims to uncover the feminist subculture that existed within Transcendentalist utopias (Brook Farm and the Fruitlands). More broadly, Alice specializes in nineteenth-century American literature, with a focus on feminist women’s writing. She has taught American Literature at the University of Edinburgh and the University of Sussex, where she worked as Lecturer in American Studies and English. She is the Associate Editor of The Concord Saunterer: A Journal of Thoreau Studies and the Associate Editor of Margaret Fuller, Periodical and Other Writings, The Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Writings of Margaret Fuller. In 2022, her article “Transcendentalist Women in Conversation: Margaret Fuller, Sophia Ripley, and ‘Woman’” appeared in Transatlantica: American Studies Journal. More recently, her work on “Woman [and] Artist’: Margaret Fuller on Bettine Brentano-von Arnim and Friendship” was published in LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory, and she has an essay due to appear in Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers in the coming months.

We are looking forward to this discussion.

Warm regards,

The Boundaries of Literature and A19 teams.