Morning Coffee RECEPTION, co-hosted by

the Society of Early Americanists & the Society for the Study of American Women Writers

Thursday Morning, May 22, 7:45-8:45 (Pacific E)

Please join us!

Panels organized by the Society of Early Americanists: ALA, San Francisco, 2008

Thursday, May 22, 9:00 – 10:20 am

Session 1-C   Reconsidering Revolutionary Early America: Rhetoric, Identity, and Literature (Pacific E)
Organized by the Society of Early Americanists

Chair: Thomas W. Krise, University of the Pacific

1.      “The Rhetoric of Revolution: Thomas Paine and a Coercive ‘Culture of Sensibility,’ ” Jonathan Nash, University at Albany

2.      “The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin,” J. A. Leo Lemay, University of Delaware

3.      “Fragmenting the Bard: Sarah Wentworth Morton, the American Revolution, and the Reconstitution of Epic Form,” Christopher N. Phillips, Lafayette College

4.      “Novel Diplomacies: Henry Marie Brackenridge’s Voyage to South America (1819) and Inter-American Revolutionary Literature,” Emily García, Grand Valley State University

Thursday, May 22, 10:30-11:50 am

Session 2-M    Business Meeting:   Society of Early Americanists  (Pacific G), Everyone is welcome to attend!

Thursday, May 22, 3:00 – 4:20 pm

Session 5-C    Native Americans: Images and Representations (1542-1820) (Pacific E)
Organized by the Society of Early Americanists

Chair:  Michael P. Clark, University of California, Irvine

1.         “The Rarest Gift: Sacrifice and Commerce in the American Conquest Narratives of Cabeza de Vaca and Garcilaso de la Vega,” Judith Irwin-Mulcahy, City University of New York Graduate Center

2.         “Translation and Transparency: Early Quaker Communication across Language Barriers,” Lisa Gordis, Barnard College

3.         “Suitable Melancholy and the Spectacle of the Dying Indian: Samson Occom’s ‘Difficult Task,’ ” Jodi Schorb, University of Florida

4.         “Poor Sarah and Images of Other Early Native Women,” Theresa Strouth Gaul, Texas Christian University

Friday, May 23, 3:30 – 4:50 pm

Session 12-H    Transatlantic: Bodies, Texts, Identities (Seacliff C)
Organized by the Society of Early Americanists

Chair: Christopher Looby, University of California, Los Angeles

1.      “Transatlantic, Transgenerational, Transexual: The Empowerment of Anne Bradstreet,” Rosemary Guruswamy, Radford University

2.      “A Transatlantic Puzzle: Roger Williams and John Milton,” David Read, University of Missouri

3.      “Tainted Bodies and Island Plantations: Interpreting Spirit Possession during the 1655/6 Quaker Missionary Invasion of Boston,” Joy A. J. Howard, Purdue University

4.      “Souls Upon Paper: The Eighteenth-Century Letter as Rhetorical Drag,” Kacy Tillman, University of Mississippi

Saturday, May 24, 9:30 – 10:50 am

Session 16-C    Teaching Early American Topics: A Roundtable (Pacific E)
Organized by the Society of Early Americanists

Moderator: Susan Imbarrato, Minnesota State University, Moorhead

1.      “Daniel Denton’s A Brief Description of New-York: A Response to the Phenomenal World of America,” Rosalie Baum, University of South Florida, Tampa

2.      “The Invention of Anne Bradstreet: Classroom practice, critical thinking, and the survey course,” Laura  von Wallmenich, Alma College.

3.      “Pitching Transatlanticism: Designing an Entry-Level Course on 18th-Century Anglophone Literature,” Leonard von Morze, University of Massachusetts, Boston

4.      “Irving’s Tory: Using Crèvecoeur, Paine, and Franklin to Read ‘Rip Van Winkle,’ ” Amy C. Branam, Frostburg State University

5.      “Teaching the Early American Grotesque,” Mary McAleer Balkun, Seton Hall University

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
American Literature Association’s website and following their link to “2008 ALA Conference.”

The SEA does ask each person on an SEA Session to be, or to become, a member of our organization.
If your paper is accepted and you are not yet an SEA member, we welcome you; please go to the SEA Membership page.