Additional Publications

Books

The Cambridge Introduction to Harriet Beecher Stowe, Cambridge University Press, 2007

Managing Literacy, Mothering America: Women's Narratives on Reading and Writing in the Nineteenth Century. Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2004; Paperback, 2006

Teachers’ Writing Groups: Inquiry, Reflection, and Communities of Practice. Eds. Sarah Robbins, George Seaman, Kathleen Blake Yancey and Dede Yow. Kennesaw: Kennesaw State University Press, 2006.

Writing America: Classroom Literacy and Public Engagement. Eds. Sarah Robbins and Mimi Dyer. New York, Teachers College Press of Columbia University, 2004; also authored introductory essay, “Classroom Literacies and Public Life.”

Book Projects in Progress

“You Are Helping in this Blessed Work”: An American Woman’s African Mission Publications. Co-editor with Ann Pullen, Professor of History Emerita, KSU
Status:  draft manuscript completed; editing in process; under review, Parlor Press
Description:  print edition of published writings by a missionary who served in West Africa in the early 20th century, to be linked to a companion website archiving her diaries

Border Crossers and Boundary Guides: American Women’s Cross-Cultural Teaching Narratives, 1865-1925
Status:  research completed, outline prepared, several conference papers delivered
Description:  analyses of teaching memoirs in cross-cultural conversation—e.g., reports by Caroline Alfred (Reconstruction-era teacher in Georgia) and later African American teachers' texts in The Spelman Messenger; Marion Bergess's Stiya and Zitkala Sa's responses to such texts; Nellie Arnott Darling's writing on teaching in Africa and other memoirs from the same region; Jane Addams’ accounts of Hull-House teaching and the multi-faceted responses of her “neighbors”

Authorizing Women’s Literacy: Gendering Writers and Readers in American Culture
Status:  two chapters completed and published as articles to be revised for book
Description:  case studies tracing social processes that have shaped the work of American authors in gendered terms (See a version of one chapter on Stowe, listed below, in “The Only Efficient Instrument”; see another on Oprah Winfrey, listed below)