Dec 18, 2018 By: yunews
Dr. Cynthia Wachtell, research associate professor of American studies and director of the S. Daniel Abraham Honors Program at , presented a paper at a conference, Artistic Expressions and the Great War: A Hundred Years On, organized by the Hofstra Cultural Center and Department of History and held at Hofstra University from Nov. 7-9, 2018.
The paper, Artistic Expression and Suppression: Ellen N. Motte and the Backwash of War, was part of a panel discussion on Writing and Performing War, moderated by Dr. Cindy Rosenthal of the Department of Drama and Dance at Hofstra University.
Ellen Newbold La Motte, born in 1873, was a trained nurse, public health advocate and administrator, suffragette, journalist, anarchist, expatriate in Gertrude Steins Paris circle, lesbian and war nurse. The Backwash of War: The Human Wreckage of the Battlefield as Witnessed by an American Hospital Nurse was a short story collection about her experiences in World War I. Dr. Wachtell will be publishing a book in February 2019 on La Motte.
