9:00am

Welcome
Melissa Homestead, Symposium Director

9:15am

SUSAN BELASCO, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
"The Significance of Periodicals for Research and Teaching in American Literature"
Dr. Belasco is Professor of English, President of the Research Society for American Periodicals and co-editor of Periodical Literature in Nineteenth-Century America (University Press of Virginia 1995).

Break

10:30am

ANDREW JEWELL, University of Nebraska-Lincoln and
KARI RONNING, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
"The Willa Cather Journalism Project: Editing an electronic edition of Cather's journalistic writings"
Dr. Jewell is Assistant Professor of Digital Projects at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries, editor of the Willa Cather Archive and co-director of the Willa Cather Journalism project.
Dr. Ronning is Editor, The Willa Cather Scholarly Edition at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and co-director of the Willa Cather Journalism project.

Lunch, UNL Campus Union

1:00pm

Keynote Speaker
ELLEN GRUBER GARVEY, New Jersey City University
"'Important, responsible work': Cather's Critical Editorial Career"
Dr. Garvey is Associate Professor of English, past president of the Research Society for American Periodicals and is author of The Adman in the Parlor: Magazines and the Gendering of Consumer Culture, 1880s to 1910s (Oxford University Press 1996) and the foreword to Blue Pencils and Hidden Hands: Women Editing Periodicals, 1830-1910 (Northeastern University Press 2004).

Break

2:15pm

CHARLES JOHANNINGSMEIER, University of Nebraska-Omaha
"The Cultural Work of The Professor's House in Collier's Weekly: How to Understand Historical Readers' Interactions with Cather's Serialized Texts."
Dr. Johanningsmeier is Associate Professor of English, author of Fiction and the American Literary Marketplace: The Role of Newspaper Syndicates in America, 1860-1900 (Cambridge University Press 1997) and many articles on American fiction in periodical contexts.

Break

3:30pm

MELISSA J. HOMESTEAD, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
"An Obscured Destiny: Edith Lewis's Advertising Career at the J. Walter Thompson Co. as a Context for Reading Cather's Fiction Published in Women's Magazines"
Dr. Homestead is Associate Professor of English and author of American Women Authors and Literary Property, 1822-1869 (Cambridge University Press 2005).

4:45pm

Reception, Seaton Hall 3rd floor conference room