Patricia Larson Kalayjian, Ph.D

Title: Assistant Professor and Chair, Interdisciplinary Studies/PACE

Department: Interdisciplinary Studies/PACE

Office: SCC 130
Phone Extension: x1040
Email Username: pkalayjian

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Papers, Conferences, and Publications

“Setting up a Writing Intensive Course with Linked Assignments,” co-presenter, ECLP Mini-Conference, CSUDH, September 7, 2007.
Conference Director, “De-domesticating the Countryside,” Catharine Maria Sedgwick Society (CMSS) Tenth Anniversary Symposium, Stockbridge, MA, May 31-June 3, 2007.
“Realigning Authority in the American Village: Sedgwick’s A New-England Tale,” CMSS Symposium, Stockbridge, MA, June 1, 2007.
“Claiming Literary Territory in A New-England Tale,” American Literature Association, Boston, MA, May, 2007.
Chair: “Soirees? Salons? Conversations?: Women’s Intellectual and Social Gatherings from 1820-1880.” Society for the Study of American Women Writers (SSAWW), Philadelphia, PA, November 8-11, 2006.
Chair: “Violated Patriarchs: American Women Rewrite the Father,” SSAWW, 2006.
“Patriarchal Violence and Disordered Behaviors in Sedgwick’s Hope Leslie,” SSAWW, 2006.
“Realigning Power in the American Village: Sedgwick’s A New-England Tale,” American Literature Association Symposium on American Fiction, September 29-30, 2006.
Rereading the American West: A Multicultural Anthology (on hold); lead editor.
“’Oh Father, My Father’: Magawisca’s Plea in Hope Leslie,” Western Literature Association, Los Angeles, October 2005.
Conference Director, “Antebellum American Women Writers and the City,” Fordham University, NY, September 2005.
“Another Perspective on the Lenox Portrait.” Catharine Maria Sedgwick Newsletter, Fall, 2004.
"A Frontier of (Il)Legitimacy: Appraising Motherhood in Gilman's ‘An Honest Woman’ and Austin's ‘House of Offense.’” Western Literature Association, Big Sky, MT, September, 2004.
Moderator: "Dancing along the Borders: Performativity and the Crossing of Racial and Gender Boundaries." MELUS (Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States), San Antonio, TX, March, 2004.
“Negotiating Motherhood, Sexuality, and Virtue in Gilman’s ‘An Honest Woman’ and Austin’s ‘House of Offence,’” SSAWW (Society for the Study of American Women Writers), Ft Worth TX, Fall, 2003.
“E-racing and Engendering Savagery: Sedgwick’s Massacres at Mystic and Bethel,” Third Annual Catharine Maria Sedgwick Symposium, Stockbridge, MA, June 2003.
“Disinterest as Moral Corrective in Clarence’s Cultural Critique” in Catharine Maria Sedgwick: Critical Perspectives (Northeastern University Press, 2003).
“Creating a Multi-Cultural Western Reader,” WLA (Western Literature Association), Tucson, AZ, Fall, 2002.
“So Many Stories, So Little Space: Developing a Multi-Cultural Western Anthology,” MELUS (Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the United States), Seattle, WA, Spring, 2002.
"Catharine Maria Sedgwick," in American Women Prose Writers, 1820-1880, Volume 239, in the Dictionary of Literary Biography series, 2001.
“Theory and Praxis: Religion in A New England Tale” SSAWW (Society for the Study of American Women Writers), Spring 2001.
“Sedgwick's Massacres at Mystic and Bethel: E-racing and Engendering Savagery,” WLA Omaha, NE, Fall 2001.
“Clearing Space: Myth Meets Reality in A New Home,” WLA, Norman, OK, Fall 2000
“From A City on the Hill to Dodge City: Settlement in American Literature and Myth,” Southern American Studies Association Conference, Wilmington, NC; February, 1999.
“Sedgwick’s Dystopic Village: A New England Tale,” American Literature Association Conference, Baltimore, MD; May, 1999.
“The Mysterious Disappearance of Catharine Sedgwick, Authoress.” Invited lecture, University of Portland, September, 1998.
“Catharine Maria Sedgwick: A Case of Scholarly Misogyny and Canonical Exclusion.” Invited lecture, Five College Women’s Studies Research Center, Mount Holyoke College, April, 1998.
"A Case of Canonical Exclusion," Sedgwick Symposium, Stockbridge, MA, June, 1997.
"Clarence, Consumerism, and Nineteenth-Century Family Values," Sedgwick Symposium, Stockbridge, MA, June, 1997.
"Shaping the American Canon: Current Reception of Women's Writing," 20th-Century Literature Conference 1997, Louisville, KY, February, 1997.
"Literary Frontiers: Hope Leslie and the Facts of Fiction," NWSA Journal, Fall, 1996.
"Sedgwick's 'Natural Girls': Adolescence in the Early National Period," National Women's Studies Association Conference, Skidmore College, June, 1996.
"Sex, Lies, and the Critical Establishment: Contemporary Reception of Women's Writing," a presentation with Scripps undergraduate student researchers at NWSA Conference, Skidmore College, June, 1996.
"Exploring the Literary Frontiers with Child, Sedgwick, and Kirkland," American Literature Association Conference, San Diego, CA, May, 1996.
"Revisioning America's Past: Catharine Sedgwick's Hope Leslie," National Women's Studies Conference, U of Oklahoma, June, 1995.
"Contemporary Critical Reception of Women's Writing"; a presentation with student researchers, Pacific Southwest Women's Studies Association, Claremont, April, 1995.
"Cooper and Sedgwick: Rivalry or Respect?" American Literature Association Conference, May, 1993.
"Catharine Sedgwick's Radical View of Marriage": American Literature Association Conference, May, 1993.
"Cooper and Sedgwick: Rivalry or Respect?": James Fenimore Cooper Society Miscellaneous Papers, No. 4, September, 1993.

Reviews

Review of "Raising the Dust," by Beth Sutton-Ramspeck, and Beyond the Gibson Girl, by Martha H. Patterson. American Literature, March, 2007.
Review of "Shifting the Blame," by Nan Goodman, for American Literature, December, 1999.
Review of "Our Sister Editors," by Patricia Okker, for American Literature, June, 1996.
Review of "The Power of Her Sympathy", edited and with an introduction by Mary Kelly, for American Literature, December, 1994.

Awards and Honors

WASC Mini-grant: “Highlighting Diversity through Creative Web Design,” spring 2007
CTL Travel Grant, to present a paper and chair panels at SSAWW, Philadelphia, PA, fall 2006
Research Associate, Five Colleges Women’s Studies Research Center, Mt. Holyoke College, spring, 1998
Recipient, Johnson Faculty Development Grant, Scripps College, spring, 1997

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