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Dr. Cynthia Wachtell Sings the Virtues of Walt Whitman

By On November 5, 2019 · Leave a Comment

Dr. Cynthia Wachtell, research associate professor of American studies and director of the S. Daniel Abraham Honors Program at Stern College for Women, penned a contribution to the North American Review’s project, “Every Atom: Reflections on Walt Whitman at 200,” in which the editor of the project, […]

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Dr. Cynthia Wachtell Honors Ellen N. La Motte

By On November 5, 2019 · Leave a Comment

On Oct. 22, 2019, Dr. Cynthia Wachtell, research associate professor of American studies and director of the S. Daniel Abraham Honors Program at Stern College for Women, gave a livestreamed presentation at the National World War I Museum and Memorial in Kansas City, […]

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Wachtell Publishes on Ellen Newbold La Motte

By On June 17, 2019 · Leave a Comment

Dr. Cynthia Wachtell, research associate professor of American studies and director of the S. Daniel Abraham Honors Program at Stern College for Women, has published an essay on Ellen Newbold La Motte in Harvard Magazine.

Subtitled “Brief life of a bold activist: 1873-1961,” Dr. Wachtell outlines […]

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Wachtell Presents Paper About the Great War

By On December 17, 2018 · Leave a Comment

Dr. Cynthia Wachtell, research associate professor of American studies and director of the S. Daniel Abraham Honors Program at Stern College for Women, presented a paper at a conference, “Artistic Expressions and the Great War: A Hundred Years On,” organized by the Hofstra Cultural Center and Department of History and held […]

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Wachtell Delivers Lecture, Publishes Essays on Antiwar Literature

By On March 5, 2018 · Leave a Comment

Dr. Cynthia Wachtell, research associate professor of American studies and director of the S. Daniel Abraham Honors Program at Stern College for Women, delivered a lecture titled “The Lost Author of a Lost Classic: Ellen N. La Motte and The Backwash of War” in November 2017 at “Women and World War […]

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Wachtell Publishes Essays

By On September 27, 2016 · Leave a Comment

Dr. Cynthia Wachtell, director of the S. Daniel Abraham Honors Program and research associate professor of American studies at Stern College for Women, has published a number of essays. She contributed four essays to Opposition to War: An Encyclopedia of United States Peace and Antiwar Movements, forthcoming from […]

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Wachtell Publishes Essay, Article

By On March 11, 2015 · Leave a Comment

Dr. Cynthia Wachtell, research associate professor of American studies and director of the S. Daniel Abraham Honors Program at Yeshiva University’s Stern College for Women, recently published an essay in American Literary History. Titled “The Civil War: Post 9/11,” the essay discusses how recent American wars, such as military engagement in Afghanistan, have shaped scholarship […]

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Wachtell Publishes Article in Huffington Post

By On May 1, 2014 · Leave a Comment

Dr. Cynthia Wachtell, research associate professor of American studies and director of the S. Daniel Abraham Honors Program at Yeshiva University’s Stern College for Women, has published an article in The Huffington Post. Titled “No Place for Poetry on My Son’s Common Core ELA Test,” the piece discusses the lack of poetry in modern […]

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Wachtell Publishes Essay on Melville in New York Times

By On December 24, 2012 · Leave a Comment

Dr. Cynthia Wachtell, director of Stern College for Women’s S. Daniel Abraham Honors Program, recently published an essay about Herman Melville, the famed Moby Dick author, in The New York Times. Her essay focuses on two drafts of Melville’s poem “Inscription for the Slain at Frederiksburgh,” a work he composed for soldiers […]

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