"Universal Love" and "Free Opinion": What Lydia Maria Child Can Teach Us about Archival Research and Its Relevance for Social Justice Pedagogy

Sarah Olivier

University of Colorado, Denver

Sarah M. Olivier recently completed her Ph.D. at the University of Denver, where her dissertation, A Raucous Entertainment: Melodrama, Race, and the Search for Moral Legibility in Nineteenth-Century America won the Evan Frankel Dissertation Fellowship. She has taught courses in American Literature, Gender and Women’s Studies, Composition, and Film for the past twelve years at the University of Colorado at Denver and other institutions. She is also the guest editor and contributor of a recent forum in Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers entitled “Envisioning America’s Future: Lydia Maria Child and Social Justice.”

Abstract

Also turning to the paper trails of race and its narratives, in “‘Universal Love’ and ‘Free Opinion’: What Lydia Maria Child Can Teach Us about Archival Research and Its Relevance for Social Justice Pedagogy," Sarah... [ view full abstract ]

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  1. Sarah Olivier (University of Colorado, Denver)

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P44 » Untangling “Difficult Collaborations”: Nineteenth-Century Archives in the Climate of Twenty-First Century Classrooms (14:00 - Friday, 23rd March, Enchantment A)

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