MEGAA Symposium Keynote Speakers
Susan Morgan
Distinguished Professor of English, Miami University
Susan Morgan is Distinguished Professor of English and Women’s Studies Affiliate at Miami University. She received her Ph.D. from University of Chicago and taught at Cornell University, Stanford University, California Institute of Technology and Vassar College before coming to Miami in 1991. Her books include In the Meantime: Character and Perception on Jane Austen’s Fiction (1980), Sisters in Time: Imagining Gender in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction (1989), and Place Matters: Gendered Geography in Victorian Women’s Travel Books about Southeast Asia (1996). She is the author of many articles and has edited three Victorian travel memoirs: Anna Leonowens’s 1873 The Romance of the Harem (1991), Marianne North’s 1892 Recollections of a Happy Life, Vol 1 (1993), and Ada Pryer’s 1892 A Decade in Borneo (2001). She has received many awards, including an NEH Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Fulbright Fellowship, and the Jane Austen Society of North America North American Scholar Award. At Miami University she was appointed Distinguished Professor in 2000 and has also received the Outstanding Professor Award, the Distinguished Scholar Award and, most recently, the Outstanding Scholar of the Graduate Faculty Award. Her new book, Bombay Anna, a biography of Anna Leonowens, will be published this spring by University of California Press.
Lisa J.M. Poirier
Assistant Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Comparative Religion, Miami University
Lisa J.M. Poirier is an Assistant Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Comparative Religion at Miami University. Her essay entitled “Godmothers and Goddaughters: Catholic Women in New France” was included in the Encyclopedia of Women and Religion in North America (Indiana University Press, 2006), which received the American Historical Association’s 2006 Walter Leland Prize for best reference tool in the field of history. She has recently finished a book entitled New Religions in New France: Religious Creativity and Gender in Colonial Contexts.
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