Melissa J. Homestead, professor of English and program faculty in women's and gender studies, is featured in the lead essay in a new volume of Cather Studies, Willa Cather and the 19th Century. Her essay is "Willa Cather, Sarah Orne Jewett, and the Historiography of Lesbian Sexuality." The volume was published by the University of Nebraska Press. She also appears as a talking head in the Nebraska Education Television documentary "Yours, Willa Cather" about Cather's letters, which debuted on September 21st. Check the NET website for additional broadcast times, or you can stream the documentary on the PBS website or through the PBS app for the IPad.
October 2, 2015