Women's Changing Narratives

01/23/2025

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/01/trump-inauguration-kamala-harris.html

She completely changed me.

06/27/2022

Peanuts was a place where female athletes saw their presence on the playing field explicitly supported.

06/24/2022

It’s a complicated day for women in the U.S.

06/05/2022

I am watching a special about Queen Elizabeth. The first part of the program has been about her figure and her fashion sense. I can't imagine a documentary about a king would explore his sense of fashion.

03/17/2022

If you couldn't see it before, now you definitely will.

11/19/2021

The judge who sentenced the man, Christopher Belter, said that he had “agonized” over the decision but that incarceration wasn’t “appropriate.”

11/05/2021

The National Association of Black Storytellers, Inc. 39th Annual National Black Storytelling Festival & Conference Pre-Festival Free Community Virtual...

10/14/2021

Ginny Hawker and Mary Linsheid will demonstrate old-time ballad singing on Sunday, Oct. 17, at 2:00 p.m. We will be recording this presentation for our online curriculum, The Trunk of Traditional Tunes. Ginny and Mary need an audience to make this work. Please help us. RSVP by calling 304-367-4403.

10/13/2021

Our AmeriCorps member, Melissa Nichols, has organized a workshop about preserving family history. Please join us as part of our November Second Saturday.

10/10/2021

What Does It Take to Be an Italian American Woman Writer in Appalachia?

Pushcart Prize nominated author, scholar, and educator, Dr. Nancy Caronia, will speak at the Folklife Center on Monday, October 25, at 7:00 p.m. about how West Virginia author Denise Giardina seamlessly weaves important discussions of Italian immigration into larger narratives of West Virginia coal mining history. Giardina’s fiction is central to understanding the complexity of Italian immigration beyond the borders of urban areas in the northeast and Chicago. Giardina’s work has not only contributed insights into Italian immigration, but also paved the way for Italian American women writers born in Appalachia like Marie Manilla, Andriana Trigiani, and Diana Pishner Walker.

Caronia is a Teaching Associate Professor in the Department of English at West Virginia University.. She received a West Virginia Humanities Council grant to work on a chapter about Giardina’s Storming Heaven for her book-in-progress Permeable Boundaries: Intimacy and Activism in the Work of Women Writers of Italian Descent.

This event is free and open to the public. To RSVP, call 304-367-4403. A reception will follow.