University of New England

Guest Speakers

The Maine Women Writers Collection maintains a diverse and lively program of guest speakers presenting readings or lectures about their work, most hosted in the Collection facility and some co-sponsored at other venues.Some recent guests have included:

Lenora Blouin, "Meeting May Sarton's Favorite Poets"

Carolyn Chute, a reading of her work

Phyllis Cole, on her book Mary Moody Emerson and the Origins of Transcendentalism

Susan Davis, on photographer Chansonetta Stanley Emmons

Elizabeth A. De Wolfe, on her book Shaking the Faith: Women, Family, and Mary Marshall Dyer's Anti-Shaker Campaign, 1815-1867

Martha Tod Dudman, a reading from Expecting to Fly: A Sixties Reckoning

Sandra M. Gilbert, "Modern Death, Millennial Mourning: The Challenge of Twentieth-Century Grief"

Rebecca Goodale, on "Threatened and Endangered" (traveling exhibition of her artist's books)

Owen Grumbling, "Liberal Education and the Subversive Tradition of Nature Writing" (highlighting the Goodale exhibition)

Hannah Holmes, reading from her book The Secret Life of Dust

Candace Kanes, "Business Women in Literature in the Early 20th Century"

Kate Kennedy, book launch for More than Petticoats: Remarkable Maine Women

Barbara Korn, on Anne Carroll Moore, first children's services librarian at the New York Public Library

Susan McHugh, "Animal Advocacy and The Case of the Fake Maine Woman Writer"

Sena Jeter Naslund, a reading of her work

Cathie Pelletier, a reading celebrating the deposit of her papers at the MWWC

Rhea Cote Robbins, on Franco-American Women Writers

Nawal El Saadawi, "Creativity, Women, and Me"

Zainab Salbi, "An Iraqi Woman Looks at War"

Dava Sobel, reading from her books The Planets, Galileo's Daughter, and Longitude

Cynthia Thayer, a reading from her book Strong for Potatoes

"Ugly Ducklings," a documentary of a play by the same name by Carolyn Gage treating the problem of bullying of gay and lesbian kids

Carol Wagner, "Women Rebuilding Cambodia"

Barbara White, on her book The Beecher Sisters