The Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins Society

Friday, May 25th, 3:40-5:00pm
Session 12-D Pauline E. Hopkins’s Activism (Pacific F)
Organized by the Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins Society
Chair: John Cullen Gruesser, Kean University
1. “Pauline Hopkins and Advocacy Journalism,” Rhone Fraser, Howard University
2. “Racial Transmigration in Pauline Hopkins’s Of One Blood,” Amadi I. Ozier, Rutgers University
3. “Anti-Lynching Activism in Pauline E. Hopkins’ Contending Forces,” John Cyril Barton, University of Missouri, Kansas City
Respondent: Cherene Sherrard-Johnson, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Friday, May 25th, 5:10-6:30 PM
Session 13-M Business Meeting: Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins Society (Pacific C)
2018 PEHS Annual Meeting Agenda

Friday, May 25th, 7:15 PM
African American Literature and Culture Society Reception

The Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins Society will sponsor a panel at the Society for the Study of American Women Writers Triennial Conference, to be held November 7-11, 2018, in Denver, Colorado.

Past and Future Cultures:  Deep Contextualizations of Pauline Hopkins
Chair:  JoAnn Pavletich

April C. Logan, Assistant Professor, Salisbury University
“Pauline Hopkins’s Cultural (Mis)Appropriations”

Karin L. Hooks, Interim Dean, College of Arts and Humanities, Lorrain County Community College
“The Stenographer as Novelist”

Rynetta Davis, Assistant Professor, University of Kentucky
“No; she could not remain single”:  Shifting Perspectives on Single Black Women in Pauline Hopkins’s Contending Forces (1900) and Hagar’s Daughter (1901-02)

JoAnn Pavletich, Associate Professor, University of Houston Downtown
“Critical and Pedagogical Legacies: The Shaping of Pauline Hopkins”

Pauline E. Hopkins’s Activism

Organized by the Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins Society

Chair: John Cullen Gruesser, Kean University

1.     “Pauline Hopkins and Advocacy Journalism,” Rhone Fraser, Howard University
2.    “Racial Transmigration in Pauline Hopkins’s Of One Blood,” Amadi I. Ozier, Rutgers University
3.     “Anti-Lynching Activism in Pauline E. Hopkins’ Contending Forces,” John Cyril Barton, University of Missouri, Kansas City

Respondent: Cherene Sherrard-Johnson, University of Wisconsin, Madison

We have extended the deadline for abstract submission for Pauline Hopkins Society panels at the 2018 American Literature Association meeting, held in Boston from May 24-27.

The PEHS will sponsor two panels: Pauline Hopkins and Genre and Pauline Hopkins’s Activism in 2018.

Proposals for both panels should be sent to Eurie Dahn, Program Committee Chair, at dahne@strose.edu by January 18, 2018.

For full details, see our Conferences page.

Two recent digital humanities projects by members of the Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins Society provide important resources for scholars of Pauline Hopkins’s work and era.

Prof. Alisha Knight’s Putting Them on the Map visualizes the national network of Colored Co-operative Publishing Company agents in the early 1900s.

Profs. Eurie Dahn and Brian Sweeney are the project directors of the Digital Colored American Magazine, which makes issues of the CAM freely available to view online.

Annual Meeting of Pauline E. Hopkins Society
American Literature Association
Boston, MA
May 26, 2017

I. Introductions
II.  Call for Addenda
III. Approval of 2016 Minutes
IV. Officer reports
V. Service opportunities
VI. ALA Conference 2018
VII.Future Directions
VIII.  Adjournment

Permanently listed under “About Hopkins,” our website now includes a new resource entitled “Inspired Borrowings: Pauline Hopkins’s Literary Plagiarism,” which features the most current information available on the more than fifty texts Hopkins appropriated in her three serialized novels.  This section includes bibliographies and charts indicating the placement of the appropriated passages in those novels.

The Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins Society will sponsor two panels at the 2017 meeting of the American Literature Association, to be held in Boston from May 25-28.

Panel One invites papers on the topic “Pauline Hopkins and Other Editors.”
Panel Two is an open panel on any topic related to Pauline E. Hopkins and her work.

The full Call for Papers is available on our Conferences page.

The Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins Society will sponsor or co-sponsor three panels at the 2016 annual meeting of the American Literature Association, held in San Francisco, California, from May 26-29.  Full panel details are available on our Conferences page.

Thursday, May 26, 2016 4:30 – 5:50 pm
Session 6-D “Woman Thinking”: Public Intellectualism and U.S. Periodical Culture in the Twentieth Century

Friday, May 27, 2016 11:10 am – 12:30 pm
Session 9-J    “Inspired Borrowings” or Plagiarism? The Significance of Pauline Hopkins’s Textual Appropriations

Friday, May 27, 2016 2:10 – 3:30 pm
Session 11-D   Pauline E. Hopkins’s Experiments with Antiquity and Law

Friday, May 27, 2016 3:40 – 5:00 pm 
Session 12-L    Business Meeting:  Pauline Hopkins Society

The Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins Society is pleased to announce its sponsorship of two panels at the 2016 meeting of the American Literature Association, to be held in San Francisco, CA, from May 26-29.

Panel One: “Inspired borrowings’ or plagiarism?” The significance of Pauline Hopkins’s textual appropriations.
Panel Two: Open Panel.

Click here for CFP and full panel details.  Proposals due January 6, 2016.