Ph.D., Emory University
Professor
Office: Living Learning Academic 216
Phone: (828) 262-6541
E-mail:
mcfaddenmh@appstate.edu
Curriculum Vitae (pdf format)
Maggie McFadden has acquired some new jobs in the past few years, and all of them are related to Women's Studies (surprise, surprise). She is now teaching a Women's Studies Colloquium, Women in European History, and for the first time in awhile, Feminist Theories. She also teaches in the Watauga College Core, in CEW (Civilizations East and West), working on various units in world history, always trying to make sure that the curriculum is sufficiently engendered. She advises all Women's Studies majors and minors, but is no longer the Director of Women's Studies, having passed the torch to Dr. Sandie Gravett of the Department of Philosophy and Religion.
Instead, as of July 1997, she is the editor of the National Women's Studies Association Journal, a triennial scholarly journal which publishes interdisciplinary research in women's studies, as well as op/ed pieces and book reviews. The NWSA Journal came to Appalachian for a four-year term after extensive lobbying by Maggie and her women's studies colleagues, supported generously by Provost Harvey Durham and Academic Affairs. The new offices are in IG Greer (where the Registrar's Office used to be), and are also the home of a new computer, a new Managing Editor, and two new graduate assistants. The staff has finished its first issue and is now working hard on a special issue on Affirmative Action, as well as an issue entitled, "Woman Created, Woman Transfigured, Woman Consumed" which will problematize the issue of women world celebrities, past and present.
Maggie has traveled to international Women's Studies conferences in Costa Rica, Canada, and Australia in the past few years, as well as returning to Finland three times since 1991-92, her Fulbright year at the Institute of Women's Studies at Abo Akademi University in Finland. She has continued her work on comparative women's history, especially Europe and North America, and has finally completed her 12-year "magnum opus." Entitled Golden Cables of Sympathy: The Transatlantic Sources of Nineteenth Century Feminism, published by the University Press of Kentucky. She finds that sisterhood is indeed powerful, especially if one is careful not to claim too much kin (to borrow a phrase from Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles)!
Maggie's relaxation continues to be gardening and cooking, and she is always looking for new ways to use the myriad varieties of hot peppers she grows (what can you expect from a child of the Southwest?). Her latest culinary triumph is a blackened chicken salad with jalapeno jelly/Balsamic vinegar sauce, served with sundried tomato and roasted garlic bruschetta.
Recent Publications:
"Anna Doyle Wheeler (1785-1848): Philosopher, Socialist, Feminist" reprinted in Hypatia's Daughters: 1500 Years of Women Philosophers to be published by Indiana University Press in 1996.
"Essay-review of Walking in the Shade: Vol. 2 of Doris Lessing's Autobiography (1997)," in Magill's Literary Annual 1997.
"Taking on the World: U.S. Women Scholars and Their fulbright Adventures," Anna Shannon Elfenbein, Linda E. Lucas, Barbara C. Ewell,
Kathryn Cirksena, and Margaret McFadden, National Women's Studies Association Journal, 10,1 (Spring 1998), 57-78.
Golden Cables of Sympathy: The Transatlantic Sources of Nineteenth Century Feminism, University Press of Kentucky, 1999.
Currently Editor, NWSA Journal, the scholarly journal of the National Women's Studies Association, published by Indiana
University Press.
