Jennifer Tuttle delivers the Plenary Address at the Fifth International Conference on Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Jennifer Tuttle, Ph.D., Dorothy M. Healy Chair and Associate Professor of English, delivered the Plenary Address at the Fifth International Conference on Charlotte Perkins Gilman, June 17-19, 2011, at the University of Montana, Missoula.  Titled "Was Gilman a California Writer?", Tuttle's talk addressed the Conference theme of "Gilman Goes West," assessing the degree to which Gilman, a turn-of-the-century writer and reformer usually associated with New England, embraced her role in California's nascent literary culture of 1890s Pasadena.  At this conference, Tuttle also presented a paper called "'scrappy, imperfect, desperately earnest': Recovering the Work of Charlotte Perkins Gilman."