Kate Chopin Panels at 2025 ALA in Boston

The Kate Chopin International Society will sponsor two panels at the 2025 American Literature Association conference in Boston, Massachusetts, May 21–24, 2025

Kate Chopin in the Classroom / Teaching Through Technology

Chair: Quinn Moyer, Duquesne University

“Edna Pontellier’s Instagram Profile: Teaching The Awakening.” Heather Ostman, SUNY Westchester Community College

“Teaching Chopin in the 21st Century: Social Media and the Feminist Profile.” Elif S. Armbruster, Suffolk University

“Revealing Threads of Narrative Therapy in Her Feminist Works” Patricia Rossi, Independent Scholar

“Existentialism and Vagabond Women: Teaching Kate Chopin in the Contemporary Classroom” Stacy Stingle, Louisiana State University

Existential Prisons: Freedom, Choice, and Authenticity in Kate Chopin

Chair: Stacy Stingle, Louisiana State University

“Indeterminacy and Ephemerality as Possibility in the Fiction of Kate Chopin.” Quinn Moyer, Duquesne University

“Existentialist Authenticity and Friedrich Schleiermacher’s Concept of ‘Eigenthümlichkeit’: Understanding a Woman’s Choice in Kate Chopin’s ‘A Point at Issue.’” Heidi Podlasli-Labrenz

“The Queer Nature of Liminal Spaces in Kate Chopin’s The Awakening.” Lee Cotman, SUNY Empire State University

Narrative Chance, Cinematic Choices, and Visions of a ‘True Self’ in Film Adaptations of Chopin.” John Staunton, Eastern Michigan University

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If you want to read about Kate Chopin presentations at the American Literature Association conferences and other conferences since 2005, you may want to check the details of the presentations.

If you’re looking for another conference where you could present your work, you may want to check the University of Pennsylvania site.