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Would you like to become a more involved member of the Hopkins Society? Would you like to be the first to pass along our annual CFPs for the American Literature Association conference among your colleagues? Please join our listserv today … Continue reading →

With the impending start of a new academic year, PEHS is pleased to announce that president-elect Edlie Wong and vice president-elect DeLisa Hawkes have successfully transitioned to their new roles. We look forward to another excellent year in Hopkins Studies!

The Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins Society is pleased to invite submissions for the Pauline Hopkins Memorial Student Scholarships and its bi-annual scholarly publication award. Submissions are due March 3, 2025, and awards will be presented at the American Literature Association conference … Continue reading →

The Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins Society will present two panels at the 2025 meeting of the American Literature Association: “Hopkins and her Society: Fifteen Years of the Pauline E. Hopkins Society” and “Pauline Hopkins on the Page: At the Intersection of … Continue reading →

Pauline E. Hopkins in Comparative Perspective The Pauline E. Hopkins Society invites proposals that examine any aspect of Hopkins’ work or life from a comparative perspective for presentation at the 34rd Annual American Literature Association Convention, to be held in Boston, … Continue reading →

The Pauline E. Hopkins Society invites submissions for its panel, “Hopkins and her Contemporaries: Responses to Racial Violence, Appeals for Racial Justice,” at the 2022 meeting of the American Literature Association. Professor Edlie Wong of the University of Maryland, College … Continue reading →

Please join us via Zoom, Monday, June 14, from 2:30-4:00 pm (Eastern time) for our 2021 ALA Panel, “Hopkins and Social Justice.”  The session will be recorded and posted on a new ALA YouTube Channel, thus making our panel available for … Continue reading →

The PEHS requests submissions for its upcoming panel, “Hopkins and Her Contemporaries: Responses to Racial Violence, Appeals for Racial Justice.” Well over a century separates our historical moment from the “lynching era” of Wells, Hopkins, and their contemporaries.  Our two … Continue reading →

The Pauline E. Hopkins Society’s president, Dr. Cherene Sherrard-Johnson (University of Wisconsin-Madison), was recently a featured guest on the podcast I Found This Great Book!, which focuses on “sharing mystery, speculative and classic literature by Black authors.” Sherrard-Johnson discusses “Talma Gordon” … Continue reading →

PEHS members John Gruesser and Alisha Knight are pleased to announce their new Broadview Press edition of Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins’s Hagar’s Daughter, originally published in the Colored American Magazine (1901-1902).