Society of Early Americanists

SEA Panels at the American Literature Association

San Francisco, May 27-30, 2004

The SEA will present four panels at the meeting of the American Literature Association in San Francisco, May 27-30, 2004. Information about those panels is listed below.

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 "2004 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 these four sessions but aren't yet an SEA member, we welcome you; please simply click here.

Thanks, and do plan to propose a paper for our fourth biennial conference at Alexandria, Virginia, which is fast approaching on March 31-April 2, 2005! 

SEA Panels

"EARLY AMERICAN LITERACIES"

Chair:  Susan Scott PARRISH, University of Michigan and the Society of Early Americanists

• “The Walam Olum and Native North American Literacies"--Andrew NEWMAN, University of California, Irvine

• "Personal Narrative as Social Practice: The Preface in Early American Print Culture"--Raymond CRAIG, Kent State University

• "Globalization, Spanish America and the Rhetorics of Religion"--Jennifer L. EICH, Loyola Marymount

• "The First English-Only Debates in America"--Michael CLARK, University of California, Irvine
  

"XENOPHOBIA AND CULTURAL EXCHANGE"

Chair:  David J. CARLSON, California State University, San Bernardino, and the Society of Early Americanists

• " 'They Awake and their Home has Disappeared' : The French Frontier in Henry Marie Brackenridge and Henry Rowe Schoolcraft"-- Edward S. WATTS, Michigan State University

• " 'Published to An Indian' :  Miscegenation, Gender, and Familial Dynamics in a Nineteenth-Century Epistolary Exchange"--Theresa Strouth GAUL, Texas Christian University

• "Empire, Slave Insurrection, and the Culture of Sensation"--Rick RODRIGUEZ, Loyola University Chicago
  

"THE 'OTHER' "

Chair:  Zabelle STODOLA, University of Arkansas, Little Rock,  and the Society of Early Americanists

• "Cotton Mather, The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to Philemon, and the Making of Puritan Slavery" -- Kathryn S. KOO, Saint Mary's College of California

• "The Making and Un-Making of an Event: Daniel Gookin's History of King Philip's War" -- J. Patrick CESARINI, University of South Alabama

• "'Bewailing' Anglo-American 'Luxury and Covetousness': John Woolman and the 'Failing Prospects' of the Indian Other" -- Andrew WHITE, Washington State University

• "According to the Indian Custom': Literary and Ethnographic Authenticities of Captivity Narratives" -- Yael BEN-ZVI, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel
  

"THEATRICS"

Chair:  Dennis MOORE, Florida State University and the Society of Early Americanists

• "Reinventing a Reinvented Past: A New Approach to the Colonial Theatre" --Jason SHAFFER, US Naval Academy

• "Transatlantic Republican Sentiment" -- Elizabeth DILLON, Yale University

• "Wignell's Vision of Virtuous Womanhood: One Line at a Time" -- Valerie JOYCE, University of Maryland