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April 19, 2007
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Whitehead presents paper at Interdisciplinary Conference in Women’s Studies
  
COLUMBUS, Miss. – Dr. Kim Whitehead, instructor of English and religious studies in the Department of Languages, Literature, and Philosophy at Mississippi University for Women, recently presented the paper "'The Flowering of Choice':  Marge Piercy's Poetics of the Sacred Body" at the biennial Interdisciplinary Conference in Women's Studies at Middle Tennessee State University. 
   
This year's conference theme was "Performing Gender." Her paper traced the development of an embodied spirituality in Piercy's poetry, influenced by her association with the women's and Jewish Renewal movements of the late 20th century.
    
Whitehead also has two fiction publications this year, a short story “Indian Pink” that appeared in the fall 2006 issue of storySouth and a short story “The Split” forthcoming in the spring/summer 2007 issue of Terrain.org: A Journal of the Built & Natural Environments.