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The Willa Cather Teacher Institute

… Image Image Image Image The Willa Cather Teacher Institute July 13–17, 2026 Are you an … who has always wanted to spend several days immersed in the works of Willa Cather? Are you curious about how the history … of grade levels; Tours, lectures, research, and other NWCC teaching resources to develop lesson plans and activities …
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69th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference

… Image Image Willa Cather reads to her brother Jack and sister Elsie. Cather … of the novel Woman of Light and the widely acclaimed short story collection Sabrina and Corina , a finalist for the …
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Willa Cather Biography

… Nebraska, such as in her novels of prairie pioneering,  O Pioneers!  and  My Á ntonia , but there are a succession of … she offered this description, Cather had just published  O Pioneers! , her first and far more literary novel focused on … year in Nebraska. As she made clear repeatedly after  O Pioneers!  was published, she had been afforded a rare …
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Willa Cather Timeline

… 1870  — Silas Garber, former captain in the United States Army, and four other men file homestead claims near a site … not proclaimed as being bound for lofty things by the local newspaper. Only sixteen years old, Cather enrolls at the … by Knopf. 1936  — Knopf publishes Cather’s only book of essays,  Not Under Forty . In the book’s introduction, …
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Willa Cather and Material Culture: A Sesquicentennial Reflection

… Image Willa's Cradle, by Betty Kort Image Out in the Kitchen, by Betty Kort Art Gallery Wednesday, Jul 19 - Saturday, Nov 4, 2023 | All day In 2007, photographer and Willa Cather Foundation executive director Betty Kort created …
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18th International Willa Cather Seminar

… , NY 10011 United States "Bright and Beautiful and Alive": Willa Cather's New York Intersections We hope you will make … the Eugene Lang College of New School in Greenwich Village, teaching classes in memoir, cultural criticism, and race and … Seminar invites proposals for papers on diverse themes, works, and people evoked by Cather’s early twentieth century …
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68th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference

… , which celebrates its publication centenary in 2023, and other texts that Cather published in 1923, such as her revised book of poetry,  April Twilights and Other Poems .  The conference will begin the …
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63rd annual Willa Cather Spring Conference

… recently Why I’m an Only Child and Other Slightly Naughty Plains Folktales . Antonia Welsch is the daughter of … 5:00 to 6:00 p.m.: Artists Reception for Complete & Great Exhibit My Ántonia , Willa Cather’s celebrated novel, …  is the author of the story collection Cowboys and East Indians , which won the 2014 PEN Open Book Award and a High …
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Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index

… Officers and Board of Governors p. 1  Aims p. 1  Progress Report and Building Fund News p. 1  Publications p. 2  … Programs p. 2  World Wide Interest in Cather p. 3  Annual Conference p. 4  Acknowledgements p. 4  … 51.3 Winter 2008 Issue Editor:  Ann Romines Managing Editor:  Betty Kort …
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Annotations from the Archives: Teaching with Primary Sources

… their long-term preservation, the archives are open to anyone with research interest—and that includes students who … or more general archival research for History or English coursework. For many students, these visits comprise their … writes to her friend Carrie Miner Sherwood about her novel One of Ours , which she refers to as "Claude" for the main …
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