Marcia Robertson
P.O. Box 49
Sweet Briar, VA 24595
434-381-6277
robertson@sbc.edu
TITLE
Associate Professor of English
EDUCATION
Ph.D. Washington University
Dissertation: Stowe, Jewett, and Cather: The Development of a Fiction of Place. Wayne Fields, Director.
M.A. Washington University
B.A. Augustana College
ADDITIONAL EDUCATION
PUBLICATIONS1995 - "Construction of Gender and the Experience of Women in American Indian Societies," January 9-14, 1995; sponsored by NEH/Newberry Library.
"Where the Truth Lies: Constructions of the Self in Bloodlines and Halfbreed." Occasional Papers in Curriculum Series; The Construction of Gender and the Experience of Women in American Indian Societies, Jan. 1996. 20: 278-89. D'Arcy McNickle Center for the Study of the American Indian.
Review of American Women Writers and the Work of History, 1790-1860 by Nina Baym. Nineteenth Century Studies 10 (1996): 146-48.
Review of Southern Mothers: Fact and Fictions in Southern Women's Writing, edited by Nagueyalti Warren and Sally Wolff. Forthcoming in Choice.
Review of Sentimental Men: Masculinity and the Politics of Affect in American Culture, edited by Mary Chapman and Glenn Hendler. Choice. 37:8 (Apr. 2000).
Review of Women's Lives Into Print: the Theory, Practice and Writing of Feminist Auto/biography, edited by Pauline Polkey. Choice (Mar. 2000).
Review of A Sarah Orne Jewett Companion by Robert L. Gale. Choice (Jan. 2000).
Review of A Hungry Heart: the Literary Emergence of Julia Ward Howe by Gary Williams. Choice 37:1 (Mar. 1999).
Review of Imagined Empires: Incas, Aztecs, and the New World of American Literature, 1771-1876 by Eric Wertheimer. Forthcoming in Choice.
Review of The Stuff of Our Forebears: Willa Cather's Southern Heritage by Joyce McDonald. Choice 36:3 (Nov. 1998).
Review of Twentieth-Century Southern Literature by J. A. Bryant, Jr. Choice 35:7 (Mar. 1998).
Review of Fettered for Life by Lillie Devereaux Black. Choice 34:10 (June 1997).
Review of Willa Cather in Context: Progress, Race, Empire by Guy Reynolds. Choice 34:2 (Oct. 1996).
Review of Native American Writing in the Southeast: An Anthology, 1875-1935, edited by Daniel F. Littlefield and James W. Parins. Choice (April 1996).
Review of Faces in the Moon by Betty Louise Bell. Choice 33:6 (Feb. 1996).
Review of Trickster in the Land of Dreams by Zeese Papanikolas. Choice 33:6 (Jan. 1996).
Review of College Girls: A Century in Fiction by Shirley Marchalonis. Choice 33:3 (Nov. 1995).
Review of Transcendent Daughters by Joseph Church. Choice (May 1995).
Review of The June Rise: The Apocryphal Letter of Joseph Antoine Janis by William Tremblay. Choice 32:8 (April 1995).
Review of New Essays on The Country of the Pointed Firs, edited by June Howard. Choice 32:5 (Jan. 1995).
SELECTED PRESENTATIONS
"Authority and Self-Representation in The Loony-Bin Trip and An Unquiet Mind," Twenty-third Annual Colloquium on Literature and Film, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, October 15-17, 1998.
"'Just How Far Can a Middle Man Go? Laban Miles, 'The Osage and the White Man's Road.'" Western Literature Association Conference, Albuquerque, New Mexico, October 15-18, 1997.
"Where is the Tramp in This Picture?: Ordinary Lives in Sarah Orne Jewett." 19th Century Studies Association Conference, Davidson College, March 20-22, 1997.
"The Uses of Memory: Placement and Displacement in Jewett and Cather," Sarah Orne Jewett and Her Contemporaries: The Centennial Conference, Westbrook College, Portland, Maine, June 21-23, 1996.
"Why Little Eva Doesn't Live in New England and Grandmother Badger Does," Conference of the Southeastern Nineteenth-Century Studies Association, Lexington, Kentucky, April 7-9, 1994.
COURSES TAUGHT AT SWEET BRIAR
20th-Century African-American Literature; Southern Fiction (introductory and advanced); Faulkner and Cather; Versions of the Heroic; Nineteenth-Century American Novel; Popular American Fiction; Black Autobiographies; Theory and Practice of Dream Interpretation (team taught with Margaret Hartman); American Romanticism; American Texts and Contexts; Twentieth-Century American Women Writers; Twentieth-Century African-American Writers; American Women Confront Cultural Change (team taught with Paul Taylor); Major American Writers I and II; American Fiction; Thought and Expression; Senior Seminar; Mythology, Typology, and Trickster Literature
MEMBERSHIPS
AAUP Harriet Beecher Stowe Society
Modern Language Association
Nineteenth Century Studies Association
Phi Beta Kappa
South Atlantic Modern Language Association
Western American Literature Association