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Interview about Sarah Piatt with Dr. Bernadette Whelan by Dr. Elizabeth Renker

Whelan, Bernadette ( 2022-06 )

Interview with Dr. Bernadette Whelan, Professor Emeritus in the Department of History at the University of Limerick. Her areas of expertise include women's history, American-Irish diplomatic relations, and the history of ...

Interview about Sarah Piatt with Dr. Pamela Kincheloe by Dr. Elizabeth Renker

Kincheloe, Pamela ( 2022-02 )

Interview with Dr. Pamela Kincheloe, a first-wave scholar of Sarah Piatt. She discusses working as a research assistant to Piatt scholar Paula Bennett as a graduate student at Southern Illinois University; her dissertation ...

Interview about Sarah Piatt with Margaret Piatt by Dr. Elizabeth Renker

Piatt, Margaret ( 2021-03 )

Interview with Margaret Piatt about her connections to the Piatt family and her work managing Piatt Castle Mac-A-Cheek. Margaret also discusses the history of the Mac-A-Cheek and Mac-O-Chee Castles and the surrounding land, ...

Interview about Sarah Piatt with Dr. Karen L. Kilcup by Dr. Elizabeth Renker

Kilcup, Karen L. ( 2021-03 )

Interview with Dr. Karen L. Kilcup about her recovery work on nineteenth-century women writers and her efforts as a first-wave scholar of Sarah Piatt. Dr. Kilcup describes the research for her book, Nineteenth-Century ...

Interview about Sarah Piatt with Dr. Geoffrey Smith by Dr. Elizabeth Renker

Smith, Geoff ( 2021-01 )

Interview with Dr. Geoffrey D. Smith, former Head of the Rare Books and Manuscripts Library. He discusses his work as a curator, developing the unit’s Charvat Collection of American Literature and Sarah Piatt holdings, ...

Interview about Sarah Piatt with Dr. Elizabeth Renker by Jolie Braun

Renker, Elizabeth ( 2020-07-27 )

Interview with Dr. Elizabeth Renker about her work on nineteenth-century poet Sarah Piatt. During her lifetime, Piatt’s poetry was published in periodicals and newspapers and widely read but fell into obscurity after her ...

Biblical Allusions in the Poems of Sarah Piatt

Michaels, Larry R. ( 2019 )

Recovering Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt

Bennett, Paula; Kilcup, Karen L. ( 2018 )

Interview about Sarah Piatt with Dr. Larry R. Michaels by Dr. Elizabeth Renker

Michaels, Larry R. ( 2017-10-10 )

Interview with Dr. Larry R. Michaels, the scholar who produced the first modern edition of Sarah Piatt’s poetry (titled That New World: Selected Poems of Sarah Piatt 1861-1911, published in 1999) about how he came to find ...

Interview about Sarah Piatt with Dr. Paula Bernat Bennett by Dr. Elizabeth Renker

Bennett, Paula ( 2017-09-10 )

Interview with Dr. Paula Bernat Bennett about how she discovered Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt, a poet who had essentially been lost to literary history. Professor Bennett accidentally came upon Piatt in her research on women ...