Scholarly work focuses on journalist

Dr. Emily VanDette of the Department of English continues her scholarly work surrounding pioneering 19th century journalist Fanny Fern's legacy. 

Her contributions include a book, “A Fanny Fern Reader: Selections by a Pioneering 19th-Century Woman Journalist,” published by SUNY Press. The SUNY Press blog also published a short piece she wrote to highlight Fern's legacy for Women's History Month, "'Keep him well fed and languid': Hangry Husbands and Fanny Fern's Iconic Feminist Satire."

Dr. VanDette also gave a public talk for a book launch event at Patterson Library in Westfield, NY in March in honor of Women's History Month, and presented a research paper at the American Literature Association Annual Conference in Boston, MA, in May. Her talk was titled, “’Are Women People?' Feminist satire in the newspaper writing of Fanny Fern and Alice Duer Miller." 

VanDette has been teaching Fern's writing in various Fredonia classrooms for the past two decades.