Interview with Southern Review of Books
Read this interview to learn more about how the idea for my new book, Belles and Poets (LSU Press, 2020), was born and why the diarists Sarah Morgan and Mary Chesnut impressed me most during my research.
Author: Julia Nitz
Call for Papers: Crosscurrents Conversation Series (June/July 2021) by the Intercontinental Crosscurrents Network
The current dual crises of the global CV-19 pandemic and the (also global) renewed struggle for racial justice have turned our attention to women worldwide whose critically important service roles bring to mind and expand on their similar occupations in the long nineteenth century. Women comprise the majority of the workforce that has been deemed … [Read more…]
Southern Ghosts of Christmas Past: Guest Blogging for LSU Press Blog
In light of the holiday season, I revisited some of the texts that I discuss in my new book Belles and Poets: Intertextuality in the Civil War Diaries of White Southern Women (LSU Press, 2020) to explore how women during the late 1800s lived and interpreted their lives during the holidays. To read the blog … [Read more…]
Teacher Training: Current Issues of American Culture in the EFL Classroom: American Studies Seminar 2020
This year, our American Studies Seminar will take place for the twenty-third time, but for the first time as an online seminar. This year’s topics spans lectures (Part I, Nov. 27, 2020) on contemporary Native American protest in the context of environmental justice, the US ‘monument wars’, Black Lives Matter in the classroom, as well as teaching inspiration … [Read more…]