The Society of Early Americanists has organized the following panels at the American Literature Association Conference, San Francisco, May 27-30, 2010. Please join us!

Thursday, May 27, 2010, 1:30 - 2:50 pm
Session 4-F
Early American Novel: Dynamic Relationships and Cultural Influence
Chair: Kristina Bross, Purdue University

• “Antigones in America,” Hilary Emmett, University of Queensland
• “The Triumph of Nature: Natural Law and the Rise of the American Novel,” Laurel V. Hankins, Tufts University
•  “Dangerous Liaisons: Manipulating Friendship in Early American Fiction,” Melissa Pojasek, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
• “ ‘Betrayed by the vilest treachery to Cape Francois’: Martha Meredith Read’s Margaretta; or the Intricacies of the Heart and the Cultural Geography of the Early ‘American’ Novel,” Duncan Faherty, Queens College & the CUNY Graduate Center 

Friday, May 28, 2010, 12:30 - 1:50 pm
Session 10-H
Early American Religions: Rebellious Expressions and Spiritual Musings
Chair: Elisa Tamarkin, University of California, Berkeley

• “ ‘Blasting Rebukes of Providence’: Adapting and Transforming the Protestant Judgment Narrative,” Julie Sievers, St. Edward’s University
• “Material Spirituality in Early American Culture,” Wilson Brissett, United States Air Force Academy
• “The Quaker Invasion and the Invention of American Human Rights,” Bryce Traister, University of Western Ontario
• “ ‘To Speak New Things’: Quaker Speech and the Silent Meeting in New England,” Natalie Spar, Washington University in St. Louis

Friday, May 28, 2010, 2:00 - 3:20 pm
Session 11-L   
Business Meeting: The Society of Early Americanists.   Everyone is Welcome.   Please join us!

Saturday, May 29, 2010, 8:00 - 9:20 am
Session 15-E              
Articulating an Early American Identity: Aesthetics, Locale, Destiny
Chair: Edward Watts, Michigan State University

• “Elizabeth Graeme Fergusson’s Cosmopolis of Letters,” Chiara Cillerai, University of Pennsylvania
• “The Beautiful and Sublime Objects of Western Expansion,” Edward Cahill, Fordham University
• “Joel Barlow’s Poetry of History,” Helene Littmann, University of the Fraser Valley
• “Transatlantic Shandyism and Ailing Constitutions in William Dunlap’s The Father,” Laura McGrane, Haverford College

Saturday, May 29, 2010, 12:30 - 1:50 pm
Session 18-A
Teaching Early American Topics: Recovery, Renewal, and Revision
Chair:  Susan Imbarrato, Minnesota State University Moorhead

• “Race and Revision in Early America,” Kathleen Donegan, University of California, Berkeley
• “Lives fit to be Written: Community, Discourse, and Teaching The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin,” Frank Casale, Morgan State University
• “Lost and Found: Text Recovery in the Classroom,” Edward Watts, Michigan State University
• “Putting the West Indies on the Map,” Rekha Rosha, Wake Forest University
  

 

[panel days and times are from the ALA program draft]

 

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 the link to “2010 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.

Thank you.

Please join us!

Note from the ALA website: “The American Literature Association’s 21st annual conference will meet at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco in  Embarcadero Center on May 27-30, 2010 (Thursday through Sunday of Memorial Day weekend).  The deadline for all proposals is January 30, 2010. For further information, please consult the ALA website at www.americanliterature.org or contact the conference director, Professor Alfred Bendixen  of Texas A & M University at abendixen@tamu.edu with specific questions.”