Laini Kavaloski-Pront

Edgewood College
Madison, WI

Scholarly Activities
(Selected)

  Forthcoming essay, "Literature's Stake in the State,"  in a collection titled Between Worlds, published by Pace University, 2010.

     Presenter at the 2008 Edgewood College Faculty Colloquium, Madison, WI:
“The Larynx of Testimony: Reconfiguring Memoir and Identity in the Politics of the Third World in Edwidge Danticat’s     Brother, I’m Dying.” Sept. 2008

     Presenter at the National Women’s Studies Association Conference, Cincinnati, OH:
“Reclaiming the Tradition of the Bawdy Heroine: Fairy Tale Revisions in the Classroom.” June,            2008

     Panel Chair at American Culture Association national Conference, San Francisco, CA:            “Southern Literature Panel: Slaying Time.” March, 2008

     Presenter at Popular Culture and American Culture Association National Conference, San Francisco, CA:
“Between Endless Repetition and the Soundless Nothing: Ethical Narratives in Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom!  and Go Down, Moses.”  March, 2008

     Presenter at Graduate Symposium, Hebrew University Jerusalem, Israel:
“The Figure of the Female Heroine in the Comic Tales of the Brothers Grimm, Charles Perrault and Andrew Lang.” January 2002 

     Guest speaker on Public Radio One, Jerusalem, Israel: 
“Fairy Tales as a Cultural Influence in the Twenty-First Century.” January 2002

     Presenter at Wisconsin Institute for War and Conflict Studies Conference, Stevens Point, Wisconsin:
“Challenges of Masculinity: Vietnam Veterans and PTSD.” April 1988