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Live! From The Library : Little Women - May 2018

Scholars of Louisa May Alcott will share their perspectives on the importance of Little Women, which celebrates its 150th anniversary this year. Discussion will include the novel’s historical and cultural context, reflect on its influence, and its impact on 21st century popular culture. The panel will also engage the audience in a discussion about why Alcott’s novel endures. A lively time will be had by all! A three-part television adaptation of Little Women premieres on Sunday, May 13 on PBS Masterpiece. Gregory Eiselein and Anne Phillips are both Professors of English at Kansas State University. They have edited four books on Alcott: The Louisa May Alcott Encyclopedia, the Norton Critical Edition of Little Women, and two Alcott-focused volumes for Salem Press’ Critical Insights Series. They will team-teach an upper-level literature course on Alcott’s life and works for Kansas State University in Fall 2018. Sandra Harbert Petrulionis is Distinguished Professor of English and American Studies at Penn State University, Altoona. She teaches 19th-century American literature classes and has published several works on the Transcendentalist neighbors and community of Louisa May Alcott’s Concord. Marlowe Daly-Galeano teaches American literature and humanities at Lewis-Clark State College in Lewiston, Idaho. In addition to all things Alcott, her scholarly interests include nineteenth-century American women, regionalism, the pedagogy of social justice, and exploring and teaching about Hells Canyon, North America’s deepest gorge. Christine Doyle is a Professor of English at Central Connecticut State University and the author of Louisa May Alcott and Charlotte Bronte: Transatlantic Translations. Melissa McFarland Pennell is a professor of English at University of Massachusetts Lowell. She specializes in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American literature and regularly teaches work by Louisa May Alcott in her courses.