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Preferred Citation

[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Annette Oxindine Papers, A&M 4673, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Gift of Oxindine, Annette, 2021 September 07

Biographical / Historical

Raised in Maryland, Annette Oxindine moved to Morgantown, West Virginia in 1982 August to attend West Virginia University (WVU) as a graduate student and teaching assistant in the Department of English. She had earned her B.A. in English from Frostburg State University in Frostburg, Maryland.

Oxindine became active with the Artemis Sisters Collective in 1983 January after a meeting with women at the Underground Railroad, a bar and music venue in Morgantown. The Artemis Sisters Collective was a local feminist collective formed in 1982 September for the purpose of promoting women's empowerment through creative, political, and social engagement. Oxindine graduated from WVU with her M.A. in English in 1984. After working as a lecturer in the WVU Department of English for another year, she returned to Maryland in the summer of 1985.

She attended the University of Maryland (College Park) and earned her Ph.D. in English sometime before 1993. In 1993, she took up a faculty position as a professor of English in Wright State University's Department of English in Dayton, Ohio. As of 2025 April, Oxindine continues to work in Wright State University's Department of English.

[Current biographical information gathered from: Annette Oxindine, "Annette Oxindine," People Wright, Wright State University, accessed 2025 April 11, https://people.wright.edu/annette.oxindine.]

Scope and Contents

This collection contains Annette Oxindine's written responses to an interview about her time with the Artemis Sisters Collective between 1983 and 1985.

The collection also includes photographs from a party held at member Mary Kenney's house in 1983 June and from inside Sisterspace, which was a meeting space and library founded by the Artemis Sisters Collective, at 235 High Street in Morgantown, West Virginia.

Individuals photographed and discussed in the transcript beside Annette Oxindine include Cindy Williams, Michele Flynn, Mary Kenney, Ilene Klein, Evelyn Tomaszewski, Teresa Crimone, Carla Daruda and Carrie Koeturius.

Related Material

A&M 4561, Artemis Sisters Collective Records at https://archives.lib.wvu.edu/repositories/2/resources/6950.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Daruda, Carla
• Feminism
• Flynn, Michele
• Kenney, Mary
• Klein, Ilene
• Koeturius, Carrie
• Oxindine, Annette
• Oxindine, Annette
• Tomaszewski, Evelyn
• West Virginia Feminist Activist Collection
• Williams, Cindy
• Women in community organization
• Women political activists