Session Details

Friday, 29 December

453. Working in the Vineyard: Women of Color as Teachers and Laborers in the Academy

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., 309, Philadelphia Marriott

Program arranged by the MLA Committee on the Status of Women in the Profession

Presiding: Joyce Ann Joyce, Temple Univ.

1. “’Buked and Scorned: The Aesthetics of Labor for African American Literature Junior Faculty Members,” Tomeiko Ashford Carter, Florida State Univ.

2. “An African Woman Workin’ in One Historically Black College: Creating a Political Asylum,” Ramona L. Hyman, Oakwood Coll.

3. “Women of Color and the Vineyard: A Counter Slave Narrative,” Yi-Chun Tricia Lin, Southern Connecticut State Univ.

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