The Alice Cary Society will host both a roundtable session and inaugural business meeting at the 2026 American Literature Association conference in Chicago, Illinois, May 20–23, 2026
Roundtable: Clovernook and Beyond: How and Why Alice Cary Still Matters
Moderator: John A. Staunton, Eastern Michigan University
Prepared remarks from Judith Fetterley, University at Albany, State University of New York
“‘Having Our Way’: Alice Cary’s Children,” Monika Elbert, Montclair State University
“Alice Cary’s ‘Weirdness,’” Mikki Galliher, Blue Mountain Christian University
“Taming the Wild Man: Death, Wildness, and Wilderness in Alice Cary’s Clovernook, Adelyn Olson, Independent Scholar
“A Story of Today: Hagar and Alice Cary’s Impact on Contemporary Women Writers,” Leanne Phillips, Independent Scholar
“Alice Cary and/or ‘Patty Lee’: Double-billing in the 1850s Literary Scene,” John Staunton, Eastern Michigan University
“…of too somber a tone”: Narrating a National Story of Neighborhood in Alice Cary’s
Clovernook; or Recollections of our Neighborhood in the West, Series 1 and 2, Michelle Wood, Cedarville University
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