{"id":209725,"date":"2026-05-26T14:53:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T18:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/?p=209725"},"modified":"2026-05-26T14:53:31","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T18:53:31","slug":"a-feminist-god-madelynn-mcdevitt-selected-for-mcneil-undergraduate-research-workshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/2026\/05\/26\/a-feminist-god-madelynn-mcdevitt-selected-for-mcneil-undergraduate-research-workshop\/","title":{"rendered":"A Feminist God: Madelynn McDevitt Selected for McNeil Undergraduate Research Workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>English undergraduate student Madelynn McDevitt recently presented her research on the redefinition of women&#8217;s roles in Shaker music at the McNeil Center for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mceas.org\/consortium\/undergraduate-research-workshop\">Early American Studies (MCEAS) Consortium Undergraduate Research Workshop<\/a>, hosted at the University of Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p>Selected from a competitive pool of applicants across MCEAS Consortium institutions, McDevitt&#8217;s project examines a handwritten Shaker songbook composed by Marcia E. Hastings, a spiritual leader and Eldress of the Canterbury, New Hampshire community, between 1839 and 1842, now housed at the Shaker Museum in Chatham, New York. Placing Hastings&#8217;s manuscript alongside other hymnal traditions, McDevitt explores competing ideas of authorship and authenticity in Shaker sacred song, and what they reveal about the community&#8217;s radical vision of a dual-gendered God.<\/p>\n<p>Montclair students interested in future MCEAS opportunities are encouraged to contact Steffi Dippold at <a href=\"mailto:dippolds@montclair.edu\">dippolds@montclair.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>English undergraduate student Madelynn McDevitt recently presented her research on the redefinition of women&#8217;s roles in Shaker music at the McNeil Center for Early American Studies (MCEAS) Consortium Undergraduate Research Workshop, hosted at the University of Pennsylvania. Selected from a competitive pool of applicants across MCEAS Consortium institutions, McDevitt&#8217;s project examines a handwritten Shaker songbook [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":209726,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-students","category-7_homepage-news-and-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209725"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209727,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209725\/revisions\/209727"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}