Publications and Presentations

List of Publications, Presentations, and Professional Memberships

  • This list is shortened and does not include publications in education or library science.
  • Presentation at Louisa May Alcott’s Orchard House, July 2023. “Angels of Encouragement and Demons of Doubt.”
  • Panel presentation at the Henry David Thoreau Annual Gathering, July 2023. “Women in Search of the Sublime: Louisa May Alcott and May Alcott Nieriker”
  • Current project with Monika Elbert: Expanding the Canon: Essays on the Minor Books of Louisa May Alcott.
  • Presentation for “Bearing Untold Stories” Symposium in the Department of English Literature and Creative Writing at Lancaster University at Lancaster, England. May 31, 2022.
  • Presentation for Henry David Thoreau Annual Gathering July 2021 (all virtual). Panel: Women Questions. Paper: “Evolving Concepts of Talent and Genius in the works of Louisa May Alcott.
  • The Forgotten Alcott: Essays on the Artistic Legacy and Literary Life of May Alcott Nieriker. Co-Editor with Azelina Flint. Routledge Press: 2022. The book includes two essays by Lauren Hehmeyer, a chronology, and a conclusion.
  • Hehmeyer, Lauren. “‘Let the World Know You Are Alive’: May Alcott Nieriker and Louisa May Alcott Confront Nineteenth-Century Ideas about Women’s Genius.” American Studies Journal 66 (2019). Web. 11 Apr. 2019. DOI 10.18422/66-03.   http://www.asjournal.org/66-2019/let-the-world-know-you-are-alive-may-alcott-nieriker-and-louisa-may-alcott-confront-nineteenth-century-ideas-about-womens-genius/
  • Interview for C19, Season 2, Episode 3, a podcast hosted by the University of Pennsylvania. https://soundcloud.com/c19podcast/the-real-amy-march-recovering-may-alcott-nierikers-life-and-works?fbclid=IwAR1Ey4xaEL11iT9DFEBQohHkqkL3hXoBg1r0jViD25tlPYUGXqSxhaEca7Y
  • Distinguished Lecturer, Texarkana College, Nov 1, 2018. “Ambition and the Alcotts.”
  • “Let the World Know You Are Alive: The Concept of Genius and May Alcott Nieriker” at the conference Recovering May Alcott Nieriker, Universite de Paris–Diderot, June 28, 2018.
  • Published poem “Constant Creation” in the Thoreau Society Bulletin, Spring 2018, #301,  pg. 19.
  • Series: “What Every Christian Should Know: Hinduism, Buddhism, and Islam” to St. James Church, Texarkana, Tx, Spring 2018
  • Presentation: “Walking With Mr. Thoreau–history version.” Franklin County Historical Society, Mt. Vernon, Texas. January 1, 2018.
  • Presentation: “Let The World Know You Are Alive” SAGE group, Texarkana, October 3, 2017.
  • Presentation: “Let The World Know You Are Alive” Delta Kappa Gamma, Upsilon Chapter, Hughes Springs, Texas. October 2, 2017.
  • Presentation: “Walking With Mr. Thoreau” to Native Plant Society of Dallas, Sept. 18, 2017
  • “TC Professors present paper at conference in Massachusetts” Texarkana Gazette, Aug. 8, 2017.
  • Presentation: “Drug and Alcohol Abuse Counselors Meet Mr. Thoreau” at the Thoreau Bicentennial Conference in Concord, Massachusetts, July 14,2017
  • Presentation: “Travel to Paris.” SAGE group of Texarkana College. June 5, 2017.
  • “Lecture focuses on Thoreau and his love for the environment” Texarkana Gazette, May 10, 2017.
  • Presentation: “Walking With Mr. Thoreau” to the Friends for a Sustainable Environment, May 9, 2017
  • Presentation: “Walking With Mr. Thoreau” to the Texarkana Audubon Club, April 27,
  • Book Review. “Thoreau: A Sublime Life.” Thoreau Society Bulletin, Spring 2017 #297.
  • Article: “Walking With Mr. Thoreau” Four States Living Magazine, January 2017, 24 (1), 56.
  • Sketch: “Thoreau’s Stone” in Thoreau Society Bulletin, Spring 2016 #293. 13.
  • Member of the Thoreau Society, the Louisa May Alcott Society, and the Texas Community College Teachers’ Association.