Professor Etta Madden and Associate Professor Shannon Wooden will each be on sabbatical next year to complete research and books on their respective areas of interest.

Madden explores women’s issues with book, conference paper

Madden will be researching and writing her fourth book, “Engaging Italy: American Women’s Utopian Activism after Unification,” for her sabbatical project next year. In September, she will also present her scholarly paper, “Left Behind: Journalist Anne Hampton Brewster’s Circle of Men and Bagni di Lucca, 1873.” The paper will be delivered at the Italian conference “Questions of Gender: The Feminine in Victorian Culture.”

Wooden to complete book, certificate in narrative practice

Wooden will be completing her book “Revising Illness Stories: Critical Listening and Constructing Collaboration” during her sabbatical in the fall. Wooden, a top national scholar in the emerging field of narrative medicine, will also be participating in a low-residency program in narrative medicine at Columbia University while working for a certificate in narrative practice.