Workshop: Rethinking Winnifred Eaton/Onoto Watanna

On October 1–2, 2026, the European Study Group of Nineteenth-Century American Literature will meet in Mannheim for a workshop on “From ‘Japanese Romance’ to ‘Canadian Realism’: Rethinking Winnifred Eaton/Onoto Watanna.” The workshop brings together scholars to discuss Eaton’s early Japonist writing as well as her later turn toward Canadian settings and realist modes. The program includes talks by Jean Lee Cole (Loyola University Maryland) and Dominika Ferens (University of Wrocław) as well as collaborative discussions of selected works by Eaton. Organized by Dr. Antonia Purk.