1. Willa Cather, The Professor's House (1925) Lecture I
Ramón Saldívar
Stanford University

2. Cather, Professor's House
Willa Cather, aged 9
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3. Willa Cather and cast of Beauty and the Beast
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4. Cather, Professor's House
As William Cather
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5. Cather, Professor's House
As William Cather, Jr.
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6. As William in Civil War costume, early teens
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7. Willa Cather and Louis Pound, Roommates, Freshman Yr, U of Nebraska
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8. Cather, Professor's House
Isabelle McClung
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9. Willa Cather, Managing Editor, McClure’s Magazine c. 1912
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10. Willa Cather, photographed by Carl Van Vechten
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11. A “hermapherdite (sic) . . . who wore men’s shoes . . . .
Cross-dressing, Disguise and the “New Woman”
Androgyny and the Gender of Identity
Romance and Latin Lovers
The Sexuality of the American Southwest
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“Dans le desert il y a tout et il n’ya rien -- Dieu, sans les hommes.” --Balzac, “A Passion in the Desert”
Departs the Southwest, 1912
Visits Wyoming, Arizona, New Mexico, 1914
Returns to Mesa Verde, Taos, Santa Fe, 1915
Meets Mabel Dodge Luhan and D.H. Lawrence in Taos, 1925
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13. Cather, Professor's House
The Professor’s House, 1925
Edith Lewis, “The Professor’s House is the most personal of Willa Cather’s novels.”
Professor Godfrey St. Peter’s story
His student, Tom Outland’s story
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14. The Homosocial Romance
Narrative structure:
(Professor’s story [Tom’s story] Professor’s story)
Professor’s love for Tom [Tom’s love for Rodney]
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15. Cather, Professor's House
The Place of Landscape
The Romance of the Southwest
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