Prof. Bailey attended the Society for the Study of American Women Writers conference and furthered her study of the ways in which transnational approaches are reshaping thinking about women writers

Bailey, Brigitte

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University of New HampshireUniversity of New Hampshire Scholars' RepositoryFaculty Travel Reports Global Education Center2016Brigitte Bailey, Associate Professor of English,COLA travels to FranceBrigitte BaileyUniversity of New Hampshire - Main Campus, Brigitte.Bailey@unh.eduFollow this and additional works at: https://scholars.unh.edu/international_travelThis Report is brought to you for free and open access by the Global Education Center at University of New Hampshire Scholars' Repository. It hasbeen accepted for inclusion in Faculty Travel Reports by an authorized administrator of University of New Hampshire Scholars' Repository. For moreinformation, please contact nicole.hentz@unh.edu.Recommended CitationBailey, Brigitte, "Brigitte Bailey, Associate Professor of English, COLA travels to France" (2016). Faculty Travel Reports. 108.https://scholars.unh.edu/international_travel/1083/19/2018 Brigitte Bailey | UNH Globalhttps://www.unh.edu/global/brigitte-bailey 1/4UNH GlobalBrigitte BaileyAssociate Professor of English, COLA - France One of the most substantial shi s in recent American literary studies has been the move tounderstand US writings in transatlantic and global contexts. This development has prompted newthinking about the modern nation, as a concept created in transnational contexts, and about writerswho at once identify strongly with their nation of origin and have sustained international careers. Forthree days, 5-7 July 2017, I attended the Society for the Study of American Women Writersconference “Border Crossings: Translation, Migration, and Gender in the Americas, the Transatlantic,and the Transpacific” in the beautiful and historic French city of Bordeaux. Traveling to Bordeauxgave me the opportunity to participate in the SSAWW’s first international conference, to join a panelon the 19th-century writer Margaret Fuller, to discuss future collaborations with a fellow Fullerscholar working on a digital project, and to chair another panel. More broadly, it gave me the chanceto absorb current scholarship on the ways in which transnational approaches are reshaping ourthinking about women writers from Harriet Beecher Stowe to Susan Sontag. The SSAWW conference’s location at theUniversité Bordeaux Montaigne, which hostedthe conference, and its topic brought togetherUS and European scholars. For example, on mypanel, “Margaret Fuller Across Borders,” I, thechair, and one other panelist were from the US,while three other panelists were from Denmark,Italy, and Russia. Fuller was an antebellum3/19/2018 Brigitte Bailey | UNH Globalhttps://www.unh.edu/global/brigitte-bailey 2/4(/global/sites/default/files/cie/media/images/faculty_travel_reports/bailey-panelist.jpg)(l. to r.) Panelists at dinner in Bordeaux: Prof. Bailey,Professor Sonia Di Loreto of the University of Torino,Professor Christa Holm Vogelius of the University ofCopenhagen, Charlene Avallone of Hawaii (anindependent scholar and our panel’s chair), ProfessorMarina P. Kizima of the Moscow State Institute ofInternational Relations, and Professor KathleenLawrence of Georgetown UniversityPalais de la Bourse at nightpublic intellectual--a transcendentalist, editor,and journalist—whose career stretched fromBoston to Rome, where she covered the 1848-49 Roman Revolution for the New-York Tribune.Panelists discussed her early reading ofEuropean writers, her pedagogy, her dispatchesto the Tribune, and her reception in the Russianpress in 1850. My paper, “Travel, Gender, andGenre in Fuller’s European Writings,” discussedthe Tribune dispatches; in doing so, I wasdrawing on a long involvement with Fuller’sItalian journalism, but I was also looking ahead to my next project, on antebellum periodicalwritings. A er our session, I met with one of my fellow panelists, Professor Sonia Di Loreto, from theUniversity of Torino, to discuss my possible contribution to her digital project contextualizing andanalyzing Fuller’s transnational correspondence and publications. This is an exciting project, and Iam glad to be invited to participate. I ended the conference by chairing another 19th-centurysession, which included two papers on Fuller—also innovative and illuminating research.I have been involved in conferences andpublications in this field for the last 10 years. Inorder to bring this burgeoning area of study tocampus, in 2014 I created a graduate seminaron “Antebellum Transatlantic Writers.” Theexperience at this conference will enrich thisseminar the next time I teach it and will allowme to introduce students more fully to thiscurrent scholarly conversation.I was also glad to explore Bordeaux: itsmedieval cathedral, 18th-century waterfront(especially dramatic at night), and such 19th-century sites as the Monument aux Girondins, a3/19/2018 Brigitte Bailey | UNH Globalhttps://www.unh.edu/global/brigitte-bailey 3/4dramatic fountain memorializing moderate French revolutionaries executed during the 1793 reign ofTerror. 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Brigitte Bailey, Associate Professor of English, COLA travels to France

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