Teaching Early American Topics

Syllabi for Graduate Courses

American and British Identity in 18th Century Literature Jim Egan (Brown University)

American Indian Autobiography David J. Carlson (California State University, San Bernardino)

American Literature to 1810 Jeffrey H. Richards (Old Dominion University)

American Literature to 1865 Tim Sweet (West Virginia University)

Benjamin Franklin’s America Edward Cahill (Fordham University)

Captives, Housewives, and Coquettes: Early American Women’s Literature Lisa M. Logan (University of Central Florida)

Conquest of the Americas / The Invasion of the Turtle Island Dennis Tedlock (University at Buffalo)

Cultural Studies and Early American Texts  Matthew P. Brown  (Northern Illinois University)

Early American Literature Philip Gould (Brown University)

Early American Literature Jeanne Holland (University of Wyoming)

Early American Literature Reiner Smolinski (Georgia State University)

Early American Literature and Its Later Influences E. Thomson Shields, Jr. (East Carolina University)

Early American Literatures Ross J. Pudaloff (Wayne State University)

Early American Novel Stephen Arch (Michigan State University)

Encountering Others Ross J. Pudaloff (Wayne State University)

Indigenous Genres: American Literary Forms, 1492-1850 David Mitchell (Northern Michigan University)

Literature, Science, and Empire across the Eighteenth-Century Americas Ralph Bauer (University of Maryland)

Liberty and Slavery in American Literary History Philip Gould (Brown University)

Mercurius Americanus: Magic, Miracles, and Metaphors in the Conquest of America Ralph Bauer (University of Maryland)

"Nature's Nation" Tim Sweet (West Virginia University)

New World, Ideal World E. Thomson Shields, Jr. (East Carolina University)

Origins of the American Novel David Curtis (Belmont University)

Prospero's Progeny: Magic, Science, and the Poetics of Colonial American Writing, 1492-1800 Ralph Bauer (University of Maryland)

Puritan Literary Traditions Sargent Bush (University of Wisconsin)

The Puritan Tradition Robert Daly (University of Buffalo)

Reading and Teaching the "New" Early American Literature Michael W. Vella (Indiana University of Pennsylvania)

Readings in British Colonial North America Charles L. Cohen (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

The 'Rebellious Muse': Literature and Ideology in the Revolutionary Americas Ralph Bauer (University of Maryland)

Revolution and American Identity Jane T. Merritt (Old Dominion University)

Rhetoric and Representation of Otherness Peter Sands (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee)

Rise of the U.S. Novel Lisa Logan (University of Central Florida)

Stories of the Republic Judith Hiltner (Saint Xavier University)

Studies in Early American Literature: Enlightenment Discourses, Imperial Enchantments Carla Mulford (Pennsylvania State University)

Transatlantic English Literature before 1800 Laura Stevens (University of Tulsa)

The Transatlantic Stage: Drama and Theater in British America and the United States, 1675-1860  Jeffrey H. Richards (Old Dominion University)

Women's Texts and Contexts Sharon M. Harris (University of Nebraska)