Publication Date
2025
Presentation Length
15 minutes
College
College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences
Department
English, Department of
Student Level
Graduate
SPARK Category
Scholarship
Faculty Advisor
Dr. Alexis Walston
WELL Core Type
Intellectual Wellness
SPARK Session
11:45-12:45 Group Presentation
Presentation Type
Talk/Oral
Summary
During our visit to the Belmont University Archives, I happened upon a scrapbook kept by a woman, Elizabeth Igler, who attended Ward-Belmont during the 1927-1928 school year. Upon further research in the Glendale Historic Preservation Archive, where Igler served as the village’s first female solicitor, I found that any record of Igler’s attendance at Belmont was missing. I am curious about the impact of Igler’s time at Belmont on her legal career, particularly because this time in her life is digitally unsearchable outside of the Belmont digital repository. Thus, for my research project, I want to explore the following questions: What kind of careers did Belmont’s curriculum and culture prepare young women to pursue during this time period? In what ways did Igler align herself to these expectations? In what ways did she subvert them?
Recommended Citation
Dickerson, Genevieve, "Elizabeth Igler: The Scrapbook as Feminist Inventiveness" (2025). SPARK Symposium Presentations. 141.
https://repository.belmont.edu/spark_presentations/141
