Resources: My Web Pages

• Aint I a Woman? Literature of Slavery and Freedom, Part I and Part II and Part III-- primary and secondary works by/about 19th and 20th century Afro-Americans. Covers abolitionist literature, slave narratives, neo-slave and freedom literature, history, issues, criticism.
  
  
• American Realism Authors and Contexts: List of primary and secondary works by/about authors. Links to historical and cultural contexts, including Gilded Age impressionists and Ashcan School artists.
  
  
• Eco-Literature/Nature-Writing:
  • Art Tours. 19th Century Landscape Art, Hudson River Valley Painters, Modern Women Artists (Frieda Kahlo, Georgia O'Keefe, Judy Chicago, Nora Naranjo-Morse, Betty LaDuke, Betye Saar, Faith Ringgold, Barbara Kruger), Ecofeminist Art.
  • Susan Fenimore Cooper's Rural Hours
  • Margaret Fuller's Magnolia and Leila and Seeress and Mariana
  • Gloria Orenstein's Reflowering of the Goddess
  • Gender and Nature Criticism--excerpts from scholarly studies.
  • Eco-Poetry Online. Emily Dickinson, Joy Harjo, Pat Mora, Nora Naranjo-Morse, Mary Oliver, Simon Ortiz, Pattiann Rogers, Gary Snyder. See also Selected Poems by Women
  • The Romantics: Nature, Beauty, Power-- nature poetry from the British and American Romantic era.
    
    

• Goddess Myth Projects. Gorgons, Medusa, Athena; Kali; Eve, Lilith; Amazons, Artemis; Persephone, Demeter, Hecate; Gaia; Orisha, Yemaya, Mami Wata, Tonantzin, Coatlique, Guadelupe, Quan Yin, Freya; St. Brigid; Ianna, Ishtar, Aprodite; Isis, Mary; Spider Woman, Changing Woman; and others.
  
  
• Jazz and Literature Resources:
  • Jazz Age Literature/Culture, Part I and Jazz Age, Part II and Jazz Age Writers. Langston Hughes and other Harlem Renaissance writers, artists, musicians, and notables; F. Scott Fitzgerald, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and other modernist writers; Picasso, Dali, de Lempicka, Kandinsky, and other artists; resources on Prohibition, flappers, racial violence, sports, automobiles, aviators, art deco, movie stars, the Crash of '29, the scandals/trials of the decade, the new technologies; World War I Poetry.
  • Jazz Poetry: 1920s-30s and Jazz/Blues: 1920s-30s and Jazz Film: 1920s-present.
  • Does Jazz Put the Sin in Syncopation? 1921 article.
  • Flapper Jane. 1920s article.
  • A Flapper's Appeal to Parents. 1920s article.
  • When the Negro Was in Vogue. Selections from Langston Hughes and Thurman Wallace.
    
    

• Literature and Art
  • Arthurian Literature and Art: Celtic, Medieval--primary and secondary texts and artwork.
  • Arthurian Literature and Art: Victorian, Modern --primary and secondary texts and artwork.
  • Arthurian Legends Illustrated --the stories portrayed in paintings. Part I--The Legend Begins; Part 2--Some Tragic Lovers; Part 3--Magic and Sorcery; Part 4--Healing the Fisher King; Part 5--Galahad's Grail Quest; Part 6--The Dream Falls Apart; Part 7--The Female Quest of Remedios Varo.
  • The Ophelia Page --commentary and images.
  • Expressionist Art Gallery--images.
  • Impressionist and Ash Can Art--images and links.
  • The Monstrous Feminine in Literature and Art --gothic and grotesque texts and images
  • Art in Willa Cather's Fiction --images of paintings alluded to in Cather's writings.

• Native American Narratives and Poetry: Index. Origin/Creation tales; Trickster Tales; Oral Poetry/Songs. See also Copway, The Life of Kah-ge-ga-gah-bowh. Selections from Chapters 1-3.
  
  

• Post-Colonial Literatures:--under construction
  • African Literatures
  • The Empire Writes Back: Caribbean Literature. Resources.
    
    

• Pre-Raphaelite Women, Art, and Poetry: Index
  • Part A The Male Gaze: D. G. Rossetti
  • Part B Christina Rossetti, PR Poet
  • Part C PR Models, Lovers, Art-Sisters
  • Part D Pre-Raphaelite Art-Sisters Gallery, Pages I-IV
  • Part E Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood Gallery
  • Part F Literature and Art Resources

• A Simplified Medieval Britain Timeline.
  
  
• Women's Art at the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago 1893--murals, paintings, sculpture, architecture. Intro to the White City; Mary Cassatt's Lost Mural.
  
  
• Women's Short Fictions: A Nineteenth-Century Online Anthology --Lydia Maria Child; Frances Watkins Harper; Harriet Prescott Spofford; Rebecca Harding Davis; Louisa May Alcott.

Professional Education

B.A. English, Augustana College

M.A. English, University of Nebraska at Lincoln

Ph.D. English, University of Nebraska at Lincoln

Teaching Experience

1978-2004 Pittsburg State University

1975-1978 Texas Tech University

1969-1975 University of Nebraska--Lincoln

Teaching Specialties

American Literature; American Drama

Emily Dickinson; Women Writers; Women's Studies;

Literature and the Environment; African Literatures

Selected Publications

Willa Cather; Ernest Hemingway; Muriel Rukeyser;

Anne Sexton; Susanna Rowson; Harriet Waters Preston;

Ellen Peck; Miriam Coles Harris; Agnes Smedley;

Gwendolyn Brooks; Rebecca Harding Davis; Native American

Tales/Songs; Earlier American Women Playwrights;

Bibliography of Earlier American Women Playwrights;

Pre-Raphaelite Art Online; Native American Myths, Narratives,

& Songs (intro./editor); editor of/contributor to

several regional/state women's rights newsletters;

book reviews

Recent Conference Papers

American Women Dramatists; Sylvia Plath;

19th Century Feminist Critical Foremothers;

Flannery O'Connor; Toni Morrison; Bharati Mukherjee;

Post-Colonial and Feminist Theory; Michelle Cliff;

Eco-feminist Literature on the Web; Teaching

American Realism; Jazz Age Literature and Culture;

Suzan-Lori Parks

Comments/Suggestions: knichols@pittstate.edu

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Updated: 3-1-08