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My research investigates literacy and education in cultural and historical context. 
Hilda Satt Polacheck and Dena Epstein,
May Day Parade, ca. 1930
Below, you will find several articles in print, forthcoming and under review:
  • “Hilda Satt Polacheck and the Urban Folklore of Chicago’s Hull-House Neighborhood.” Midwestern Folklore.28.2: 2002: 18-27. 
  • “‘To Learn from Life Itself’: Experience and Education at Hull-House.” In Jane Addams and the Call to Education.  Ed. David Schaafsma.  New York: Teachers College Press.  Forthcoming, October 2011.
  • Review of  Composition and Copyright: Perspectives on Teaching, Text-Making, and Fair Use.   Edited and with an Introduction by Stephen Westbrook. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2009. Forthcoming Fall 2010, Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association.
  • “Hilda Satt Polacheck (1882-1967): Worker, Writer, ‘Hull-House Girl,’” submitted to Women’s History Review.

  • "Bottom Dogs and Might-Have-Beens: The Industrial Folklore of the Federal Writers' Project," forthcoming Fall 2010, The Folklore Historian.

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  May 3, 2011 10:07 AM Bridget O'Rourke
 Hilda Satt Polacheck
After_JA_Prospectus_01_31_08.pdf
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Prospectus for _After Jane Addams: Life at Hull-House from New Deal to Great Society, 1930-1963_, accepted for publication by University of Illinois Press.   113k v. 3 Nov 1, 2010 2:11 PM Bridget O'Rourke
ORourke_NewberrySeminar_Polacheck.pdf
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Draft presented to the Newberry Seminar on Women and Gender, 12 Nov 2010  222k v. 4 Nov 4, 2010 3:05 PM Bridget O'Rourke
ORourkePolacheckJWH.pdf
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"Hilda Satt Polacheck (1882-1967): Worker, Writer, 'Hull-House Girl'" (under review)  159k v. 3 Nov 1, 2010 1:36 PM Bridget O'Rourke
 Jane Addams and the Call to Education (Ed. Schaafsma)
ORourkeExperienceandEducation.pdf
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"'To Learn from Life Itself': Experience and Education at Hull-House." In _Jane Addams and the Call to Education._ Ed. David Schaafsma. New York: Teachers College Press. Forthcoming, October 2011.   67k v. 3 Nov 1, 2010 1:39 PM Bridget O'Rourke
 MMLA Journal
BookReviewMMLAJournal.pdf
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Review of Composition and Copyright: Perspectives on Teaching, Text-Making, and Fair Use. Ed. Stephen Westbrook. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2009. Forthcoming MMLA Journal.  20k v. 2 Nov 1, 2010 1:39 PM Bridget O'Rourke
 The Folklore Historian
WPAIndustrialFolklore.pdf
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"Highpockets and Bottom Dogs: Chicago Industrial Lore of the Federal Writers Project," forthcoming Fall 2010, The Folklore Historian   99k v. 3 Nov 1, 2010 1:39 PM Bridget O'Rourke
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