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THE FOURTH BIENNIAL MEETING OF THE

Society of Early Americanists

31 March-2 April 2005 Old Town Alexandria, Virginia

PROGRAM

THURSDAY, 31 MARCH

8:00-9:15: Welcome Address by Zabelle Stodola, President, SEA, (Ballroom)
SEA Business Meeting

9:30-11:00: SESSION I

1. Science and Religion in the Colonial Americas, 1500 - 1800 (Ballroom)
   • Chair: Sarah Rivett (U Chicago)
   • Sarah H. Beckjord (Boston C), Science and Religion in the Early Spanish Historiography of the Indies.
   • Cristobal Silva (Texas Tech U), 'Europe has paid its debt unto America': Epidemiological Discourses in Boston, 1721.
   • Jared Hickman (Harvard U), Decoding the Cultural in 'Natural Religion': Amerindians, Enlightenment, and the Cosmopolitan Ideal.
   
   
2. 'public travels in the service of Truth': The Textuality of Transatlantic Quakerism (Madison South)
   
   • Chair: Michele Lise Tarter (C of New Jersey)
   • Lisa M. Gordis (Barnard C), 'George Fox was a very famous man': Representing Fox's Travels in America.
   • Kenneth A. Shelton (Boston C), 'Mother of all Churches': The London Yearly Meeting and the Keithian Schism.
   • Michael A. Heller (Roanoke C), Traveling in Body and Spirit: John Woolman's Transatlantic Quaker Witness.
   
   
3. Prophets & Mystics (Kennedy)
   • Chair: Michael Spake (Independent Scholar)
   • Patrick M. Erben (Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture), The Ephrata Conundrum: Mystical Language and Multilingual Publication.
   • Anne Myles (U Northern Iowa), New England Judged: Anne Hutchinson's Prophetic Afterlife.
   • Etta Madden (Southwest Missouri SU), Shaking, Slaking and Baking: Visions of Shaker Eating and Drinking.
   
   
4. Representing Insurrection: Early America and Its Discontents (Roosevelt West)
   • Chair: Charles Bradshaw (U Tennessee, Martin)
   • Sue Hemberger (James Madison Memorial Fellowship Foundation), Re-Reading the Rebellions: Sovereignty and Sedition in the Early Republic.
   • Naomi Mandel (U Rhode Island), Reading Insurrection: Rhetorical Performance and Ethical Practice in 'Confessions of Nat Turner'.
   • Trish Roberts-Miller (U Texas, Austin), The Rhetorical Power of the Insurrection Topos in Proslavery Discourse.
   
   
5. The Domestification of Foreign Intelligence (I) (Roosevelt East)
   • Chair :  Michael Drexler (Bucknell U)  
   • Phyllis Hunter (U North Carolina-Greensboro), Spectacles of Empire: Reading the Foreign News in Early America.
   • Lisa Logan (U Central Florida), Anne Bonny and Mary Read: The Circulation of the Homoerotic and the Women Pirates of the Caribbean.
   • Christopher Ianinni (McNeil Center, U Pennsylvania), French Natural History, Continental Expansion, and the Plotting of a Circum-Caribbean South.

11:15-12:45: SESSION II (plenary) (Ballroom)

Presidential Panel : Colloquy with Cathy Davidson on Revolution and the Word: Twenty Years Along
Panelists: Susan Castillo (U Glasgow); Cathy Davidson (Duke U); Elizabeth Maddock Dillon (Yale U); Dennis Moore, moderator (Florida SU); Lisa West Norwood (Drake U); Len Tennenhouse (Brown U); Dan Williams (Texas Christian U).

2:15-3:45: SESSION III

1. Brown, History, and the Historical Imagination (Roosevelt West)
   • Chair: Oliver Scheiding (U Mainz)
   • Philip Barnard (U Kansas), Gothic History in Brown's Historical Sketches.
   • Mark Kamrath (U Central Florida), C.B Brown, Spanish American Republics, and the 'favorite rhetoric of Miranda and Burr'.
   • Ed White (Louisiana SU), The Other Machiavellian Moment.
   • Comment: Bryan Waterman (NYU)
   
   
2. Native Places and the Place of Natives in the American Settler Imagination (Roosevelt East)
   • Chair: Eric Slauter (U Chicago)
   • Martin Brückner (U Delaware), Conflicting Sources of Place: Native American Geographies and the Construction of 'Louisiana' in the Journals of Lewis and Clark.
   • Ian Chambers (U California, Riverside), 'Space: The Final Frontier?' Space and Movement in the Colonial Southeast.
   • Tom Hallock (U South Florida, St. Petersburg), Shell Mounds and Indianness.
   • Sian Silyn Roberts (Brown U), Transpacific Encounters: The Place of the Indian in John Ledyard's 'New Worlds'.
   
   
3. The Domestification of Foreign Intelligence II: St. Domingue/Haiti (Kennedy)
   • Chair: Michael Drexler (Bucknell U)
   • Jeffrey Fortin (U New Hampshire), A Conspiratorial Menace: French Insurgents, the Haitian Revolution and the Second Maroon War, 1794-1796.
   • John Davies (U of Delaware), Reflections and Apprehensions: The Partisan Press in Philadelphia and the Haitian Revolution.
   • Amanda Emerson (U South Dakota), William Dunlap's Andre, a Double Agent of Democratic Revolution.
   
   
4. Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism (Ballroom Jefferson)
   • Chair: Leonard Tennenhouse (Brown U)
   • Jason Solinger (The Citadel) , Cosmopolitanism and American Republicanism.
   • Elizabeth Maddock Dillon (Yale U), Cosmopolitics, Gender, and the Illuminati.
   • Jim Egan (Brown U) , Philip Freneau's Unamerican Imaginings.
   • Response: Leonard Tennenhouse (Brown U)
   
   
5. Law and Literature in Early America (Madison South)
   • Chair: Kathryn E. Mudgett (Independent Scholar)
   • David J. Carlson (California SU, San Bernardino), Democratic Readers: Legal Nationalism in John Neal s Rachel Dyer.
   • Richard Frohock (Oklahoma SU), Woodes Rogers's Republic of Words: Creating the Privateer in A Cruising Voyage (1712).
   • Christopher Phillips (Stanford U), Constitutional Epic: Madison, the Marshall Court, and the Constitution as Heroic Text.

4:00-5:30: SESSION IV

1. Slavery and Literacy in Early America (Roosevelt East)
   • Chair: Jeffrey H. Richards (Old Dominion U)
   • Shevaun E. Watson, (U South Carolina), Enslaved Teachers and Plantation Literacy: The Case of the Charleston 'Negroe School'.
   • Konstantin Dierks (Indiana U), Slave Literacy and Visions of Agency in Early America.
   • Susanna Ashton (Clemson U), Bound: William Grimes and the Competitive Nature of Print.
   
   
   
2. Roundtable: Early Native Literacies (Ballroom Jefferson)
   
   • Chairs:
     • Kristina Bross (Purdue U)
     • Hilary Wyss (Auburn U)
   • Panelists:
     • Philip Round (U Iowa),
     • Sandra Gustafson (Notre Dame U),
     • Joanna Brooks (U Texas)
     • Heather Bouwman (U St. Thomas)
     • Jodi Schorb (Hamilton C)
   
   
3. Phillis Wheatley and the Promise of African American Literature (Roosevelt West)
   • Chair: Vincent Carretta (U Maryland)
   • Stephanie Elsky (U Pennsylvania), 'Soft captivity involves the mind': Liberty and Imagination in Phillis Wheatley's Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral.
   • April Langley (U Missouri, Columbia), Reconstructing Hagar: Phillis Wheatley's 'Niobe' and the Restoration of African-American Motherhood.
   • Rosemary Fithian Guruswamy (Radford U), Phillis Wheatley and the Future of African-American Hymnody.
     
     
4. Stranger than Fiction: Contemporary Poets and Historical Inspiration (Kennedy)
   • Chair: Cathy Rex (Auburn U)
   • Kristin Berkey-Abott (Art Institute of Ft. Lauderdale), Running from the Plantation of Despair.
   • Cynthia Nichols (North Dakota SU), Poems of The Lost Colony.
   • Imogene Wallenfels (Syracuse U), A Similar Machine: Poems.
   • Salita Bryant (New York U), Violent and Hasty Passions.
     
     
5. Roundtable: Staging Early America: Theatrical Expressions of Culture and Identity (Madison South)
   • Chair: Jason Shaffer (United States Naval Academy)
   • Maura Cronin-Jortner (U Pittsburgh), Jonathan on Stage: Acting out the Margins of the English Empire.
   • Richard K. Tharp (U Maryland), 'A Matter Between Heaven and my Conscience': Religious Antecedents in James Nelson Barker's Superstition.
   • Chrystyna Dail (U Maryland), Wicked Happenings: Theatrical Reactions to the Salem Witch Trials.
   • Samuel T. Shanks (CUNY), The Politics of Entertainment.
   
   

5:30-7:00: Reception (Ballroom Washington).

FRIDAY, 1 APRIL

8:00-9:15: Women's Caucus Breakfast (Chequers Lounge)

9:30-11:00: SESSION V

1. Contesting Conversions: Seventeenth-Century Transformations (Kennedy)
   • Chair: Lisa Gordis (Barnard C)
   • Joanne Van Der Woude (U Virginia), The Colonially Converted: Physical Journeys and Spiritual Travails in Early American Self-Narrative.
   • Jonathan Beecher Field (Clemson U), 'That Great Point of Their Conversion': Roger Williams's 'Christenings Make not Christians' and the Rhetoric of Puritan Missions.
   • Meredith Neuman (UCLA and Clark Memorial Library),'Was Anyone Ever Converted by Reading a Sermon Cycle?': Practical Theology and Publication in 17th-c New England.
   
   
2. Making Manhood: Alternative Masculinities on the Borders of the Nation (Madison South)
   • Chair: Sandra Gustafson (U Notre Dame)
   • Sara Crosby (U Notre Dame), Charles Hansford, Plain Style Poet and 'Tender Parent' of Virginia.
   • Chiara Cillerai (Rutgers U), Literal and Figurative Correspondences: The Cosmopolitan Origins of Early American Identity in the Works of Philip Mazzei.
   • Heidi Oberholtzer Lee (U Notre Dame), Real Men Eat Meat: Culinary Choice and Masculinity in the Journals of Lewis and Clark.
   
   
3. The Emotional Effect: Evoking Reader Response in the Republican Era (Roosevelt West )
   • Chair: Jennifer Desiderio (Florida International U)
   • Catherine A. Swender (Spring Hill C), Feeling History: Susanna Rowson's Reuben and Rachel and the Historical Education of Daughters.
   • Jill Kirsten Anderson (Grand Valley SU), Dueling with the Gendered Reader: Emotional Challenges in John Neal's Keep Cool.
   • Jennifer R. Dawson (Aquinas C), 'Spiritual Communion' and Self-Culture: Evolving Epistolary Addresses in Lydia Sigourney's Letters to Young Ladies.
   
   
4. The Uses of Print in Early America: Readership, Interpretation, and Material Culture (Ballroom Jefferson )
   • Chair: Karen Weyler (U North Carolina, Greensboro)
   • Alexis Antracoli (Brandeis U), Material Devotion: Sensory Bible Readings in Colonial Massachusetts.
   • Michelle Orihel (Syracuse U), 'The Memorable Year 1640' in the Mind of John Adams: An American Patriot's Reading of English Revolutionary Pamphlets.
   • Theresa Gaul (Texas Christian U), Miscellany and Racial Politics in the Cherokee Phoenix.
   • Response: Karen Weyler
   
   
5. Technology, Electronic Resources, and Teaching Early American Literature (Roosevelt East)
   • Chair: Susan Clair Imbarrato (Minnesota SU, Moorhead)
   • Panelists:
     • Ralph Bauer (U Maryland)
     • Edward J. Gallagher (Lehigh U)
     • Tamara Harvey (George Mason U)
     • Laura Henigman (James Madison U)
     • Mark Kamrath (U Central Florida)
     • Alan J. Silva (Hamline U)
     
     
     

11:15-12:45: SESSION VI

1. Meet the Editors & Representatives from the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History and the Newberry Library (Madison South)
   • Chair: Zabelle Stodola (U Arkansas, Little Rock)
   • Panelists:
     • James G. Basker (Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History)
     • Christopher Grasso (Editor, William and Mary Quarterly)
     • Sandra M. Gustafson (Book Review Editor, Early American Literature)
     • David S. Shields (Editor, Early American Literature)
     • Carla Zecher (Director, Center for Renaissance Studies, The Newberry Library)
     • Ralph Bauer (Associate Editor, Resources for American Literary Study)
   
   
2. British-American Poetry and the Circum-Atlantic World (Kennedy)
   • Chair: Larry F. Kutchen (Trinity U)
   • Elizabeth Ferszt (Wayne SU), Rejecting a New English Aesthetic: The Early Poems of Anne Bradstreet.
   • Michael Cody (East Tennessee SU), 'Brighten Up th'Atlantic Skies': Matthew Carey's The Beauties of Poetry, British and American.
   • Ivy Wilson (U Notre Dame),'The Fire Next Time': Wordsworth, Whittier, Haiti, and the Politics of a Trans-Atlantic Poetics.
     
     
3. Risk, Secrecy, and Transactions of Privacy (Ballroom Jefferson)
   • Chair: Jennifer Jordan Baker (Yale U)
   • Joseph S. Bonica (Rutgers U), Blackmail and the Political Invention of Emotional Terror in the Eighteenth Century.
   • Eric Wertheimer (Arizona SU), Unde Malum: The Anxiety of Ben Franklin.
   • Max Cavitch (U of Pennsylvania), Richard Nisbett's Privacy and Yours.
   • Christopher Looby (UCLA), Lippard and Secrecy.
   
   
4. American Foundation Myths: The 19th Century Remembers the 17th (Roosevelt West)
   • Chair: Heather Bouwman (U St. Thomas, St. Paul)
   • Abigail Davis (U Minnesota), 17th Century Captivity Narratives, 19th Century Fiction, and the Formation of Cultural Memory: Mary Rowlandson, Eunice Williams, Hobomok and Hope Leslie.
   • Laura Pascarelli (Chapman U), Nathaniel Hawthorne's House of Seven Gables and the Myth of the Covenant.
   • Michael Householder (Southern Methodist U), The Literary Apotheosis of John Eliot.
   • Denise MacNeil (U of Redlands), Edgar Huntly and the Gendered, Racialized Heroics of Mary Rowlandson's The Captivity and the Restauration.
   
   
5. Roundtable: Developing Research Teams for the Transamerican Study of Colonial Women (Roosevelt East)
   • Chair: Tamara Harvey (George Mason U)
   • Panelists:
     • Kristina Bross (Purdue U)
     • Ivy Schweitzer (Dartmouth C)
     • Susan Castillo (U Glasgow)
     • Sharon Harris (Texas Christian U)
   
   

2:15-3:45: SESSION VII

1. Rumor and Recital in the Early American Novel (Madison South)
   • Chair: Mark Kamrath (U Central Florida)
   • Crystal L. O'Leary ( Middle Georgia C), 'A Grave for this Book': Authorial Anxiety and Textual Fetishism in Charles Brockden Brown's Wieland and Edgar Huntly.
   • Jennifer Camden (Ohio SU), Transatlantic Quixotism: Tenney and Lennox.
   • Desirée Henderson (U Texas, Arlington), Did Sarah Wentworth Morton Write The Power of Sympathy?: The History and Significance of a Rumor.
   • Jennifer Desiderio (Florida International U), 'Secrets,' 'mysterious words,' and 'those expressive looks' in the Early American Novel.
   
   
2. Parody, Power and the Public Sphere (Ballroom Jefferson)
   • Chair: Christopher Grasso (C of William and Mary)
   • Joseph Fichtelberg (Hofstra U), The Other Public Sphere: Honor and Parody in Susanna Rowson's Trials of the Human Heart.
   • Stephen Thomas (Pennsylvania SU), Clubbical Liberty's Fatal Cake.
   • Colin Wells (St. Olaf C), 'Tory Lies ... in Proclamation:' Thomas Gage, Verse Parody, and the Proclamation War of 1774-1775.
   
   
3. Figuring Washington (Roosevelt East)
   • Chair: Brandon Brame Fortune (National Portrait Gallery)
   • David Steinberg (Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture), Portrait as Instrument: Washington's First Likeness.
   • Catherine E. Kelly (U Oklahoma), Picturing and Purchasing the President.
   • Wendy Bellion (U Delaware), Likeness and Deception in Rembrandt Peale's Patriae Pater.
   • Response: Ellen Miles (National Portrait Gallery)
   
   
4. Women and Material Culture: Gendered Productions in Early Nineteenth-Century America (Roosevelt West)
   • Chair: Ann Brunjes (Bridgewater SC)
   • Susan M. Stabile (Texas A&M U), 'Walk Like an Egyptian': Deborah Logan's Vicarious Travels.
   • Susan Clair Imbarrato (Minnesota SU, Moorhead), The Traveller's Guide: Women's Travel Writings and the 'American Grand Tour'.
   • Mary McAleer Balkun (Seton Hall U), 'Hester at Her Needle': Cloth Production and Shifting Constructions of Womanhood in the Nineteenth Century.
   
   
5. Roundtable: Teaching Early American Studies in High School (Kennedy)
   • Chair: David Fritz (Harrison High School)
   • Panelists:
     • Peggy Syers (Rio Rancho High School)
     • Rachelle Friedman (Chapin School)
     • Darcy Fryer (The Brearley School)
     • Catherine Kaplan (Arizona SU)
   
   
6. Information Session: Early American Studies and the National Endowment for the Humanities: (Ballroom Washington)
   
   • Douglas Arnold (Senior Program Officer, Division of Education Programs, National Endowment for the Humanities)
   • Julia Huston Nguyen (Senior Program Officer, Division of Education Programs, National Endowment for the Humanities)

4:00-5:30: SESSION VIII

1. Aesthetics and Politics, 1680s-1790s (Roosevelt West)
   • Chair: Philip Gould (Brown U)
   • Michael Clark (U California, Irvine), Idealist Aesthetics and Colonial Politics in Aphra Behn's Oroonoko.
   • Wilson Brissett (U Virginia), Jonathan Edwards and Thomas Jefferson: The Beauty of Force, the Politics of Progress.
   • Ezra Tawil (Columbia U), New Forms of Sublimity: Edgar Huntly and the Topography of American Subjectivity.
   
   
2. Transatlantic Intellectual Networks in the Age of Revolutions (Kennedy)
   • Chair: David Shields (U South Carolina)
   • J. Patrick Mullins (U Kentucky), 'Ye Friends of Liberty': Jonathan Mayhew's British Correspondents and the Transatlantic Enlightenment, 1750-1761.
   • Tom Baughn (Catholic U of America), Eighteenth Century Constitutional Conversations between France and America.
   • Dietmar Schloss (U Heidelberg), Transatlantic Radicalisms: Joel Barlow's and Thomas Paine's Responses to Edmund Burke.
   • Mischa Honeck (U Heidelberg), Investigating America: Christoph Daniel Ebeling and the Genesis of American Studies in Germany.
   
   
3. Job Clinic Panel (Madison South)
   • Chair: Kristina Bross (Purdue U)
   • Panelists:
     • Jodi Schorb (Hamilton C)
     • Jeffrey Richards (Old Dominion U)
     • Elisa Tamarkin (U California, Irvine)
     • Heidi Oberholtzer Lee (Notre Dame U)
     • Lisa Logan (U Central Florida)
     
     
4. Using Early American Materials in the College Classroom (Roosevelt East)
   • Chair: Lorrayne Carroll (U Southern Maine)
   • Edward M. Griffin (U Minnesota), The New Digital Evans: Opportunities for Classroom Use.
   • Emily B. Todd (Westfield SC), Making Do with Limited Resources: Strategies for Using Archival Materials When There's No Archive.
   • Edward J. Gallagher (Lehigh U), New Developments in Web-Based Instruction.
   
   
5. Mediating Science (Ballroom Jefferson)
   • Chair: Etta Madden (Southwest Missouri SU)
   • Kathy O. McGill (George Mason U), 'Here Also Are Many Other Animals': Travelers to British North America Engage (Or Not) with the Ideas of Buffon.
   • William Huntting Howell (Northwestern U), Reproducing David Rittenhouse.
   • Janie Hinds (SUNY Brockport), Charles Wilson Peale: Display, Natural History, Class.

6:00-8:00: Reception at Gadsby's Tavern, Alexandria, VA

SATURDAY, 2 APRIL

9:30-11:00: SESSION IX: (Plenary): Joseph Roach (Yale U), Outlaw Glamour: Time Pirates of the Caribbean (Ballroom)

11:15-12:45: SESSION X

1. 'Just Do It'? The Pain and Pleasure of Researching Early American Literature (Kennedy)
   • Chair: Patrick M. Erben (Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture/U of West Georgia)
   • E. Thomson Shields, Jr., (East Carolina U), How the Texts We Use Affect the Research We Do.
   • F. Andrew McMichael (Western Kentucky U), Utilizing Non-English Language Sources and Archives.
   • Diana M. Vela (Texas Christian U), A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Archives.
   • Anne G. Myles (U of Northern Iowa), Being Real: Pleasures and Terrors of the Personal.
   
   
2. The Performance of Early American Culture (Madison South)
   • Chair: Joseph Fichtelberg (Hofstra U)
   • Joshua David Bellin (La Roche C), John Eliot's Playing Indian.
   • Anna Mae Duane (U Connecticut), Pregnancy and Performance in the American Seduction Novel.
   • Lucy Rinehart (DePaul U), Cultural Performances, Cultures of Performance, and the Early American Theater.
   
   
3. Cosmopolitan Literacies in Early America (Ballroom)
   •  Chair: Philip Gould (Brown U)  
   • Patricia Johnston (Salem SC), Samuel F.B. Morse's Theories of Art.
   • Elisa Tamarkin (U California, Irvine), American Elegies for British Empire.
   •  Thomas Conroy (Stonehill C), Patronage, Party, and Plaster: Building Federalism in  Post-Revolutionary Boston.
   
   
4. Islam in Early National Print Culture (Roosevelt West)
   • Chair: Dan Williams (Texas Christian U)
   • Dan Hicks (Pennsylvania SU), 'Sympathetic Hearts and Homogenial souls': Barbary Captivity Narratives and the American Civilizing Process in the Early National Period.
   • Brian Yothers (U Texas, El Paso), 'Tears of Sympathy': Slavery, Emancipation, and Islamic-Christian Dialogue in Royall Tyler's The Algerine Captive.
   • Robert Battistini (Franklin and Marshall C), Walking in 'Abu Casem's Slippers' around 'The Mahometan Pig': Muslims in Early Republican Periodicals.
   • Julie Voss (U Kentucky), 'The Only Victims of American Independence': Barbary Captives and Their Tales.
   
   
5. Nature's Texts and Contexts (Roosevelt East)
   • Chair: Thomas Hallock (U South Florida St. Petersburg)
   • Richard Judd (U Maine),The Naturalist's Narrative: Travel Journals and the Origins of Ecological Thinking, 1730-1830.
   • Ann M. Brunjes (Bridgewater SU), Timothy Dwight's Imaginative Conundrum: Resistant Landscapes and the Aboriginal 'slack hand'.
   • Doreen Alvarez-Saar (Drexel U), Distilling Nature: Cures and Commonplaces in Philadelphia.
   • Response: Dennis Moore (Florida SU)
   
   

2:15-3:45: SESSION XI

1. Women and Early American Studies (Ballroom)
   • Chair: Joanna Brooks (U Texas, Austin)
   • Chair: Lisa Logan (U Central Florida)  
   • Lorrayne Carroll (U Southern Maine), But Does She Have Experience?.
   • Annette Kolodny (U of Arizona), Five Important Books We Have Yet to Write in Early American Women's Studies.
   • Carla Mulford (Pennsylvania SU), Hidden Hands.
   • Jodi Schorb (Hamilton C), Tears for Queers:  Sentiment and Sexuality Beyond the SEA.
   • Ivy Schweitzer (Dartmouth C), From Women's Studies, to Gender, Queer and Sexuality Studies in Early America.
   
   
2. Teaching 'Historical Awareness' with Sedgwick and Her Contemporaries (Roosevelt West)
   • Chair: Lisa West Norwood (Drake U)
   • Lucinda Damon-Bach (Salem SU), Re-Examining -- or Re-inventing? -- The Past: Shays' Rebellion and Post-Revolutionary New England Slavery in Sedgwick's Fiction.
   • Karen Woods Weierman (Worcester SC), Teaching Sedgwick's Usable Past.
   • Laura Beadling (Purdue U), Sedgwick's Hope Leslie in the Undergraduate Classroom: Blurring the Lines Between History, Historical Fiction, and/or Historiography.
   
   
3. Early American Sermons as Popular Literature (Roosevelt East)
   
   • Chair: Robert Battistini (Franklin and Marshall C)
   • Kyle Roberts (U Pennsylvania), 'Take Heed How You Hear': George Whitefield's Sermons as Popular Literature and Popular Religion.
   • Jacob Blosser (U South Carolina), Pursuing Happiness: John Tillotson's Collected Works, Latitudinarian Theology, and the Making of Transatlantic Anglicanism in Virginia.
   • Wilson Kimnach (U Bridgeport), Frightful Inspiration, Sweet Elevation: Homiletical Resources of Eighteenth-Century Spirituality.
   • Whitney Trump (Franklin & Marshall C), So Many Cities on the Hill: Generic Stasis, Innovation, and Differentiation in a Hundred Eighteenth-century American Sermons.
   
   
4. Failed Ventures (Kennedy)
   • Chair: E. Thomson Shields (Eastern Carolina U)
   • John Navin (Coastal Carolina U), 'Prepare for evil tidings of us every day': How Failed Colonizing Ventures Affected Early Plimoth Colony.
   • Duncan Faherty (Queens C), 'And their houses laid in ruins': William Bartram's Taxonomy of Failed Colonial Ventures.
   • David Shields (U South Carolina), The Man With the Plan-John Dalrymple, writing the blueprint for two failed British invasions of Spanish America.
   
   
5. The Economies of Early American Literature (Madison South)
   • Chair: Scott Ellis (Southern Connecticut SU)
   • Marion Rust (U Virginia), Exceeding Economy: Lucy Temple and the Challenge to Disciplinary Intimacy.
   • Jeffrey C. Osborne (Murray SU), Counterfeiting Character: Franklin and the Art(ifice) of Textual Production.
   • Jane Hikel (Central Connecticut SU), Educating Women in the New Republic: An Investment in 'Home Economics'.
   • Response: Jennifer Jordan Baker (Yale U)

4:00-5:30 SESSION XII

1. Dramas and Theaters in the South before 1820 (Roosevelt East)
   • Chair: Heather Nathans (U Maryland)
   • Troy Thompson (U South Florida), 'Fit for the Reception of Ladies and Gentlemen': Power, Space, and Politeness within Colonial American Playhouses.
   • Jason Shaffer (United States Naval Academy), Performing Plantocracy: Cumberland's The West Indian in the Early American Theatre.
   • Jeffrey H. Richards (Old Dominion U), A Transatlantic Repertoire: The Norfolk Stage, 1797-1800.
   
   
2. Geography, Genre, and Communal Identity (Roosevelt West)
   • Chair: Stephen Arch (Michigan SU)
   • Keri Holt (Brown U), 'A Cursory Glance at its Capabilities': The Geographic Imagination of the Early American Novel.
   • Susan Scott Parrish (U Michigan), Fitting Time to Place: Almanacs in the Colonial and Revolutionary Periods.
   • Timothy Sweet (West Virginia U), 'What Concernment hath America in these Things!' Local and Global in Samuel Sewall's Plum Island Passage.
   
   
3. Roundtable: Teaching with Colonial House (2004) (Kennedy)
   • Chair: Michael Everton (U South Florida)
   • Chair: Laura Mielke (Iowa SU)
   • Chris Czajka (National Teacher Training Institute)
   • Liz Lodge (Museum Programs at Plimoth Plantation in Plymouth, Mass.)
   • Craig Tuminaro (Preservation Programs at Woodlawn and Frank Lloyd Wright’s Pope-Leighey House in Mount Vernon)
   
   
4. Benjamin Franklin and His Worlds (Madison South)
   • Chair: Christopher Hunter (U Pennsylvania)
   • Douglas Anderson (U Georgia), The Carlisle Treaty and the Uses of Cunning.
   • J.A. Leo Lemay (U Delaware) , The Fundamental Document of the American Revolution.
   • Carla Mulford (Pennsylvania SU), Benjamin Franklin and the Ends of Empire.
   
   
5. Figures of Native American Sovereignty (Ballroom)
   • Chair: Hilary Wyss (Auburn U)
   • Gordon Sayre (U Oregon), Dumont de Montigny's Underbelly of Sovereign Authority in Louisiana.
   • Paul Downes (U Toronto), Sovereign Vulnerability: Native Americans in the Revolutionary Imaginary.
   • Jonathan Elmer (Indiana U), Included as Excluded: The Anomaly of Indian Sovereignty.
   • Comment: Elizabeth Maddock Dillon (Yale U)
   
   
   
   

7:00-10:00 pm: optional theater or concert events in and around Washington DC