Resources: My Web Pages

• Aint I a Woman? Literature of Slavery and Freedom, Part I and Part II and Part III-- primary and secondary works by/about 19th and 20th century Afro-Americans. Covers abolitionist literature, slave narratives, neo-slave and freedom literature, history, issues, criticism.
  
  
• American Realism Authors and Contexts: List of primary and secondary works by/about authors. Links to historical and cultural contexts, including Gilded Age impressionists and Ashcan School artists.
  
  
• Cultural Events Report Form--for extra credit reports.
  
  
• Eco-Literature/Nature-Writing:
  • Art Tours. 19th Century Landscape Art, Hudson River Valley Painters, Modern Women Artists (Frieda Kahlo, Georgia O'Keefe, Judy Chicago, Nora Naranjo-Morse, Betty LaDuke, Betye Saar, Faith Ringgold, Barbara Kruger), Ecofeminist Art.
  • Susan Fenimore Cooper's Rural Hours
  • Margaret Fuller's Magnolia and Leila and Seeress and Mariana
  • Gloria Orenstein's Reflowering of the Goddess
  • Gender and Nature Criticism--excerpts from scholarly studies.
  • Eco-Poetry Online. Emily Dickinson, Joy Harjo, Pat Mora, Nora Naranjo-Morse, Mary Oliver, Simon Ortiz, Pattiann Rogers, Gary Snyder. See also Selected Poems by Women
  • The Romantics: Nature, Beauty, Power-- nature poetry from the British and American Romantic era.
    
    

• Jazz and Literature Resources:
  • Jazz Age Literature/Culture, Part I and Jazz Age, Part II and Jazz Age Writers. Langston Hughes and other Harlem Renaissance writers, artists, musicians, and notables; F. Scott Fitzgerald, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and other modernist writers; Picasso, Dali, de Lempicka, Kandinsky, and other artists; resources on Prohibition, flappers, racial violence, sports, automobiles, aviators, art deco, movie stars, the Crash of '29, the scandals/trials of the decade, the new technologies; World War I Poetry.
  • Jazz Poetry: 1920s-30s and Jazz/Blues: 1920s-30s and Jazz Film: 1920s-present.
  • Does Jazz Put the Sin in Syncopation? 1921 article.
  • Flapper Jane. 1920s article.
  • A Flapper's Appeal to Parents. 1920s article.
  • When the Negro Was in Vogue. Selections from Langston Hughes and Thurman Wallace.
    
    

• Literature and Art
  • Arthurian Literature and Art: Celtic, Medieval--primary and secondary texts and artwork.
  • Arthurian Literature and Art: Victorian, Modern --primary and secondary texts and artwork.
  • Arthurian Legends Illustrated --the stories portrayed in paintings. Part I--The Legend Begins; Part 2--Some Tragic Lovers; Part 3--Magic and Sorcery; Part 4--Healing the Fisher King; Part 5--Galahad's Grail Quest; Part 6--The Dream Falls Apart; Part 7--The Female Quest of Remedios Varo.
  • The Ophelia Page --commentary and images.
  • Expressionist Art Gallery--images.
  • Impressionist and Ash Can Art--images and links.
  • The Monstrous Feminine in Literature and Art --gothic and grotesque texts and images
  • Art in Willa Cather's Fiction --images of paintings alluded to in Cather's writings.

• Native American Narratives and Poetry: Index. Origin/Creation Tales; Trickster Tales; Goddess Tales; Oral Poetry/Songs; Ghost Dance Songs.
  
  

• Pre-Raphaelite Women, Art, and Poetry: Index
  • Part A The Male Gaze: D. G. Rossetti
  • Part B Christina Rossetti, PR Poet
  • Part C PR Models, Lovers, Art-Sisters
  • Part D PR Art-Sisters Gallery, Pages I-IV
  • Part E PR Brotherhood Gallery
  • Part E PR Literature & Art Resources

• Simplified Medieval Britain Timeline.
  
  
• Women's Art at the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago 1893--murals, paintings, sculpture, architecture. Intro to the White City; Mary Cassatt's Lost Mural.
  
  
• Women's Short Fictions: A Nineteenth-Century Online Anthology --Lydia Maria Child; Frances Watkins Harper; Harriet Prescott Spofford; Rebecca Harding Davis; Louisa May Alcott.

Professional Education

B.A. English, Augustana College

M.A. English, University of Nebraska at Lincoln

Ph.D. English, University of Nebraska at Lincoln

Teaching Experience

May 2012 Retired (Professor Emerita)

1978-2012 Pittsburg State University

1975-1978 Texas Tech University

1969-1975 University of Nebraska--Lincoln

Teaching Specialties

American Literature; American Drama

Emily Dickinson; Gothic American Literature;

Women Writers; Women's Studies;

Afro-Caribbean and International Literatures

Selected Publications

Sarah Orne Jewett; Willa Cather; Ernest Hemingway;

Muriel Rukeyser; Anne Sexton; Susanna Rowson;

Harriet Waters Preston; Ellen Peck; Miriam Coles Harris;

Agnes Smedley; Gwendolyn Brooks; Rebecca Harding Davis;

Earlier American Women Playwrights; Bibliography of

Earlier American Women Playwrights; Pre-Raphaelite Art Online;

Introd./Compiler, Native American Myths, Narratives, & Songs;

The Goddess in Toni Morrison and Leslie Marmon Silko;

Sylvia Plath's Gothic Poetry; editor of/contributor to several

regional/state women's rights newsletters; book reviews;

Co-editor and introd., The Emerging 'New Woman':
Stories by American Women Writers 1865-1917

Recent Conference Papers

American Women Dramatists; Sylvia Plath;

19th Century Feminist Critical Foremothers;

Flannery O'Connor; Toni Morrison; Bharati Mukherjee;

Post-Colonial and Feminist Theory; Michelle Cliff;

Eco-feminist Literature on the Web; Teaching

American Realism; Jazz Age Literature and Culture;

Suzan-Lori Parks

Watertown High School: Class of 61 web pages

Comments/Suggestions: knichols11@cox.net

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Updated: 2-26-17