Etta M. Madden
Associate Professor of English
Missouri State University
901 S. National Ave.
Springfield, MO 65804
(417) 836-5422
EttaMadden@missouristate.edu

EDUCATION
Ph.D. English, University of New Hampshire, 1995
M.A. English Language and Literature, University of Virginia, 1986
B.A. Biology and English, Magna Cum Laude, Harding University, 1984

ACADEMIC AND HUMANITIES ADMINISTRATION

           

Missouri State University

             

§         Interim Director, School of Social Work, 2006-

§         Coordinator of Graduate & Undergraduate Literature, Department of English, 2006-

§         Faculty and Academic Director, Missouri London Program, Fall 2004

§         Assistant to the Dean, College of Arts and Letters (COAL), 1999

§         Administrative Intern to the Dean, COAL, 1998-99

 

New Hampshire Humanities Council

 

§         Project Director, NEH-funded Exemplary Project: “The Ninth State: New Hampshire and the New Nation,” 1987-88

§         Public Relations and Development, 1988

 

Ash Lawn Opera Festival   Charlottesville, Virginia

 

§         Project Director, Lecture Series funded by Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and Public Policy, 1985

           

Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and Public Policy Charlottesville, Virginia

                       

§         Media Resource Service Assistant, 1985-86

           

Center for the Liberal Arts, University of Virginia

 

§         Graduate Assistant (1984-86) for newly-founded center co-funded by NEH and the university

 

 

UNIVERSITY SERVICE AND LEADERSHIP

 

Missouri State University

 

University Level

§         Chair, Higher Learning Commission (HLC) Monitoring Committee, 2006-

§         Faculty Relations Committee, 2006-

§         Ad Hoc Committee on GEP 397, 2006-

§         Consortium the Study of American Religions, Co-Founder, 2006-

§         Learning Communities Facilitator on Women’s Body Issues, with Deborah Cox, 2006-

§         HLC Self-study Steering Committee, Chair of Writing Sub-committee, 2002-05

§         Search Committee, Provost, 2005-06

§         Search Committee, COAL Dean, 2005-06

§         Chair, Grants, Fellowships, and Faculty Leave Committee, 2005-06 (member 03-05)

§         Convocation Committee, 2001-03

§         Enrollment Management Committee, 1999-00

§         Recruitment Committee, 1998-99

§         Articulation Agreements Committee, 1998-99

 

College Level

§         Chair, COAL Recruitment Committee, 1998-99

§         Chair, COAL Scholastic Action Appeals Committee, 1998-99

§         Representative, SMSU Leadership: A Pilot Project, 1997-98

 

Departmental Level

 

§         Personnel, 2003-05

§         Outreach, Promotions, & Recruitment, 1997-00; Chair, 00-01; 05-06

§         Library Representative, 2001

§         Portfolio, 2001-02

§         Folklorist Search, 2001

§         FREUP (Building Renovation), 2001-

§         Graduate, 1996-98; 00

§         Ethnic-American Literature Professor Search, 1996-97

§         Library, 1995-96

           

University of New Hampshire

§         Graduate Student Committee, English Department, 1991-92

AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS

§         Faculty Research Grant (with Dr. Deborah Cox), Graduate College, Missouri State University (2006)

§         College Teaching Award, College of Arts and Letters, Missouri State University (2003)

§         Summer Faculty Fellowship, Missouri State University (2002)

§         Sabbatical Fellowship, Missouri State University (2001)

§         International Travel Award, Missouri State University (2001)

§         Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship, “Pictures of Health: Responses to Benjamin Rush’s Teachings on Temperance, 1800-1850,” Library Company of Philadelphia  (1999)

§         Funding for Results Grant, “Incorporating Technology in the Early American Literature Course,” (1999)

§         College Research Award, College of Arts and Letters, SMSU (1998)

§         Faculty Research Grant, Graduate College, SMSU (1997) 

§         Summer Faculty Fellowship, Graduate College, SMSU (1996)                                           

§         Charlotte Newcombe Dissertation Fellowships Finalist, Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation  (1993)

§         Dissertation Year Fellowship, the Graduate School, University of New Hampshire

§         (1992-93)

§         CURF Grant, UNH, for research on Milton and seventeenth-century sermon style using resources at Houghton and Widener Libraries, Harvard University  (1991)

§         Summer Fellowship for Teaching Assistants, UNH, for research on Shaker manuscripts at Sabbathday Lake, Maine, Shaker community archives  (1990)

PUBLICATIONS

Administrative Writing:

 

Building on Excellence: Missouri State University Envisions the Future. Self-Study Report for Reaccreditation by the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association. 2005. 187 manuscript pp.

 

“Writing the Report: When Initial Vision Encounters Reality.” With Linda Chadwick. A Collection of Papers on Self-Study and Institutional Improvement, 2006. Chicago: Higher Learning Commission, 2006. Vol. 4, Chap. 3: 178-182.

 

Academic Books:

 

“The Sensual and the Essential: Discourses of Diet and Nation, 1776-1850.” Work in progress.

 

Eating in Eden: Food in American Utopias. Ed. with Martha Finch. University of Nebraska Press, 2006.

 

           Bodies of Life: Shaker Literature and Literacies. Contributions to the Study of Religion. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1998.

                                   

                        Articles:

                       

“‘To Make a Figure’: Benjamin Rush’s Rhetorical Self-Construction and Scientific Authorship.” Early American Literature 41.2 (2006): 241-272.

 

“Science in Catharine Maria Sedgwick’s Hope Leslie (1827).” Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers 20 (2003) 1 & 2: 22-37.  Co-authored with Shelley R. Block.

 

“Cider as a Sign: Diverse Interpretations of Shaker Spirits and Spirituality.” Communal Societies 23 (2003): 45-62.

 

“Mark Catesby's Natural History and American Literary Studies.” Proceedings of the Early Ibero/Anglo Americanist Summit. May 2002. http://www.mith2umd.edu/summit/Proceedings/Madden.htm

                       

“Quaker Elizabeth Ashbridge as ’the Spectacle & discourse of the Company’: Metaphor, Synecdoche, and Synthesis.” Early American Literature 34 (1999) 2: 171-189.

 

“Reading, Writing, and the Race of Mother Figures: Shakers Rebecca Cox Jackson and Alonzo Giles Hollister.”  A Mighty Baptism: Race, Gender, and the Creation of American Protestantism. Eds. Susan Juster and Lisa MacFarlane. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1996. 210-234.

 

“Resurrecting Life through Rhetorical Ritual: A Buried Value of the Puritan Funeral Sermon.”  Early American Literature 26 (December 1991): 232-250.

 

Encyclopedia & Textbook Entries:

 

“Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790.” Heath Anthology of American Literature Vol. I. 5th ed. Ed. Paul Lauter et al. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2005. 804-807.

 

 “Elizabeth Ashbridge.” New Dictionary of National Biography. Ed. Brian Harrison. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Forthcoming 2006.

 

“William Hill Brown.” Encyclopedia of American Literature. Ed. Steven Serafin. New York: Continuum Publishers, 1999. 135-136.

 

“Timothy Dwight.” Encyclopedia of American Literature. Ed. Steven Serafin. New York: Continuum Publishers, 1999. 308-309.

 

“Sarah Wister.” American Women Prose Writers to 1820. Eds. Carla Mulford, Angela Vietto, and Amy Winans. Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol. 200. Detroit: Bruccoli Clark Layman, 1998. 419-428.

 

Book Reviews:

 

McWilliams, James E. A Revolution in Eating: How the Quest for Food Shaped America. New York: Columbia UP, 2005.  New England Quarterly. Forthcoming 2007.

 

Wergland. Glendyne R. One Shaker Life: Isaac Newton Youngs, 1793-1865. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2006. American Historical Review. Forthcoming 2006.

 

Lewis, Helen N. and Monica Appleby. Mountain Sisters: From Convent to Community in Appalachia. Lexington: UP of Kentucky, 2003. Utopian Studies 15 (2004) 1: 134-35.

 

Slaughter, Thomas P. Lewis and Clark: Reflections on Men and Wilderness. New York: Knopf, 2003. Early American Literature. 38 (2003) 3: 527-532.

 

De Wolfe, Elizabeth A. Shaking the Faith: Women, Family, and Mary Marshall Dyer's Anti-Shaker Campaign, 1815-1867. New York: Palgrave/St. Martin’s, 2002. The American Historical Review. April 2003.

 

Grace, Fran. Carry A. Nation: Retelling the Life. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 2001. Social History of Alcohol Review 17 (2002) 1&2: 76-79.

 

Fogarty, Robert S. Desire and Duty at Oneida: Tirzah Miller's Intimate Memoir. Bloomington: Indiana U P, 2000. H-Net. October 2002.

 

Thurman, Suzanne. “O, Sisters, Ain't Ye Happy?”: Gender, Family, and Community Among the Harvard and Shirley Shakers, 1781-1918. Syracuse: Syracuse UP, 2001. Communal Societies 22 (2002):155-56.

 

Dixon, Joy. Divine Feminism: Theosophy and Feminism in England: Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2001. Utopian Studies 13.1 (2002): 197-98.

 

Kienzle, Beverly Mayne and Pamela J. Walker, eds. Women Preachers and Prophets through Two Millennia of Christianity. Berkeley: U of California P, 1998. Utopian Studies 12.2 (2001): 321-23.

 

Testa, Randy-Michael. In the Valley of the Shadow: An Elegy to Lancaster County. Hanover, New Hampshire: University Press of New England, 1996. Utopian Studies. 9 (1999) 2: 328-329.

 

Howe, Daniel Walker. Making the American Self: Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1997.  Borderlines: Studies in American Culture. 5 (1998) 1: 71-73.

 

Detter, Thomas. Nellie Brown, or the Jealous Wife, with Other Sketches. 1871. Ed. and intro. Frances Smith Foster. Blacks in the American West. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1996. Borderlines: Studies in American Culture. 4 (1997) 4: 404-407.

 

 

Manuscript Reviews:

 

            Books:

§         Legacies series, Ed. Sharon M. Harris, University of Nebraska Press, 2004.

§         Northern Illinois University Press, 2004.

§         Palgrave/St. Martin’s Press, 2001.

           

Journal Articles:

      • Utopian Studies, 2002-
      • LIT: Literature, Interpretation, Theory. Regina Barreca, ed. 2002-.
      • Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers. Sharon M. Harris, Karen Dandurand, Martha Cutter, Nicole Tonkovich, eds. 2000-

 

Proposal Review:

 

National Endowment for the Humanities. 1999.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Missouri State University (formerly Southwest Missouri State University)

 

Professor of English, 2005-

Associate Professor of English, 2000-05

Missouri London Faculty, 2004.

Gender Studies Faculty, 2000-05

Graduate Faculty, 1995-2005

Assistant Professor, 1995-00

 

Graduate & upper division courses taught:

§         American Authors in London

§         “Sins and Sensationalism”: Reading Early American Prose, ENG 657 (Sp ’05)

§         “Classics” of Early American Literature, ENG 657  (Sp ’03 & Sp. ’01)

§         Early American Women Writers & the Domestic Arts, ENG 657

§         Science and Literature in the Early Republic, Intellectual Backgrounds of Literature in English, ENG 680 Reading Between the Wars, Early American Literature, ENG 657

§         Gender Issues: Food and Female Identity, ENG 580 & GST 487

§         Major American Authors: Sedgwick, Hawthoren, and Stowe, ENG 558

§         American Romantic Literature, ENG 553

§         Gender Issues: Selling Self-Image through American Autobiographies, ENG 580

§         Composition and Rhetoric in High School and Junior College, ENG 520

           

            Other courses taught:

§         American Literature I, ENG 350

§         Introduction to Women’s Literature, ENG 380 (including Honors sections)

§         Public and Private Identity in Auto/biography, GEP 397 (including Honors sections)

§         Composition, ENG 111, 120, and 150 (including Honors section)

 

University of New Hampshire

 

Graduate Instructor, 1989-95

 

Courses taught:

§         Spiritual Selves: Narratives from Augustine to the New Age, ENG 693

§         American Literature to 1865, ENG 515

§         Survey of American Literature, 1865 to the Present, ENG 516

§         Introduction to Critical Analysis, ENG 5l9

§         Freshman Composition, ENG 401

§         Expository Writing             

 

University of Virginia

 

Teaching Assistant, 1985

 

Course:

§         Literature of the South, with Professor Alan B. Howard

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

“Celebrating Abundance: Visions of Eating and Drinking in the 1816 Testimonies.”Communal Studies Association Conference, Old Economy, Pennsylvania, September 2005.

 

“Chicken Bones, Malaga Wine, and Raisins: City Tastes, Sedgwick, and Eliza Leslie.” Antebellum American Women Writers and the City Conference, sponsored by the Catharine Maria Sedgwick Society, September 2005.

 

“Eliza Leslie: ‘Filling a Need and Creating a Market.’” American Literature Association Conference, Boston, MA, May 2005.

 

“Shaking, Slaking, and Baking: Shaker Visions of Eating and Drinking.” Society of Early Americanists Conference, Alexandria, VA, March 2005.

 

“Mediating Science.” Panel Moderator, Society of Early Americanists Conference, Alexandria, VA, March 2005.

“Geographies of Women’s Spiritual Narratives: Home, Nature, and the Marketplace.” American Literature Association Conference, San Francisco, CA, May 2004.

“Of Bread and Corn.” Panel Respondent, American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, Boston, MA, March 2004.

“Places of Faith: Geographies of Contemporary Women’s Spiritual Narratives.” Southwest Conference on Christianity and Literature, Siloam Springs, AR, September 2003.

“Feeling Change: Emotion and Social Reform in the 19th Century.” Panel Moderator, Society for the Study of American Women Writers’ Conference, Fort Worth, TX, September 2003.

“Celebrity Chef Alexis Soyer and the American Cookbook Market.” Nineteenth Century Studies Association, New Orleans, LA, March 2003.

“Food in Communal Societies.” Panel Respondent, Communal Studies Association conference, Oneida, NY, September 2002.

“Benjamin Rush’s Writings on Alcohol and Narratives of Healing.” Works in Progress Seminar, Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies, Brown University, June 2002.

“Mark Catesby.” Panel on Natural History and Travel Narratives, Ibero-Anglo Early Americanist Summit, Tucson, AZ, May 2002.

“Native, Anglo, and Franco: Food and U. S. Fiction of the 1820s.” 2nd Conference on Representations of Food in Literature, Film and Other Arts. University of Texas, San Antonio, February 2002.

“Testimony as Therapy: The Failures of Contemporary Deconversion Narratives.” Rhetorics of Healing conference, University of Redlands, California, January 2002.

“Science in Catharine Maria Sedgwick’s Hope Leslie (1827).” No Sense of Discipline: A Conference on Interdisciplinarity, University of Queensland, Australia, June 2001.

“The Temperance Cookbook: A Successful Alternative to French Cookery?” Discipline, Desire, and Capitalism: New Temperance Readings, Modern Language Association meeting, Washington, DC, December 2000.

“Kelroy, Alimentary Science, and Aesthetic Experience.” Theorizing Early American Women Writers, Modern Language Association meeting, Chicago, IL, December 1999.

“Rebecca Rush Responds to the Science of Uncle Ben.” Science and Literature Association conference, Norman, OK, October 1999.

“Literacy Among the Shakers: Revising the Role of Print Culture.” Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing Conference, Madison, WS, July 1999.

“Ingesting a Panther: Literary Reactions to Alimentary Science of the Early Republic.” Society of Early Americanists Conference, Charleston, SC, March 1999.

“Cider as a Sign: Shifting Interpretations of Shaker Spirits and Spirituality.” Communal Studies Association Conference, Zoar, Ohio, October 1998.

“Temperance in Utopia: Economics, Health, and Breaking Habits.” Society for Utopian Studies Conference, Memphis, TN, October 1997.

“Utopian Hermeneutics: Quaker Elizabeth Ashbridge as ‘the Spectacle & discourse of the Company.’” “Strategies of Reading: Text and Identity in Eighteenth Century America” session, Northeast American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies Conference, Worcester, MA, September 1996.

“Recycling Captivity and Conversion in Shaker Communities.” “Voices in the Forest: Politics, Narrative, and American Frontiers” session, “Twice-Told Tales Conference,” University of Toronto, March 1996.

“Boundaries of Gender in Early New England Shakerism.” Panel Coordinator and Moderator. Communal Studies Association Conference, Oneida, NY, October 1994.

“Gendered Reading in/of the Shaker Testimonies of 1816.” Communal Studies Association Conference, October 1994.

“Dying in Community: Shaker Elegies and the Victorian Way of Death.” International Communal Studies Association Conference, New Harmony, IN, October 1993.

“The Shakers in the Twentieth Century: An Interdisciplinary Conference.” Speaker introduction for plenary session and panel moderator for concurrent session. UNH, June 1992.

“Appropriating Autobiography: ‘Rebecca Jackson’ and the Shakers.” American Women Writers of Color Conference, Salisbury State University, May 1992.

“Missionary Positions and Positioning Missionaries: Reading Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart and Arrow of God.” Graduate Student Conference, Emory University, May l99l.

“Individually Writing Communal Reality: The Church Record as Spiritual Narrative.” National Historic Communal Studies Association Annual Conference, Pittsfield, MA, October l990.

GUEST LECTURES

“Beauty and Spirituality.” National Avenue Christian Church, with Dr. Deborah Cox, July 2006.

 

“Women in the Ozarks.” Ozark Studies Institute discussion session, led with Dr. Deborah Cox, May 2006.

 

“Women’s Bodies as a Public Affair.” Panel Moderator, Missouri State University Women’s History Month. March 2006.

 

“A Little Lady Started a Great Big War?: The Writing and Reading of Uncle Tom’s Cabin.” Missouri State University Meyer Library Brown Bag Series, February 2006.

 

“Female Mystics.” National Avenue Christian Church, February 2006.

“Benjamin Franklin and American Stereotypes.” English Language Institute, Missouri State University, July 2004.

“Food in Communal Societies.” Graduate Seminar in Religious Studies, October 2002.

“The Shakers.” Institute for Mature Learning, Drury University, October 2002.

“The Oneida Community.” Institute for Mature Learning, Drury University, September 2002.

“American Utopias: The Shakers and the Oneida Community.” English Language Institute, Missouri State University, August 2002.

“Benjamin Franklin and American Stereotypes.” English Language Institute, Missouri State University, February 2002.

“The Shakers and Spiritual Autobiography.” Christ Episcopal Church, Springfield, MO. February 2000.

“Sex in Utopia: The Shakers and the Oneida Community.” Global Perspectives for the 21st Century Course, Drury College, Springfield, MO. September 1998.

“Orality, Literacy, and Progress: Shakers Rebecca Jackson and Alonzo Hollister.” Orality and Literacy Graduate Seminar, Missouri State University. April 1997.

“An Overview of the Canterbury Obituary Journal.” 22nd Annual Berkshire Shaker Seminar. Canterbury, New Hampshire, Shaker Village. July 1996.

“Constructing Selves in Early America: Mary Rowlandson, Jonathan Edwards, Olaudah Equiano, and Samson Occum.” Early American Literature Graduate Seminar, Missouri State University. October 1995.

“Mother Imagery in Shakerism.” Women's Spirituality and Earth-Centered Religions, University of New Hampshire. June 1993.

“Writings of Rebecca Jackson, African-American Visionary.” Women’s Spirituality and Earth-Centered Religions, University of New Hampshire. June 1992.

COMMUNITY SERVICE

Ecumenical Center Board Member 2001-02

United Ministries in Higher Education, Board Member, 1996-; Vice President, 1997; President, 1998-99

National Avenue Christian Church, Board Member; Outreach Department Chair, 1997-99; Outreach Foundation Trustee, 1998-2004

Barnes & Noble, Book Discussion Leader, 1997

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

Modern Language Association

 

American Studies Association

 

Society of Early Americanists

 

American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies

 

Society for the Study of American Women Writers

 

Communal Studies Association

 

Society for Utopian Studies

 

Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing

 

Conference on Christianity and Literature

nglish Language and Literature, University of Virginia, 1986
B.A. Biology and English, Magna Cum Laude, Harding University, 1984

AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS

College Teaching Award, College of Arts and Letters, Missouri State University (2003)
Summer Faculty Fellowship, Missouri State (2002)
Sabbatical Fellowship, Missouri State (2001)
International Travel Award, Missouri State (2001)
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship, "Pictures of Health: Responses to Benjamin Rush’s Teachings on Temperance, 1800-1850," Library Company of Philadelphia (1999)
Funding for Results Grant, "Incorporating Technology in the Early American Literature Course," (1999)
College Research Award, College of Arts and Letters, Missouri State (1998)
Faculty Research Grant, Graduate College, Missouri State (1997)
Summer Faculty Fellowship, Graduate College, Missouri State (1996)
Charlotte Newcombe Dissertation Fellowships Finalist, Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation (1993)
Dissertation Year Fellowship, the Graduate School, University of New Hampshire (1992-93)
CURF Grant, UNH, for research on Milton and seventeenth-century sermon style using resources at Houghton and Widener Libraries, Harvard University (1991)
Summer Fellowship for Teaching Assistants, UNH, for research on Shaker manuscripts at Sabbathday Lake, Maine, Shaker community archives (1990)

PUBLICATIONS

Books:

"The Sensual and the Essential: Discourses of Diet and Nation, 1776-1850." Work in progress.
Eating in Eden: Food in American Utopias. Ed. with Martha Finch. Essay collection under contract. University of Nebraska Press. Forthcoming 2005.
Bodies of Life: Shaker Literature and Literacies. Contributions to the Study of Religion. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1998.

Articles:

"’To Make a Figure’: Benjamin Rush’s Self-Construction and Rhetoric of Science." In progress.
"Science in Catharine Maria Sedgwick’s Hope Leslie (1827)." Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers 20 (2003) 1 & 2: 22-37. Co-authored with Shelley R. Block.
"Cider as a Sign: Shifting Interpretations of Shaker Spirits and Spirituality." Communal Societies 23 (2003): 45-62.
"Mark Catesby's Natural History and American Literary Studies." Proceedings of the Early Ibero/Anglo Americanist Summit. May 2002. <http://www.mith2umd.edu/summit/Proceedings/Madden.htm>
"Quaker Elizabeth Ashbridge as ’the Spectacle & discourse of the Company’: Metaphor, Synecdoche, and Synthesis." Early American Literature 34 (1999) 2: 171-189.
"Reading, Writing, and the Race of Mother Figures: Shakers Rebecca Cox Jackson and Alonzo Giles Hollister." A Mighty Baptism: Race, Gender, and the Creation of American Protestantism. Eds. Susan Juster and Lisa MacFarlane. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1996. 210-234.
"Resurrecting Life through Rhetorical Ritual: A Buried Value of the Puritan Funeral Sermon." Early American Literature 26 (December 1991): 232-250.

Encyclopedia & Textbook Entries:

"Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790." Heath Anthology of American Literature Vol. I. 5th ed. Lauter et al. Forthcoming.
"Elizabeth Ashbridge." New Dictionary of National Biography. Ed. Brian Harrison. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Forthcoming 2004.
"William Hill Brown." Encyclopedia of American Literature. Ed. Steven Serafin. New York: Continuum Publishers, 1999. 135-136.
"Timothy Dwight." Encyclopedia of American Literature. Ed. Steven Serafin. New York: Continuum Publishers, 1999. 308-309.
"Sarah Wister." American Women Prose Writers to 1820. Eds. Carla Mulford, Angela Vietto, and Amy Winans. Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol. 200. Detroit: Bruccoli Clark Layman, 1998. 419-428.

Reviews:

Lewis, Helen N. and Monica Appleby. Mountain Sisters: From Convent to Community in Appalachia. Lexington: UP of Kentucky, 2003. Utopian Studies. Forthcoming.
Slaughter, Thomas P. Lewis and Clark: Reflections on Men and Wilderness. New York: Knopf, 2003. Early American Literature. 38 (2003) 3: 527-532.
De Wolfe, Elizabeth A. Shaking the Faith: Women, Family, and Mary Marshall Dyer's Anti-Shaker Campaign, 1815-1867. New York: Palgrave/St. Martin’s, 2002. The American Historical Review. April 2003.
Grace, Fran. Carry A. Nation: Retelling the Life. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 2001. Social History of Alcohol Review 17 (2002) 1&2: 76-79.
Fogarty, Robert S. Desire and Duty at Oneida: Tirzah Miller's Intimate Memoir. Bloomington: Indiana U P, 2000. H-Net. October 2002.
Thurman, Suzanne. "O, Sisters, Ain't Ye Happy?": Gender, Family, and Community Among the Harvard and Shirley Shakers, 1781-1918. Syracuse: Syracuse UP, 2001. Communal Societies 22 (2002):155-56.
Dixon, Joy. Divine Feminism: Theosophy and Feminism in England: Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2001. Utopian Studies 13.1 (2002): 197-98.
Kienzle, Beverly Mayne and Pamela J. Walker, eds. Women Preachers and Prophets through Two Millennia of Christianity. Berkeley: U of California P, 1998. Utopian Studies 12.2 (2001): 321-23.
Testa, Randy-Michael. In the Valley