Description: Taking inspiration from Sarah Blackwood’s 2018 Los Angeles Review of Books essay “Is Motherhood a Genre?” and the burgeoning genre of contemporary “mom lit,” panelists reconsider what it means to read the form and structure of motherhood now and reflect on the way contemporary mom lit might prompt us to reexamine the literary genres and horizons of motherhood in previous moments.

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Speakers

Austin Carter, U of California, Irvine

J. Michelle Coghlan, U of Manchester

Rebecca Rainof, Princeton U

Dara Rossman Regaignon, New York U

Andrea M. Scott, Pitzer C

Ruth Williams, William Jewell C

Presider

Sarah Blackwood, Pace U, NY