Lisa M. Botshon
| Title | Professor of English |
|---|---|
| Telephone | (207) 621-3473 |
| botshon@maine.edu | |
| Address | Jewett Hall, Room 119 |
| Bio |
Lisa Botshon is a Professor of English who teaches a wide variety of courses, including American literature, graphic storytelling, and women’s and gender studies. Her research interests include women writers; issues of gender, race and ethnicity; American popular culture; and early 20th-century back-to-the-land narratives. She has published articles in a range of collections and scholarly journals, including Feminist Teacher, Journal of Narrative Theory, and Modern Fiction Studies. A collection, Middlebrow Moderns: Popular American Women Writers of the 1920s, co-edited with Meredith Goldsmith, was published by Northeastern UP. Her current book project focuses on Maine women rusticators of the 1940s. During the 2009-2010 academic year, Dr. Botshon was the recipient of a Fulbright fellowship to the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia; she was awarded a second Fulbright to teach at the University of Lisbon, Portugal, in spring 2018. Conference Presentations 鈥溾�榃ater Water Everywhere鈥�: Plumbing and Harriet Beecher Stowe鈥檚 Civilization of the Body,鈥� Stowe in Context and Conversation, Stowe House, Hartford, CT, April 2026. 鈥溾�楲et us have our bath rooms鈥�: Harriet Beecher Stowe鈥檚 Prescient Plumbing,鈥� Society for the Study of American Women Writers, Philadelphia, Nov. 2025. 鈥溾�楺ueer Little Human Toy鈥�: Katharine Butler Hathaway and the House that Made Her Life Rise,鈥� Wellesley/Deerfield Symposium. Queer New England, Historic Deerfield, March 2024. 鈥淢id-Century Maine Rustication Narratives and the Making of the White Middle Class,鈥� Wellesley/Deerfield Symposium. Homemaking: Race, Place, and Ethnicity in the New England Household, Wellesley College, March 4, 2023. Other Scholarly Work Organizer. 鈥淢aine鈥檚 Midcentury Moment,鈥� an 11-event commemoration in honor of the State of Maine鈥檚 Bicentennial funded by an NEH Public Humanities Grant, January 2020-September 2021. Conference co-organizer. “One sun rose on us today”: Stories from Maine’s Long 20th Century,鈥� UMA and the University of Southern Maine, June 2021. National Endowment for the Humanities, Public Humanities Grant: Maine鈥檚 Midcentury Moment, $100,000, 2019-2021. |
| Selected Publications | Scholarly Publications "This is Not My Father's Literature Class: A Playbook for Change,"聽Wording Otherness: Living and Learning in Dissimilitude Without Dissonance, eds. Michelle Gadpaille and Mojca Krevel, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2024. "Louise Dickinson Rich's Middlebrow House in the Big Woods,"聽Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers聽38. 1-2, 2021: 90-111. |
| Education | B.A., Brandeis University. |