Please join us for writers Marcia Noe and Laura Duncan Fontenot’s talk on Roethke's "Frau Bauman, Frau Schmidt, and Frau Schwartze" and the Sleeping Beauty Tale.
Noe is Professor of English and Director of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. She is the author of Three Midwestern Playwrights: How Floyd Dell, George Cram Cook, and Susan Glaspell Transformed American Theatre (Indiana University Press, 2022) and The Innocent Midwest: Culture, Region, and Identity, 1793-1930 (forthcoming from Ohio University Press).
Fontenot is an instructor in the Department of English and World Languages at Southeastern Louisiana University, specializing in global Anglophone Literature, works in translation, and global mythologies, folktales, fairy tales, and legends. She earned her PhD in English Literature from Louisiana State University with a thesis on the portrayal of the migrant experience in twenty-first century magical realist literature. She is currently researching the representation of nomadic peoples in contemporary magical realist literature.
The annual Virtual Roethke Scholars series features contributors to A Field Guide to the Poetry of Theodore Roethke and is organized by editor William Barillas.
About the Speakers
Marcia Noe is Professor of English and Director of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. She is the author of Three Midwestern Playwrights: How Floyd Dell, George Cram Cook, and Susan Glaspell Transformed American Theatre (Indiana University Press, 2022) and The Innocent Midwest: Culture, Region, and Identity, 1793-1930 (forthcoming from Ohio University Press).
Laura Duncan Fontenot
is an instructor in the Department of English and World Languages at Southeastern Louisiana University, specializing in global Anglophone Literature, works in translation, and global mythologies, folktales, fairy tales, and legends. She earned her PhD in English Literature from Louisiana State University with a thesis on the portrayal of the migrant experience in twenty-first century magical realist literature. She is currently researching the representation of nomadic peoples in contemporary magical realist literature.