📸 from today’s Margaret Fuller Society panel at the 2026 Thoreau Society Annual Gathering, chaired by our beloved president Jana Argersinger! The panel was titled “Trouble and Recovery: Health in Margaret Fuller’s Life and Society”

Celebrate Margaret Fuller’s 216th birthday by donating to the Margaret Fuller Society! ▶️ margaretfullersociety.org/conferences/...

💥 The submission deadline for this year’s Margaret Fuller Prize by the New England Quarterly is June 15th!

Happy 216th birthday to Margaret Fuller! Today’s celebration is a special one—the unveiling of a bronze statue of Fuller by distinguished American sculptor Penelope Jencks, at the Concord Free Public Library ⭐️

- "Margaret Fuller's Physical Education" by Jess Libow: muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic... Enjoy and tell us which is your favorite! 😄 5/5

- "Androgyny and Desire: M.Fuller, J.W.Howe, and Fractured Trans Archives" by @eagandean.bsky.social : muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic... - "M. Fuller's First Depiction of Indians and the Limits on Social Protest: An Exercise in Women's Studies Pedagogy" by A.Kolodny: muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic... 3/4

- "Margaret Fuller's First Conversation Series: A Discovery in the Archives" by A. Ritchie: muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic... - "'The animating influences of Discord': Margaret Fuller in 1844" by S.Belasco: muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic... 2/4

Whose birthday is it today?... Margaret Fuller! 🎂🎈 Here's a selection of readings on one of the great transcendentalists... (there are so many articles on Fuller in our archives that I could not include them all, so do not hesitate to drop your other favorite pieces in the comments!) 1/4

Happy Margaret Fuller Day & Margaret Wise Brown Day! Ain’t that the best of American literature? memorydaycalendar.blogspot.com/p/may-nomine...

Hoy hace 216 años nació: Sarah Margaret Fuller. Periodista estadounidense y activista por los derechos de la mujer, traductora, ensayista, filósofa, escritora, crítica literaria, abolicionista, sufragista y precursora del feminismo. Murió a los 40 años.

Two amazing MFS initiatives ▶️ More info on our website: margaretfullersociety.org

Happening today!

The Magnolia of Lake Pontchartrain is LOA’s story of the week!! storyoftheweek.loa.org?m=1

💥 Exciting prospects: two Fuller Society-sponsored panels at ALA next week + two Margaret-related papers during a SSAWW roundtable next Thursday!

BIG NEWS 📣 “A life-size bronze likeness of 19th century writer, book reviewer, and women’s rights advocate Margaret Fuller has been donated to Massachusetts’ Concord Free Public Library Corporation and will be unveiled next month.”

➡️ Tune in this Friday for a hybrid seminar devoted to Margaret Fuller, featuring papers by Sonia Di Loreto (Università di Torino) and Leslie Eckel (Suffolk University). The event, part of the A19 seminar series, will take place at Sorbonne Université in Paris & on Zoom (a19.hypotheses.org/3658)

If you're attending #C19, please join us for Margaret Fuller Society's panel on Thursday, 12 March at 1:40-3:00 pm. It’s entitled “‘To Give Them All A Welcome To Our Shore': Immigrant Voices and Advocates in Nineteenth-Century Periodicals." More details below ⬇️

A new CFP is out! The MFS invites submissions for a panel on “Feminist and Anti-Racist Citation” at #MLA2027 in Los Angeles.

Happening now at #MLA26 ➡️ “Margaret Fuller and Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers Observing Nature, Engaging Science,” a panel sponsored by the Margaret Fuller Society

#new The Margaret Fuller Society is inviting submissions for a panel titled “Teaching in Difficult Times” at the 2026 American Literature Association annual conference, to be held in Chicago on May 20-23 ▶️ Submissions are due by January 24

Some unexpected treats to top off the absolute treat that teaching this class on women's writings in the 19th-century United States was! Feeling immensely lucky to have had such engaged students and thought-provoking discussions in this course! 🌟

In case you haven't heard, the MFS's own 1st VP Mollie Barnes has just been elected VP of Organizational Matters for SSAWW, the Society for the Study of American Women Writers. Heart-felt congratulations to both Mollie and SSAWW. That vibrant group is about to find out how lucky they are!

💥CFP: The Margaret Fuller Society is calling for papers for a panel on “Trouble and Recovery: Health in Margaret Fuller’s Life and Society” at the 2026 #ThoreauGathering in Concord, MA (8-12 July). Abstracts due by 31 December 2025.

The Margaret Fuller Society is calling for papers for a panel on “Trouble and Recovery: Health in Margaret Fuller’s Life and Society” at the 2026 #ThoreauGathering in Concord, MA (8-12 July). Abstracts due by 31 December 2025.

Issue 2.1 is out! Essays by @alicedegalzain.bsky.social & Peter Balaam; don’t miss our forum on higher ed now featuring Stephanie Foote, @jennifergreiman.bsky.social, @cnewf.bsky.social, & @samcohen.bsky.social Read/circulate/submit: thedialjournal.org

The Margaret Fuller Society Online Bibliography has just been updated and is now LIVE! 👏 Check it out! margaretfullersociety.org/wp-content/u...

The 2025 SSAWW Conference (6-9 November, Philadelphia) is just around the corner! Please join us on Friday 7 November for two roundtables about the roles of women author societies, co-organized by the Emily Dickinson Int. Society, the Margaret Fuller Society and the Elizabeth Madox Roberts Society

💥An updated version of the program for the “Critical Health” conference I am co-organizing with @jpitettiheil.bsky.social is now online! Please visit our website (desktop version is recommended) at criticalhealthconference.wordpress.com

Commemorating the 175 anniversary of Margaret Fuller's tragic death at sea--just a few days ago, on July 19: www.loa.org/news-and-vie... #ScholarlyEditing #feminism #MargaretFuller #Women'sRights #FeministEditing

Calling for papers for #C192026 in Cincinnati! Send us your proposal by August 10th, 2025 🗓️ @c19americanists.bsky.social

In Lux, Jessie Kindig discusses the transcendent life of Margaret Fuller: “Often overshadowed by her more famous male contemporaries is the smartest of them all, the lone woman in their inner circle. . . . Hers was a feminism born from being lived, dashed off, felt, puzzled over with other minds.”

The Margaret Fuller Society is pleased to sponsor a panel on “Margaret Fuller, Women of the Nineteenth Century, & Revolution” at this year’s Thoreau Society Annual Gathering, in Concord. Join us tomorrow, July 11th, at 2.45 pm in person or online (thoreausociety.org/news/annual-...)

The Poe/Hawthorne conference is coming up soon and the program includes papers on Margaret Fuller: Yoshiko Ito’s “The Fusion of Physicality and Spritituality in Margaret Fuller’s Journalistic Writings” and Alice de Galzain’s “The Gendered Politics of Hearsay: Poe, Hawthorne, and Fuller”.

You can read more about the #CriticalHealth conference on the @fullersociety.bsky.social website: margaretfullersociety.org/conferences/...

Beyond excited (and honored!!) to announce that Prof. Emerita Phyllis Cole (PennState Brandywine) will be delivering the keynote address at the conference on “Critical Health” (taking place at @sorbonne-universite.fr on October 17-18, 2025) that I am co-organizing with @jpitettiheil.bsky.social

Happy Birthday, Margaret #Fuller! A good year for her--wonderful treatment of her importance in both these new publications. More this year in our OUP volume on American women #philosophers. #philsky #womeninphilosophy #americanphilosophy #transcendentalism

Happy 215th Birthday to Margaret Fuller and her literary descendants! We visited today and left some precious objects: a shell and a wooden rose!

Happy 215th birthday Margaret Fuller! Some Fullerenes took an excursion to Mt Auburn to pay homage (thank you Tammy Rose @concordwriters.bsky.social for organizing this and Megan Marshall for being our guide)

Let’s celebrate Margaret Fuller’s 215th birthday (May 23) together! Please click on the link below ⬇️ for more information about our annual Fundraiser. Donations will be used to fulfill the mission of the Society and 25% of the fundraiser will also be donated to the Margaret Fuller Neighborhood House

ALA is around the corner, taking place in Boston in just a few weeks👏 with a special overlap, since May 23rd will mark Fuller’s 215th birthday anniversary! The MFS is hosting two sessions on Thursday 22 May (link to the conference website below ⬇️)—we hope to see as many of you there as possible!

The New England Quarterly will be accepting submissions for the Margaret Fuller Prize until June 15, 2025!

Don't miss this important online event on Wednesday, April 30, hosted by Stanford's Clayman Institute for Gender Research--and featuring the Fuller Society's own Eagan Dean! Noon Pacific Time. gender.stanford.edu/events/claym...

“Do we really want to draw back the curtain on history and find people talking and acting the way we do?” In @nytimes.com, Margaret Fuller’s Pulitzer-winning biographer Megan Marshall discusses the possibilities and pitfalls of novels based on the lives of historical figures.

We love seeing this gorgeous Fuller: Collected Writings @libraryofamerica.bsky.social book in the wild!

We are very much looking forward to this conference in October! "Critical Health: Feminist Perspectives on Health and Well-Being in the Nineteenth-Century United States" organized by @alicedegalzain.bsky.social & @jpitettiheil.bsky.social. Paris, here we come! baas.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

Calling for papers for MLA 2026! “Margaret Fuller and 19C American Women Writers Observing Nature, Engaging Science” Abstracts due March 20: margaretfullersociety.org/call-for-pap... @modernlanguage.bsky.social @c19americanists.bsky.social @emersonsociety.bsky.social @amantiquarian.bsky.social