The Society of Early Americanists at the American Literature Association Conference
Boston, May 24-27, 2007
TWO REMINDERS for participants in these SEA Sessions:
- Each presenter at the ALA needs to register for the conference, which you can do by going to the ALA's website, at http://www.calstatela.edu/academic/english/ala2/ and following their link to "2007 ALA Conference."
- The SEA does ask each person on an SEA Session to be, or to become, a member of our organization. If you're on one of four sessions but are not yet an SEA member, we welcome you; please go to the SEA Membership page
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Department of English
University of Central Florida
Orlando, FL 32816-1346
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Society of Early Americanists at the American Literature Association Conference, Boston, May 24-27, 2007
Thursday, May 24, 2007, 8:30 – 9:50 am
Session 1-D Carnal Effects: Sexuality, Textuality, Urbanity
Chair: Dennis Moore, Florida State University, on behalf of the Society of Early Americanists
- “Domestic Mysteries: Autonomy and Citizenship in Crèvecoeur’s Letters from an American Farmer,” Stefanie Head, University of Rhode Island
- “Sex and the City: Eighteenth-Century Boston Women Look at Marriage and Motherhood,” Kathleen McDonald, Norwich University
- “The Gothic Locke: Charles Brockden Brown’s Other Individualisms,” Siân Silyn Roberts, Brown University
- “Paper Bodies: Theorizing Eighteenth-Century American Women’s Epistolarity through the Letters of Eliza Lucas Pinckney,” Kacy Tillman, University of Mississippi
Thursday, May 24, 2007, 5:30 – 6:50pm
Session 7-B Writing the Margins at the Margins: Early American Boundaries
Chair: Susan Castillo, King’s College, London, on behalf of the Society of Early Americanists
- “ ‘Good Englishmen Arrrgh We!’: Basil Ringrose and the Piratical Project of Anglo Identity,” Todd Hagstette, University of South Carolina
- “Twice Caught, Once Freed: Unlawful Subjectivity and Sketches of the Life of Joseph Mountain, a Negro,” Donna Hunter, Stanford University
- “Mary Kinnan as Ecocritical Captive: Nature in 18th Century Captivity Narratives,” Amanda L. Irvin, University of Central Florida, Orlando
- “Survival Spanish in La Florida: Jonathan Dickinson’s God’s Protecting Providence (1699),” Lisa Voigt, University of Chicago
Friday, May 25, 2007, 8:00 – 9:20 am
Session 8-J: The Teaching Problem: Pedagogy and Early American Material
Chair: Thomas W. Krise, University of Central Florida on behalf of the Society of Early Americanists
- “Teaching Early American Literature in the Digital Archive,” Walt Nott, Kutztown University
- “Teaching Interdisciplinarity with Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca’s La Relación,” Katherine E. Ledford, Gardner-Webb University and Mars Hill College
- “Navigating Theological Particularity and Diversity in the Early American Literature Classroom,” William C. Corley, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
- “Teaching the Unpublished: 18th-Century Women’s Autobiographers in New England,” Mischelle Anthony, Wilkes University
Friday, May 25, 2007, 5:00 – 6:20 pm
Session 15-M: Business Meeting: Society of Early Americanists (Location tba)
Saturday, May 26, 2007, 2:00 – 3:20 pm
Session 20-H Fixing the Mush: Behavioral Training in Early America
Chair: Susan Imbarrato, Minnesota State University, Moorhead on behalf of the Society of Early Americanists
- “ ‘Between the Human and Brutal Creation’: Constructions of the Criminal in Early U.S. Print Culture,” Erin Forbes, Princeton University
- “ ‘Forming the Young Man’s Mind’: Literacy, Quakerism, and the Discourses of Masculinity, 1778-1840,” Evan Kontarinis, University of New Hampshire
- “Reading for an American Hero: Women’s Fiction in the Early Republic,” Jessica Lang, Baruch College, CUNY
- “Enlightening the New England Mind: Jonathan Mayhew and the Epistemological Origins of the American Revolution,” John Patrick Mullins, Saginaw Valley State University