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Dr. Melissa J. Homestead

@ProfHomestead

"The Only Wonderful Things: The Creative Partnership of Willa Cather and Edith Lewis," Oxford University Press 4/1/2021. English professor UNL, opinions my own.

 Lincoln, NE
Joined February 2020
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Looking at Willa Cather’s Lesbian Partnership and Domestic World

Looking at Willa Cather’s Lesbian Partnership and Domestic World

In 1930, the novelist Willa Cather and her partner, advertising copywriter Edith Lewis, spent six months in Europe. In the hot month of August, they stayed at an old hotel in the spa town Aix-les-B…

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#academictwitter a funded two year M.A. opportunity working on Willa Cather. Application deadline December 1.
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The Cather assistantship is also described here unl.edu/english/ma#ta
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Link to general information about our graduate program in English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln here, including a link to the application system unl.edu/english/graduate
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If you want an informed take on the life of #willacather, don't rely on a recent trade biography melissahomestead.com/uncateg…
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Read my response to it, "Willa Cather was here, was queer, get used to it."
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@unlcas28 Nov 2023
.@ProfHomestead and @carsonvaughan speaking at the induction of the late Willa Cather into @PhiBetaKappa. – at Lincoln, NE
Carson Vaughan speaking at the Willa Cather PBK induction

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Melissa Homestead speaking at the Willa Cather PBK induction.

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Birthday cake for Willa Cather

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Hugh Ryan@Hugh_Ryan15 Jun 2023
Join me next week to hear all about the rapidly changing nature of Greenwich Village during the time Willa Cather lived there with Edith Lewis!
National Willa Cather Center (@WillaCatherFdn) profile pictureNational Willa Cather Center@WillaCatherFdn15 Jun 2023
Our June ENEWS! #WillaCather Statue Unveiled & 18th Int’l Cather Seminar @TheNewSchool (reg. by June 16!) • Free talks in NYC: @Hugh_Ryan, Margo Jefferson, Elizabeth Kendall ”• Red Cloud in @SmithsonianMag "15 Best Small Towns to Visit in 2023" & more: mailchi.mp/willacather/wcf-j…
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Applications for a July 2023 NEH Institute on #willacather due TODAY March 3 at 11:59 p.m. PACIFIC TIME! Get your applications in soon! Acceptance comes with a stipend to cover costs of attendance! Stop hesitating, start applying. cather-institute.unl.edu
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Applications for a July 2023 NEH Institute on #willacather due March 3rd! Get your applications in soon! Acceptance comes with a stipend to cover costs of attendance! cather-institute.unl.edu/
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486 The Creative Partnership of Willa Cather & Edith Lewis (with…

What was Willa Cather's life really like? Was she - as is often thought - a solitary artist, painstakingly crafting her novels about the Great Plains? Or did she ac…

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@WesternAmerica1 applications for this NEH Institute on Willa Cather: Place and Archive are due March 3. Susan Maher, Jenn Ladion @jkl18105, and Walter Echo-Hawk are participating faculty and @emilyjane_rau is associate director. cather-institute.unl.edu
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Advanced graduate students and non-tenured/non-tenure track faculty welcome!
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@AmLit_ALA, interested in archives, LGBTQ lit, digital humanities, place based approaches to literature, including settler colonial studies? Applications due March 3 for Willa Cather: Place and Archive. Join us in Lincoln and Red Cloud in July cather-institute.unl.edu
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Advanced graduate students and non-tenured/non-tenure track faculty welcome!
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Members of @asle_us, applications for this NEH Institute on Willa Cather: Place and Archive are due March 3. Susan Maher, Jenn Ladino @jkl18105, and Walter Echo-Hawk are participating faculty and @emilyjane_rau is associate director. cather-institute.unl.edu
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Advanced graduate students and non-tenured/non-tenure trace faculty welcome!
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Stephanie Opperman@steph_opp23 Jan 2023
Excited to share that we received an @NEHgov grant to work with students on collecting oral histories related to the life and writings of Flannery O'Connor in Milledgeville. @GeorgiaCollege #NEHGrant bit.ly/3wkguZz
NEH Announces $28.1 Million for 204 Humanities Projects Nationwide

NEH Announces $28.1 Million for 204 Humanities Projects Nationwide

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Higher ed faculty and advanced grad students, apply for a July 2023 @NEHgov Institute to study the works of Willa Cather, explore archives at @UNLincoln and @WillaCatherFdn, and experience places associated Cather’s Nebraska fiction. #NEHLearntogether #willacather #wildforwilla
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NEH Education@NEH_Education1 Dec 2022
📢THEY'RE HERE Check out the 36 new NEH-funded Institutes for K-12 educators and higher education faculty. From Willa Cather to Roman comedy to Harlem’s education movements, it’s another slate of diverse, challenging programs. More here👇 bit.ly/3qFuNq3
Black and white image of Willa Cather in white, long sleeved shirt, with a long knotted tie around her collar. Her arms are crossed.

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A graphic image with The Performance of Roman Comedy in black letters across the top. Boston College and Wake Forest University Chestnut Hill, MA July 9 -August 4, 2023 are written in white underneath. There are 4 stylized illustrations of people walking, dancing and carrying two long rods.

ALT A graphic image with The Performance of Roman Comedy in black letters across the top. Boston College and Wake Forest University Chestnut Hill, MA July 9 -August 4, 2023 are written in white underneath. There are 4 stylized illustrations of people walking, dancing and carrying two long rods.

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library. “Bird’s eye view of West 125th Street, Harlem, looking west from Seventh Avenue, 1943” New York Public Library Digital Collections. http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/74e15565-41f9-f45a-e040-e00a18066a9b

ALT Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library. “Bird’s eye view of West 125th Street, Harlem, looking west from Seventh Avenue, 1943” New York Public Library Digital Collections. http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/74e15565-41f9-f45a-e040-e00a18066a9b

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We're almost there, close to completing the Complete Letters of #willacather news.unl.edu/newsrooms/today…
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November 15th is the deadline for submitting essays to Cather Studies on the topic of "Willa Cather's Letters/Willa Cather and Letters" cather.unl.edu/writings/lett…
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Are you counseling students applying to graduate programs in English? Would any of them be good candidates for this two year funded research assistantship in #willacather studies to earn an M.A. at the University of Nebrasa-Lincoln? Please send them our way!
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Sorry the links aren't clickable in a JPG. go.unl.edu/english-grad
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