The next session of the A19 seminar series (VALE / LARCA) will take place on 11.10.2024 (2-4 pm) at Université Paris Cité, Olympe de Gouges Building, Room 830 and via Zoom.

Ellen Gruber Garvey will give a paper entitled: “Why Were They Missing? Recovering Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Writings on Slavery beyond the Civil War”

Ellen Gruber Garvey is Professor Emerita of English at New Jersey City University where she taught English and Women’s and Gender Studies and edited the semi-annual Transformations: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy on approaches to university teaching. She is the author of Writing with Scissors: American Scrapbooks from the Civil War to the Harlem Renaissance. (Oxford UP, 2013) and The Adman in the Parlor: Magazines and the Gendering of Consumer Culture 1880s-1910s (Oxford UP, 1996). Her research engages race and gender in late nineteenth and early twentieth century US print culture through periodicals – readers’ reuse of them in scrapbooks their organization and resale recovering and analyzing little-known stories published in them. She is Vice President of the Society for the Study of American Women Writers.