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Site Links Academic Home Curriculum Vitae Course Information Resources for Students LASSO SCMLA Women's Caucus Phi Beta Kappa Publication Excerpts Personal Links Off-Site Links Arts and Sciences TTU English Department ©Hurst, 2000 Updated January 2009	The SCMLA Women’s Caucus: A History of Programs Collected and Compiled by Mary Jane Hurst Texas Tech University corrections and updates should be sent to maryjane.hurst@ttu.edu The SCMLA Women’s Caucus was formed in 1972. The first SCMLA Women’s Caucus session was presented in 1973. The Women’s Caucus of the South Central MLA provides a forum for the discussion of professional issues significant to women in academia. * * * * * * * * * * The home page of SCMLA can be found at www.ou.edu/scmla. * * * * * * * * * * Background Information for Caucus Officers The SCMLA Women’s Caucus Chair is responsible for arranging the breakfast speaker, for coordinating the breakfast with the SCMLA office, and for preparing all aspects of the caucus session -- announcing the call for papers, selecting the presentations, and chairing the session at the conference -- all in coordination with the SCMLA office. The Women’s Caucus Secretary is responsible for assisting the caucus chair and keeping records on attendance at the caucus session. Ordinarily, the secretary will become the chair at the conclusion of the session. At each session, the new chair should be confirmed and a new secretary elected by vote of all those present at a time during the caucus session set aside as a Business Meeting. For some time before 1995, the Women’s Caucus held a breakfast, a caucus session, and a forum session. After 1995, the Women’s Caucus held a breakfast and a caucus session, but the forum session no longer appeared as an automatic entity in the SCMLA program. Members are welcome to host a second session to coordinate with the caucus session; such sessions come under the category of SCMLA Special Sessions and must be proposed to and approved by the SCMLA office following the guidelines and due dates set by SCMLA for all Special Sessions. Each year, obviously, many SCMLA sessions contain presentations of interest to Women’s Caucus members. The Women’s Caucus sessions, however, are unique in their emphasis on professional issues relevant to women. 2009 Baton Rouge Secrets: The Shocking Truth about Being Female in Academe. For female academics, important, necessary information often remains hidden-unwritten and unspoken. This panel seeks papers that interrogate the revelation of these SECRETS. Papers of personal experience, as well as general observation are welcome. Chair: Lynda Byrd Cook, Sam Houston State U, Dept. of English, Huntsville, TX 77341, lindacook@shsu.edu Secretary: Debra Andrist, Sam Houston State U ---- 2008 San Antonio FOREVER FEMME AND SOMETIMES FATALE: IMAGES OF THE PROFESSIONAL WOMAN IN HOLLYWOOD Chair: Christina Vick, Louisiana State U-Eunice Secretary: Joel Pare, Texas Woman’s U 1. "The Film Industry’s Contribution to Stereotyped Images of Working Women," Brenda Guillory 2. "Notes on a Scandal: A Scandalously New Portrayal of Working Women," Linda Byrd Cook, Sam Houston State U 4. "Violent Control: V.I. Warshawski’s Subversion of Paretsky’s Social Commentary," Adrienne Forman, Texas State U 5. "Betty Grable’s Legs and Playboy Bunnies’Guns: The Manipulation of Women’s Work in War Films," Tracy Bilsing, Sam Houston State U ----- 2007 Memphis YOU’VE COME A LONG WAY, BABY, BUT WHERE ARE YOU NOW, AND WHERE ARE YOU GOING? Chair: Debra D. Andrist , Sam Houston State U Secretary: Christina Vick, Louisiana State U at Eunice Interactive Seminar with Comments from Established Women Scholars on A. The Meaning of Senior Status vs Junior Status B. Their Current and Future Professional Plans C. Their Plans for Retirement/Professional Continuation/A Complete Career Change * * * * * * * * * * 2006 Dallas Women's Caucus Session: How Far Have You Come, Baby? The Impact of Gender on Faculty Evaluations Chair: Renee Schlueter, Kirkwood Community College Secretary: Debra Andrist, University of St. Thomas Papers: Jessica Sheetz-Nguyen, University of Central Oklahoma, "Being and Becoming: A New Female Faculty Navigates Uncertain Shoals" Brenda Brown, University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma, "Faculty Evaluations: Perception vs. Reality" Allison York, Kirkwood Community College, "When Does Gender Matter? A Female Administrator's Perception of Gender and Evaluation" Breakfast Speaker: Mary Trachsel, University of Iowa, "Who Cares? How Do Feminist Ethics, Especially Ethics-of-Care Theories, Figure into the Academic Work Ethic?" * * * * * * * * * * 2005 Houston Women's Caucus Session Chair: Elizabeth Brown-Guillory, University of Houston Secretary: Renee Schlueter, Kirkwood Community College Papers: Kaiama L. Glover, Barnard College, Columbia University, "Transitions and Negotiations: New Ways of Moving Through Academic Space" Margaret Backus, University of Houston, "Promoting Eccentricity" Debra D. Andrist, University of St. Thomas, "The Whose Cliche Club" Breakfast Speaker: Tess Onwueme, University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire, "Managing Time: Strategies for Academic Women Who Do [Too] Much" * * * * * * * * * * 2004 New Orleans Women's Caucus Session Chair: Brenda Gabioud Brown, University of Science & Arts of Oklahoma Secretary: Elizabeth Brown-Guillory, University of Houston Papers: Mary Jane Hurst, Texas Tech University, "Roles and Goals for Administrators" Renee J. Schlueter, Kirkwood Community College, "Speaking Up and Acting Authoritative: Resisting the 'Good Girl' Within" Allison York, Kirkwood Community College, "The Ole Boys and the Good Girls: Women Negotiating Cultural Factors in Administration" Breakfast Speaker: Violet Harrington Bryan, Xavier University of Louisiana, "Black Women in the Academy" * * * * * * * * * * 2003 Hot Springs Women's Caucus Session Chair: Lori L. Rowlett, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Secretary: unfilled Papers: Violet Harrington Bryan, Xavier University of Louisiana, "The Situation of African American Women Professors in Historically Black Colleges and Universities" Viki Pettijohn Craig, Southwestern Oklahoma State University, "Teaching in a Conservative, Small-Town Environment" Sharon K. Hydo, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, "Managing Issues of Sexuality in the Classroom" * * * * * * * * * * 2002 Austin Women's Caucus Session Chair: Diana Vela, Texas Christian University Secretary: A. Heidi Karriker, University of Oklahoma Papers: Felicia Jean Steele, College of New Jersey, "Never Let Them See You Cry? Gender, Grief, and Literature in the Post-9/11 Classroom" Helen Thompson, University of Louisiana - Lafayette, "Race, Gender, and Nationality in the Historically Black Classroom" Jeremy B. Sideris, New Mexico State University, "The Role of Metaphor in Discrete Linguistic Traditions of Female Middle and Working Class Students" Breakfast Speaker: Jose E. Limon, University of Texas-Austin * * * * * * * * * * 2001 Tulsa Women's Caucus Session Chair: Jill Jones, Southwestern Oklahoma State University Papers: Diana Vela, Texas Christian University, "Questions that Men are Never Asked: Conceiving Women in the Academy" Holly A. Laird, University of Tulsa, "Becoming a Chair[man]/Remaining Teacher, Scholar, Editor, Female-on-Committees, Mom" Mary Jane Hurst, Texas Tech University, "Issues to Consider in Making Decisions about Administrative Appointments" Breakfast Speaker: Robin A. Roberts, Louisiana State University, "Performing Gender" * * * * * * * * * * 2000 San Antonio Women's Caucus Session Chair: Lori Rowlett, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Secretary: Jill Jones, Southwestern Oklahoma State University Papers: Kathleen Keating, Greensboro College, "Inconclusive Evidence: Joan of Arc, Margaret Oliphant, and Women's Speculation" Mary A. McCay, Loyola University of New Orleans, "Ellen Gilchrist's Heroines: The Scourge of New Orleans" Joanne M. McMullen, Louisiana State University, "WANTED: Sacramental Catholicism in Flannery O'Connor's 'The River'" Breakfast Speaker: Graciela Limon, Loyola Marymount University Forum Special Session Chair: Emily Toth, Louisiana State University Papers: Ann Daghistany, Texas Tech University, "Dorothea Dix, Mentor of Civil War Nurses" Lori Rowlett, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, "Dear Abby, Dear Ann: Twin Advice and the Process of Change" Susie Crowson, Texas Women's University, "Frankly, My Dear, I Don't Give Advice: The Rhetorical Strategies of Dr. Laura Schlessinger" Emily Toth, Louisiana State University, "Letters to Ms. Mentor" * * * * * * * * * * 1999 Memphis Women’s Caucus Session Theme: Intersections: Our Multiple Selves Chair: Brenda Brown, University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma Secretary: Virginia Brackett, East Central University Papers: Chauna Craig, University of Arkansas-Monticello, “That Little Girl over in English” Barbara Neault Kelber, Palomar College, “Say It Ain’t So, Jo” Mary Murphy, Sir Wilfred Grenfell College, “Unravelling the Material Evidence” Sandra Dahlberg, University of Houston-Downtown, “Coming Out of the Academic Broom Closet” Breakfast Speaker: Panthea Reid, Louisiana State University “Trying to Write True Lives of Women who Write Fictional Lives: Virginia Woolf and Tillie Olsen, with Some Remarks on Ellen Douglas” * * * * * * * * * * 1998 New Orleans Women’s Caucus Session Chair: Victoria Gaydosik, East Central University Secretary: Brenda Gabious Brown, University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma Papers: Viki Pettijohn Craig, Southwestern Oklahoma State University, “Quilting: A Trope for Constructing Women’s Cultures” Virginia Brackett, East Central University, “Fighting the Demon Tradition: Women Writing in Academe” Ann Simon, University of California Berkeley, “‘The Fix-up: Isn’t That What Friends Are For’ Female Friendships as Constructed by Cosmopolitan Magazine’s Self Questionnaires” Mary Adams, Western Carolina Universityi, “Clan PMS and Others: Resistance and Accommodation in the Women’s Video Game Culture” Breakfast Speaker: Emily Toth, Louisiana State University, “Career Development for Academic Women” Forum Special Session: Gossip in Academia Chair: Emily Toth, Louisiana State University Roundtable discussion with Harriet Adams, University of Toledo Amy Wink, Stephen F. Austin University Susan Koppelman, Tucson, Arizona Eva Gold, Southeastern Louisiana University * * * * * * * * * * 1997 Dallas Women’s Caucus Session Chair: Viki Spencer Pettijohn, Southwestern Oklahoma State University Secretary: Michelle Levy, Xavier University of Louisiana Papers: Brenda Brown, University of Science and Arst of Oklahoma, “Women + Academia = Stress” Jill Tedford Jones, Southwestern Oklahoma State University, “Smoothing those Ruffled Feathers: Strategies for Relieving Stress” Mary Jane Hurst, Texas Tech University, “How to Succeed in Academe Without Killing Ourselves” Victoria Gaydosik, East Central University, “As Any Doctoral Candidate Knows, Power Corrupts, and Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely” Breakfast Speaker: Suzan Jarvis-King, Tulsa Junior College, performing as Dorothy Parker Forum Special Session: Women’s Mentoring Across the Generations: What Can We Learn? Chair: Emily Toth, Louisiana State University Roundtable discussion with Victoria McLure, South Plains College Deborah Phelps, Sam Houston State University Barbara Rodman, University of North Texas Emily Toth, Louisiana State University * * * * * * * * * * 1996 San Antonio Women’s Caucus Session Chair: Mary Jane Hurst, Texas Tech University Secretary: Viki Pettijohn, Southwest Oklahoma State University Papers: Allessandria Polizi, University of North Texas, “Grey Hair and Conservative Clothes: How Age and Gender Affect Students’ Responses to Faculty” Isabel Garayta, University of Texas at Austin, “‘Womanhandling’ a Text: Translation, Feminism, and Rewriting” Jeanette Harris, University of Southern Mississippi, “Women as Administrators: Speaking from Experience” Janet Perez, Texas Tech University, “Coping Strategies and Balancing Acts: Work/Family/Research” Breakfast Speaker: Elizabeth Brown-Guillory, University of Houston Forum Special Session Chair: Marjean Purinton, Texas Tech University Papers: A. Cheryl Curtis, University of Hartford, “Creating Culturally Responsive Curriculum: Does Race Matter?” Pamela R. Matthews, Texas A & M University, “Crossing Intra- Institutional Boundaries; or, How to Relive Second Wave Feminism Even If You Missed It the First Time” Laurie Porter, University of Texas-Arlington, “Crossing Interdisciplinary Borders: Designing and Teaching a Core Course for Women’s Studies” Patricia L. Repka, Janus Service Corporation, “Leaving ‘Apple Slump’: My Journey to Corporate America” * * * * * * * * * * 1995 Houston Women’s Caucus Session Chair: Jill Owens, Southwest Oklahoma State University Papers: Mary Adams Evans, University of Oklahoma: “Like Father, Like Daughter: The Unruly Influence of King Lear” Suzanne Green and David Caudle, University of North Texas: “Tearing Toward Solitude: Mademoiselle Reisz as Symbolic Alternative” Viki Pettijohn, Southwest Oklahoma State University: “Connections of Choice and Chance: Anne Tyler’s Revision of American Families” Emily Toth, Louisiana State University: “Women Who Get Tenured and Women Who Don’t and Why” Breakfast Speaker: Katherine Kelly, Texas A&M University Forum Special Session Chair: Mary Jane Hurst, Texas Tech University Papers: Marjean Purinton, Texas Tech University: “The All Purpose Defender of Feminism and Theory: When Graduate Training Comes Face to Face with Real-World Opposition” Barbara Rodman, University of North Texas: “Wise Women, Mentors, and Other Assigned Roles: When Doing It All Is Doing Too Much” Lady Falls Brown, Texas Tech University: “Negotiating Through a Grievance Procedure: When You’re Mad as Hell and Aren’t Going to Take It Any More” * * * * * * * * * * 1994 New Orleans Women’s Caucus Session Chair: Joyce Zonana, University of New Orleans Papers: Marjean Purinton, Westfield State College: “Academic Restraint” Anne Charles, University of New Orleans: “Teaching Lesbian Literature” Michele Frucht Levy, Xavier University: “Curricular Change and the Feminist Chair” Mary Jane Hurst, Texas Tech University: “Recruitment and Retention: What Does the Stanford Report Mean for Us?” Breakfast Speaker: Emily Toth, Louisiana State University Forum Session Chair: Cynthia Tompkins, Arizona State University West Papers: Alejandra Elenes, Arizona State University West: “This Class Is Too Feminist: Working With Student Resistance” Christina Hahn, Arizona State University West: “The Women’s Studies Major” Laurie Lisa, Arizona State University: “Native American Women’s Lifestories” Emily Toth, Louisiana State University: “Why Are They So Snotty? I Asked Myself” * * * * * * * * * * 1993 Austin Women’s Caucus Session Chair: Miriam B. Echeverria, Southwest Texas State University Secretary: Anita Louise Johnson, Colgate University Papers: Analouise Keating, Eastern New Mexico University: “Nonwestern Myth and the Politics of Identity Formation in the Works of Gloria Anzaldua, Audre Lorde, and Paula Gunn Allen” Lynn M. Alexander, University of Tennessee at Martin: “Sinner or Sacrifice? The Drowned Woman in Victorian Literature and Art” Joyce Zonana, University of New Orleans: “The First Stand for Women’s Rights: The Book of Esther and Feminist Empowerment” Breakfast Speaker: not listed in the program Forum Session Chair: Miriam B. Echeverria, Southwest Texas State University Secretary: Anita Louise Johnson, Colgate University Papers: Maria Lopez, University of Northern Colorado: “Relating the Viewpoints of a Minority Woman Administrator” Maria I. Tamargo, Universidad Interamericana-Metro: “The Role of the Woman Administrator in Puerto Rican Universities” Cynthia M. Tompkins, Arizona State University West: “Empowered by Being Othered” Betty A. Matthews, University of Arkansas at Monticello: “The Turn of the Screw: The Plight of Academic Women in the South” Gretchen Kay Lutz, San Jacinto College Central: “Home Baked Cookies for Wilma Mankiller or How ‘Feminist’ Became the ‘F Word’ at San Jacinto College” * * * * * * * * * * 1992 Memphis Women’s Caucus Session Chair: Debra D. Andrist, Baylor University Sect: Angela Green, Lee College Papers: Jo N. Farrar, San Jacinto College: “The Pilgrim’s Progress: Thelma and Louise as Allegory” Gwendolyn Diaz, St. Mary’s University: “From Hegel to Lacan: Of Masters and Slaves in Other Weapons by Luisa Valenzuela” Nancy O. Wilhelm, Louisiana State University in Shreveport, “Tennessee Williams: The Battle of the Sexes” Elizabeth Brown-Guillory, University of Houston: “Women and Power: A Study of the Politics of Women Administrators in Academia” Breakfast Speaker: not listed in the program Forum Session Chair: Debra D. Andrist, Baylor University Secretary: Angela Green, Lee College Panel - Women Administrators, no names listed in program * * * * * * * * * * 1991 Fort Worth Women’s Caucus Session Chair: Terri Baker, Northeastern State University Secretary: Debra Andrist, Baylor University Papers: Nancy Nyquist, Brooklyn Center, MN: “Some Philosophical Considerations in Feminist Pedagogy” Angie Green, Lee College, TN: “Religion and Feminism: When Opposites Attract” Betty Moss, Alamo High School, TX: “Feminist Issues in the High School Classroom” Fran Holman Johnson, Louisiana Tech University: “‘Ain’t it awful,’ ‘who cares,’ and ‘The Screens Are Gone’” Breakfast Speaker: not listed in the program Forum Session Chair: Terri M. Baker, Northeastern University Secretary: Debra Andrist, Baylor University Panel: “A New Kind of School Marm for Urban College Cowboy College: The American Association of Women in Community and Junior Colleges Forms a Chapter at San Jacinto College, Pasadena, Texas.” Panel Presentation by the Faculty of San Jacinto College. Chaired by Gretchen Kay Lutz * * * * * * * * * * 1990 San Antonio Women’s Caucus Session Chair: Elizabeth Brown-Guillory, University of Houston Secretary: Terri M. Baker, Northeastern State University Papers: Susan Lurie, Rice University: “Women’s Studies into the 1990s” Robin Latimer, Tarleton State University: “Icon for the Nineties: The Celibate Machine” Sonia Riquelme, Southwestern University: “Feminine Discourse in Politics: Women Presidents in Latin American Countries” Breakfast Speaker: bell hooks Forum Session Chair: Elizabeth Brown-Guillory, University of Houston Secretary: Terri M. Baker, Northeastern University Panel: “Multicultural Feminist Readings: Common Ground in the 1990s” Denise Chavez, University of Houston Luci Tapahonso, University of New Mexico Violet Harrington Bryan, Dillard University Fabian Worsham, University of Houston-Downtown Flo Davis, Houston * * * * * * * * * * 1989 New Orleans Women’s Caucus Session Chair: Selma A. Zebouni, Louisiana State University Secretary: Elizabeth Brown-Guillory, University of Houston Papers: Purnima Bose, University of Texas, “The Tourism Industry and The Commodification of Indian Women” Susan Lurie, Rice University, “Dangerous Liasons: Female Sexual Desire and the Cinematic Apparatus” Robin Roberts, Louisiana State University, “I Guess You Call What We Do Feminist: Female Rappers on Music Television” Breakfast Speaker: Shari Benstock, University of Miami Forum Session Chair: Selma A. Zebouni, Louisiana State University Seretary: Elizabeth Brown-Guillory, University of Houston Papers: Sonia Riqueme, Southwestern University, “A Hispanic Perspective on Feminism and Mass Communication” Emily Toth, Louisiana State University, “Popular Biographies of Women” Roswitha Mueller, University of Wisconsin, “Valie Export: Screen Embodiments” Barbara Corell, University of Tulsa, “Bodies and Displacements, Pumping Iron and Pumping Iron II: The Women” * * * * * * * * * * 1988 Arlington Women’s Caucus Session Chair: Sonia Saldivar-Hull, University of Texas Secretary: Selma Zebouni, Louisiana State University Papers: Juanita Luna Lawhn, San Antonio College, “Feminism in La Prensa: Women’s Response to the Ideology of El Mexico de Afuera” Virginia A.K. Moran, University of Houston, “Philosophers Meet Feminism at ‘The Burning House’” Purnima Bose, University of Texas, “Redefining the Colonial Master Trope: The Displacement of the Anglo-American Male in Bharati Mukherjee’s Wife” Virginia Carmichael, Rice University, “What Do Women Want: Representations of Feminism in the ‘Feminist’ Novel” Breakfast Speaker: Sandra Cisneros “Milagritos -- Small Miracles That Save Our Lives” Forum Session Chair: Sonia Saldivar-Hull, University of Texas Secretary: Selma Zebouni, Louisiana State University Forum Panel: “Women of Color in Academia” Wahneema Lubiana, University of Texas Norma Cantu, Laredo State University Terri Baker, Northeastern State University Carolyn Nizzi Warmbold, University of Texas * * * * * * * * * * 1987 Houston Women’s Caucus Session Chair: Shari Benstock, University of Miami Secretary: Linda S. Coleman, University of New Orleans Papers: Barbara C. Ewell, Loyola University, “Feminism Goes to School; or What’s New?” Claire Culleton, University of Miami, “Cacophonic Preludes: Condition, Treatment and Role of Women in Graduate Programs” Francine Ringold, Editor of Nimrod, “The Creative Leap, or the Cautionary Crawl: The Poem as Paradigm” Selma Zebouni, Louisiana State University, “A Voice and the Institution(s)” Breakfast Speaker: Barbara Harlow, University of Texas “Third World Feminisms" Forum Session Chair: Shari Benstock, University of Miami Secretary: Linda S. Coleman, University of New Orleans Forum Panel: “Working for Each Other: Generating Feminism and Engendering Sisterhood” Viven Gornick, University of Houston Sonia Saldivar-Hull, University of Texas Rosellen Brown Jane Gallop, Rice University * * * * * * * * * * 1986 New Orleans Women’s Caucus Session Chair: Peggy McCormack, Loyola University Sect: Shari Benstock, University of Tulsa Papers: Shelli Booth Fowler, “Redesigning the Critical Approach to Sentimental Fiction: Sensational Designs and Frances E.W. Harper’s Iola Leroy” Bradford K. Mudge, University of Texas, “Burning Down the House: Sara Coleridge, Virginia Woolf, and the Politics of Literary Revision” Bernard Duyfhuizen, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, “The Erotic Narrative Contract: Transaction, Transmission, Transference in George Sand’s Leone Leoni” Celeste M. Schenck, Barnard College, “‘Double Estate’: Dickinson’s Daughters and the Poetry of Body and Soul” Breakfast Speaker: Phyllis Franklin, Executive Director of MLA “Job Opportunities: Tenure, Promotion, and Mobility for Women in Academics” Forum Session: Feminist Literary Theory Chair: Peggy McCormack, Loyola University Panelists: Jane Gallop, Rice University, “The Problem of Definition” Alice Jardine, Harvard University, Respondent Jane Marcus, University of Texas, “Material Girls: Historians, Theorists, and Critics” Shari Benstock, University of Tulsa, Respondent * * * * * * * * * * 1985 Biloxi Women’s Caucus Session Chair: Harriette Andreadis, Texas A&M University Secretary: Peggy McCormack, Loyola University Papers: Lynn M. Alexander, University of Tulsa, “The Plight of the Victorian Seamstress” Angela Ingram, Southwest Texas State University, “‘Obscenity’ in Fiction of the 1920s: Censorship and Control” Jan Calloway, University of Tulsa, “H.D. and Re-visionary Modernist: Helen in Egypt and Her” Celeste M. Schenck, Barnard College, “Feminism and Deconstruction: Re-Constructing the Elegy” Breakfast Speaker: None listed * * * * * * * * * * 1984 Tulsa Women’s Caucus Session Chair: Angela Ingram, Southwest Texas State University Secretary: Harriette Andreadis, Texas A & M University Papers: Gretchen Mieszkowski, University of Houston at Clear Lake, “Chaucer’s Criseyde” Barbara C. Ewell, University of Mississippi, “The Courtier’s Ideal Lady: A Feminist Prototype” Mary R. Pollock, University of Texas, “Emily Bronte’s Theory of Imagination” Mary Jean Northcutt, Lamar University, “Ann Bradstreet: The Dilemma of the Female Poet in Seventeenth-Century America” Martha Satz, Southern Methodist University, “Women’s Understanding: Feminine Epistemology in Susan Glaspell’s ‘A Jury of Her Peers’” Ingeborg H. Ruberg McCoy, Southwest Texas State University, “The Quilt as Symbol of Women’s Ordering of Frontier Experience: Notes by German Women in Texas” Breakfast Speaker: Ruth Perry, MIT “Some Methodological Implications of the Reading of Women’s Writing” * * * * * * * * * * 1983 - Fort Worth Women’s Caucus Session Chair: Dorothy H. Brown, Loyola University Secretary: Angela Ingram, Southwest Texas State University Papers: Joyce L. Beck, University of Texas at Arlington, “H.D.’s Thetis: Regent of Heaven and the Star-Zone” Lina S. Coleman, University of New Orleans, “Gender and Genre: Women and the Short Story” Katherine V. Pope, Del Mar College, Corpus Christi, “The Female Hero and the Gothic Mode” Paula Fix Dean, Pan American University, “Cable’s Aurora and Clotilde: Like Two Sisters” Peggy McCormack and Mark Lussier, Loyola University, “Why a Good Man is Hard to Find: An Examination of Margaret Atwood’s Novels” Panel Session Theme: Women and Academic Careers Margaret Bolsterli, University of Arkansas Betty Sue Flowers, University of Texas Peggy Prenshaw, University of Southern Mississippi * * * * * * * * * * 1982 San Antonio Women’s Caucus Session Chairs: Jane Nelson and Corinne Dale, Texas A & M University Secretary: Dorothy Brown, Loyola University Papers: Panthea Reid Broughton, Louisiana State University, “Spatial Form in The Echoing Grove” Susan Hastings, Tulsa, Oklahoma, “The Solitary Time of Rosamond Lehmann” Angela Ingram, Southwest Texas State University, “‘The sacred edifices’; or, Virginia Woolf and Some of the Sons of Culture” Angela Ball, University of Southern Mississippi, “Emotion in the Poetry of Elizabeth Bishop” Respondent, Martha Satz, Southern Methodist University Julie Lepic, Texas A & M University, “Odd Woman, Beautiful Dream: Sayers’ Gaudy Night and the Female Academic” Rebecca Bell-Metereau, Southwest Texas State University, “Perspectives on the Image of the Professional Woman: Where Has She Been, Where Is She Going?” * * * * * * * * * * 1981 Austin Women’s Caucus Session Chair: Peggy Prenshaw, University of Southern Mississippi Secretary: Corinne Dale, Texas A & M University Papers: Lucile Morse, East Central University, “The Device of Juxtaposition in Mansfield’s ‘Something Childish But Very Natural’” Jane Nelson, Texas A & M University, “The Saving of a Lost Lady: Cather’s Marian Forrester” Dawson F. Gaillard, Loyola University, “Dorothy L. Sayers’s Fables of Modern Life” Germaine Greer, University of Tulsa, “An Overview of the Study of Women’s Literature” * * * * * * * * * * 1980 Memphis Women’s Caucus Session Chair: Barbara C. Ewell, University of Mississippi Secretary: Peggy W. Prenshaw, University of Southern Mississippi Theme: “Into the Eighties: How Far Have We Come” Papers: Angela Ingram, Southwest Texas State University, “No More Forced Marriages, or, how a feminist should not put her hand under the foot of the Immortal Bard” Corrine Dale and Jane Nelson, Texas A & M University, “The Professor’s Nightmare” Dorothy Brown, Loyola University, “From Mrs. Behn to Broadway: Where Are All the Playwrights?” Diana Parker-Speer, Southwest Texas State University, “Editorial and Review Attitudes toward Women Science Fiction Writers” * * * * * * * * * * 1979 New Orleans Women’s Caucus Session Chair: Margareta N. Deschner, Southern Methodist University Secretary: Barbara C. Ewell, Tulane University Papers: Beth Rigel Daugherty, Rice University, “Virginia Woolf: Seeing Double” Patricia Griffin, Southern Methodist University, “Living as Gossip: Gertrude stein in The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas” Jane Nelson, Texas A & M University, “Journey to the Edge of History: Narrative Form in Mabel Dodge Luhan’s Intimate Memories” Elaine d’Entremond Graybill, Southwestern University, “Juana de Asbaje: The Sin of Intellectualism” Mary McBride, Texas Tech University, “The Booke of Margery Kempe and the Interposition of Self-Image into Hagiographic Narration” Teresa J. Irwin, University of Arkansas, “‘Something of Martha and Mary Combined’: Charlie May Simon and Her Two Autogiographies” Lee Harding, Mississippi Collge, “The Extraordinary within the Ordinary: Two Mississippi Women’s Accounts” Jessie A. Coffee, East Texas Baptist College, “The Woman Who Wanted a Protector: The Autobiography of Harriet Page Potter Ames” Dorothy A. Jones, University of Southern Mississippi, “The ‘Caged Bird’ Theme in Published and Unpublished Works” * * * * * * * * * * 1978 Houston Women’s Caucus Session Chair: Carol A. Lindquist, University of Arkansas Secretary: Margareta Deschner, Southern Methodist University Theme: “The impact of feminist thought and feminist criticism on the teaching of traditional period courses in the modern languages” Panel: Nikki Stiller, University of New Orleans, “The Period of Old English and Medieval English” Joanne Ferriot, University of New Orleans, “Period of Renaissance, Seventeenth-Century French” Kathleen Duke, University of Arkansas, “Period of Eighteenth-Century British” Molly Wieting, Xavier University, “American Literature to 1865” Judith Alexander, Southwest Texas State University, “Period of Nineteenth-Century British” Martha Brunson, Southwest Texas State University, “Period of Victorian Literature” Jessie A. Coffee, East Texas Baptist College, “American Literature After 1865” * * * * * * * * * * 1977 Hot Springs, Arkansas Women’s Caucus Session Chair: Carol Gelderman, University of New Orleans Secretary: Carol Lindquist, University of Arkansas Panel: Dawson Gaillard, Loyola University, Moderator Seraphia Leyden, Chair, University of New Orleans Diana Strommer, Associate Dean, Texas A & M University Phyllis Bridges, Dean, Texas Women’s University * * * * * * * * * * 1976 Dallas Women’s Caucus Session Chair: Margaret Bolsterli, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville Secretary: Carol Gelderman, University of New Orleans Papers: Jane Peterson, Richland Community College, “Women’s Studies and Freshman Composition” Victoria Jacoby, Southern Methodist University, “An Introductory Course in Women’s Studies” Paula Gilbert Lewis, Howard University, “‘Women: Social Images in French and Hispanic Literature,’ An Upper Division Comparative Literature Course in Women’s Studies” * * * * * * * * * * 1975 New Orleans Women’s Caucus Session Chair: Dawson Gaillard, Loyola University Theme: “Georgina and the Dragon: Woman and Myth” Papers: Nancy Rice, University of Massachusetts, “Women and Other Monsters: The Sin of Sexuality” Margaret Bolsterli, University of Arkansas, “Georgina Unbound: The Effects of the Women’s Movement on Women’s Writing” Emily Toth, University of North Dakota, “Myth and the Curse” * * * * * * * * * * 1974 Houston Women’s Caucus Session Chair: Gladys W. Milliner, Southern University in New Orleans Theme: “Woman in Search of Herself: Who She Is, Where She Is Going” Topics: Women’s Studies, Publication Opportunities, Affirmative Action, National WCML (no panelists listed) * * * * * * * * * * 1973 Fort Worth Women’s Caucus Session Chair: Dawson Gaillard, Loyola University Papers: Josephine Donovan, University of Kentucky, “Feminist Criticism” Carol Gelderman, Louisiana State University, “Women and Drama” Doris Betts, University of North Carolina, “Women and Contemporary Literature” * * * * * * * * * * 1972 The Women’s Caucus was formed during the 1972 SCMLA Meeting.