Marilee Lindemann Delivers the Woodress Lecture
October 02, 2012
English | Center for Literary and Comparative Studies
On September 20, Marilee Lindemann delivered the second annual Woodress Lecture at the University of Nebraska Lincoln's Center for Great Plains Studies. The lecture is named for Cather biographer James Woodress. Lindemann's lecture, "Willa Cather and the Lavender Scare," examined early biographies and memoirs of Cather in the context of Cold War persecutions of gays and lesbians.