Frank Shuffelton
University of Rochester
Department of English
RC BOX 270451
Rochester, NY 14627-0451
fcsh@troi.cc.rochester.edu
Education:
B.A., cum laude, Harvard University
M.A., Stanford University
Ph.D., Stanford University
Honors:
Mellon Faculty Fellow, 1977; NEH Senior Fellow, 1988-89.
Teaching:
Instructor, Stanford University, 1966-68
Instructor, University of Rochester, 1969-72
Assistant Professor, University of Rochester, 1972-77
Director of Freshman English, 1973-76
Associate Professor, University of Rochester, 1977-88
Director of Graduate Studies, 1981-86
Professor, University of Rochester, 1988-
Acting Chair, 1996-97
Director of College Writing, 1997-2000
Chair, 2003-
Professional Involvement:
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies; Clifford Prize Committee, 1994; 1997; Chair, 1998; Jenkins Prize Committee, Chair, 2001; Nominating Committee, 2004.
Early American Literature: Editorial Board, 1984-87; 1990-93
Early American Literary and Historical Manuscripts: Editorial Board, 1982-1992
Emerson Society
International Center for Jefferson Studies, Advisory Board, 2004-
Jefferson Legacy Foundation, Board of Directors, 2001-
Journal of the History of Ideas: Secretary, 1986-1992
Melville Society
Modern Language Association
American Literature Section; Chair, Foerster Award Committee, 1993; Nominating Committee, 1997-2000 (Chair, 1999).
Division on American Literature to 1800, Executive Board, 1994-1998, Secretary 1996, Chair 1997, 1998.
Northeast American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Secretary-Treasurer, 1976-1984; Vice-President, 1993-94; President, 1994-95
Northeast Modern Language Association
Colonial and Federal American Literature Section: Secretary, 1987-88, Chair, 1988-89
Omohundro Institute for Early American History and Culture
Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, Editorial Board, 1987-89
Society for Eighteenth-Century American Studies: Vice-President, 1996-7; President, 1997-99.
Society for Early American Authors
Society for Historians of the Early American Republic
Thoreau Society
Bibliography:
Books:
Thomas Hooker, 1586-1647. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1977.
Thomas Jefferson: A Comprehensive Annotated Bibliography of Writings About Him, 1826-1980. New York: Garland Publishing, 1983. Site on the World Wide Web at http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/jefferson/jefbib.html
Thomas Jefferson, 1981-1990: A Comprehensive Critical Bibliography. New York: Garland Publishing, 1992. Also on the preceding web site sponsored by the University of Virginia Electronic Text Center
ed. A Mixed Race: Ethnicity in Early America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.
ed. The American Enlightenment. Library of the History of Ideas. Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 1993.
ed. Notes on the State of Virginia by Thomas Jefferson. New York: Penguin, 1999.
ed. The Letters of John and Abigail Adams. New York: Penguin, 2003.
Articles:
"Thomas Prince and His Edition of Thomas Hooker's Poor Doubting Christian." Early American Literature. 5(1971), 68-75.
"An Imperial Flower: Dunbar's The Goldyn Targe and the Court Life of James IV of Scotland." Studies in Philology. 82(1975), 193-207.
"Indian Devils and Pilgrim Fathers: Squanto, Hobomok, and the English Conception of Indian Religion." New England Quarterly. 49(1976), 108-116.
"Bound to Rise--But Not Too Far: Horatio Alger and the Dream of Security." Illinois Quarterly. Fall, 1976. 51-64. Reprinted: The Newsboy, 16(March, 1978), 5-8.; Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, ed. Laurie L. Harris and Emily B. Tennyson. Detroit: Gale Research, 1985. Vol. 8, 39-41.
"The Voice of History: Thomas Godfrey's Prince of Parthia and Revolutionary America." Early American Literature. 13(1978), 12-23.
"Young Goodman Brown in the Anxious Seat: Nathaniel Hawthorne and the Revival Movement." American Transcendental Quarterly. Fall 1979. 310-23.
"`Philosophic Solitude' and the Pastoral Politics of William Livingston." Early American Literature. 17(1982), 43-53.
"Being Bicentennial: A Review Essay." Eighteenth-Century Studies. 16(1983), 415-26.
"Through the Long Vaticans: Melville's `Extracts' in Moby-Dick." Texas Studies in Language and Literature. 25(1983), 528-40.
"Margaret Fuller at the Greene-Street School: The Journal of Evelina Metcalf." Studies in the American Renaisssance, 1985. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1985. 29-46.
"Hannah Webster Foster's Coquette and the End of the Brotherly Watch." Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture. 16 (1986), 211-24.
"Thomas Jefferson: A Bibliographic Essay," in Thomas Jefferson: A Reference Biography, ed. Merrill D. Peterson. New York: Scribners, 1986. 453-79.
"Thomas Jefferson: Travelling in the Republic of Letters," in Voyage et tourisme en Bourgogne a l'epoque de Jefferson, reunis par Michel Baridon et Bernard Chevignard. Publications de l'University de Bourgogne no. LXVI, Dijon, 1988. 1-16.
"The Discourse of Modernism in the Age of Jefferson." Prospects. 15(1990), 23-37.
"In Different Voices: Gender in the American Republic of Letters," Early American Literature. 25(1990), 289-304.
"From Jefferson to Thoreau: The Possibilities of Discourse." Arizona Quarterly. 46(1990), 1-17.
"Privation and Fulfillment: The Ordering of Early New England: A Review Essay." Early American Literature. 25(1990), 200-207.
"Roger Williams and the Culture of Letters." Resources for American Literary Study. 17(1991), 265-71.
"Jefferson: Conscience v. Church." Humanities. 14(March/April, 1993), 17-19.
"Thomas Jefferson: Race, Culture, and the Failure of Anthropological Method" in A Mixed Race: Ethnicity in Early America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. 257-77.
"Anne Bradstreet's `Contemplations,' Gardens, and the Art of Memory." Studies in Puritan American Spirituality. 4(1993), 25-43.
"Endangered History: Character and Narrative in Early American Historical Writing." The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 34(1993), 221-42.
"Being Definitive: Jefferson Biography Under the Shadow of Dumas Malone." Biography 18(1995), 291-304.
"Circumstantial Accounts, Dangerous Arts: Recognizing African-American Culture in Travelers' Narratives." Eighteenth-Century Studies 27(1994), 589-605.
"Presenting Jefferson: A Review Essay." Early American Literature 30(1995), 275-85.
“Phillis Wheatley, the Aesthetic, and the Form of Life.” Studies in Eightenth-Century Culture. 26(1998), 73-85.
“Ties That Bind? Authority, the Family, and the Public Sphere in Jefferson’s Correspondence,” in James C. Gilreath, ed. Thomas Jefferson and Education of a Citizen. Washington: Library of Congress, 1999. 28-47.
“Emerson’s Politics of Biography and History” in Emersonian Circles: Essays in Honor of Joel Myerson, ed. Wesley T. Mott and Robert E. Burkholder. Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 1996, 53-66.
“Power, Desire, and American Cultural Studies,” Early American Literature 34(1999), 94-101.
“The American Enlightenment and Endless Emancipation,” in Teaching Early American Literature, ed. Carla Mulford. New York: Modern Language Association, 1999. 155-69.
“A Continental Poetics: Scientific Publishing and Scientific Society in Eighteenth-Century America” in Finding Colonial Americas: Essays Honoring J. A. Leo Lemay, ed. Carla Mulford and David Shields. Newark: Univ. of Delaware Press, 2001. 277-91.
“On Her Own Footing: Phillis Wheatley in Freedom” in Genius in Bondage, ed. Vincent Carretta and Philip Gould. Lexington: Univ. of Kentucky Press, 2001. 175-89.
“Writers and Editors: Preserving the Canon” in Transforming Ideas: Selected Profiles in University of Rochester Research and Scholarship, ed. Robert Kraus and Charles E. Phelps. Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2000. 56-65.
“Jefferson as President: A Bibliographic Essay” in The Election of 1800: Context and Implications for “A Rising Nation.” Ripton, VT: Jefferson Legacy Foundation, 2001. 26-31.
“Juries of the Common Reader: Crime and Judgment in the Novels of Charles Brockden Brown” in Charles Brockden Brown, ed. Philip Barnard, Mark Kamrath, Steven Shapiro. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2004. 88-114.
“Thomas Jefferson and the People’s Government,” Jefferson Legacy Foundation News and Comment 3(Winter, 2003), 1-2.
“Binding Ties: Thomas Jefferson, Francis Hopkinson, and the Representation of the Notes on the State of Virginia” in Periodical Literature in Eighteenth-Century America, ed. Mark L. Kamrath and Sharon M. Harris. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2005. 227-54.
“Thomas Jefferson and the People’s Government,” Journal of Contemporary Thought 19/20(Summer & Winter, 2005), 5-22.
“Jefferson’s Enlightened Explorers, Lewis and Clark” in Thomas Jefferson et l’Ouest: L’Expédition de Lewis et Clark, ed. Pierre Lagayette. Paris: Ellipses, 2005. 21-30.
“Arts, Culture, and Intellectual Life” in Colonial America: An Encyclopedia of Social, Political, Cultural, and Economic History, ed. James Ciment. Armonk, NY: M.E.Sharpe, 2006. 3-13.
Reference Works, Encyclopedia Entries, etc.:
"John Daly Burk," in American Writers Before 1800, ed. Levernier and Wilmes. Westport: Greenwood, 1983. 237-39.
"Thomas Hooker," in American Writers Before 1800, ed. Levernier and Wilmes. Westport: Greenwood, 1983. 769-71.
"William Livingston," in American Writers Before 1800, ed. Levernier and Wilmes. Westport: Greenwood, 1983. 904-05.
"William Munford," in American Writers Before 1800, ed. Levernier and Wilmes. Westport: Greenwood, 1983. 1064-65.
"William Bradford," American Colonial Writers: 1607-1734, ed. Elliott. Detroit: Gale Research, 1984. 19-28.
"Cadwallader Colden," American Colonial Writers: 1607-1734, ed. Elliott. Detroit: Gale Research, 1984. 63-66.
"Philip Pain," American Colonial Writers: 1607-1734, ed. Elliott. Detroit: Gale Research, 1984. 243-45.
"Thomas Godfrey," American Colonial Writers: 1735-1781, ed. Elliott. Detroit: Gale Research, 1984. 90-95.
"Mercy Otis Warren," American Colonial Writers: 1735-1781, ed. Elliott. Detroit: Gale Research, 1984. 246-52.
"John Daly Burk," American Colonial Writers of the Early Republic, ed. Elliott. Detroit: Gale Research, 1985. 86-89.
"Thomas Hooker," The Encyclopedia of Religion, ed. Mircea Eliade. New York: Macmillan, 1987. Vol. 6, 458-59.
"Isaiah Thomas," Dictionary of Literary Biography. Vol. 49, ed. Dzwonkoski. Detroit: Gale Research, 1986, 469-71.
"Mathew Carey, Carey & Lea, Carey, Lea & Blanchard," Dictionary of Literary Biography. Vol. 49, ed. Dzwonkoski. Detroit: Gale Research, 1986. 72-80.
"Thomas Hooker," in Book of Days 1987, ed. Clifford Johnson. Ann Arbor: Pierian Press, 1986. 351-52.
"Thomas Jefferson," in Book of Days 1988. Ann Arbor: Pierian Press, 1988. 211-13.
"Thomas Jefferson 1743-1826," in The Heath Anthology of American Literature, ed. Paul Lauter, et. al. Lexington, MA: D. C. Heath, 1990. Vol. I, 957-60. Revised 1993.
"Daniel Pierce Thompson," forthcoming in Bibliography of United States Literature, ed. Ljunquist and Myerson.
"Sally Hemings," in Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia, ed. Darlene Clark Hine, et. al. New York: Carlson Publishing, 1993, 554-55; rpt. Forthcoming in The Facts on File Resource Collection on Black Women.
"Nathaniel Evans" in American National Biography. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. vol. 7, 616-17.
"Thomas Godfrey" in American National Biography. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. vol. 9, 150-51.
"Thomas Hooker" in American National Biography. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. vol 11, 137-38.
"John Adams 1735-1826, Abigail Adams 1744-1818," in The Heath Anthology of American Literature, ed. Paul Lauter, et. al. Lexington, MA: D. C. Heath, 1993. Vol I, 873-74. [Co-authored with Albert Furtwangler.]
"Samuel Stone" in American National Biography. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. vol. 20, 869-70.
"Jacob Böhme" in Encyclopedia of Transcendentalism, ed. Wesley T. Mott. Westport CT: Greenwood, 1996. 17-18.
"Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon" in Encyclopedia of Transcendentalism, ed. Wesley T. Mott. Westport CT: Greenwood, 1996. 25-26.
"Joseph Marie de Gèrando" in Biographical Dictionary of Transcendentalism, ed. Wesley T. Mott. Westport CT: Greenwood, 1996. 111-12.
"Madame de Stael" in Encyclopedia of Transcendentalism, ed. Wesley T. Mott. Westport CT: Greenwood, 1996. 207-09.
"Conversation" in Encyclopedia of Transcendentalism, ed. Wesley T. Mott. Westport CT: Greenwood, 1996. 42-44.
"Travel Writing and the Literature of Travel" in Encyclopedia of Transcendentalism, ed. Wesley T. Mott. Westport CT: Greenwood, 1996. 229-31.
“Deism” in Encyclopedia of the New American Nation, ed. Paul Finkelman. NY: Scribners, Forthcoming.
Reviews:
American Literature: Tradition and Innovation, I. Early American Literature, ed. Harrison T. Meserole, Walter Sutton, Brom Weber; The Literature of America: Colonial Period, ed. Larzer Ziff. Early American Literature. 7(1972), 93-94.
The Puritan Origins of the American Self, Sacvan Bercovitch; The Confidence Game in American Literature, Warwick Wadlington. Kritikon Litterarum. 5(1976), 194-96.
Thomas Hooker: Writings in England and Holland, 1626-1633, ed. George H. Williams, Norman Pettit, Winfried Herget, Sargent Bush, Jr. Early American Literature. 12(1977), 88-90.
A Bicentennial Edition of Thomas Godfrey's Prince of Parthia, A Tragedy (1765), ed. William E. McCarron. Early American Literature. 12 (1977), 90.
Richard Mather of Dorchester, B. R. Burg. Virginia Seminary Journal. January, 1980. 40-41.
The Millenarian Piety of Roger Williams, W. Clark Gilpin. Early American Literature. 16 (1981), 96-97.
Horatio Alger, Jr., Gary Scharnhorst. American Literary Realism. 14 (1981), 148-49.
The American Jeremiad, Sacvan Bercovitch. Eighteenth- Century Studies. 15 (1982), 232-36.
Captain Cook's Second Voyage, John Elliott and Richard Pickersgill. The Eighteenth-Century: A Current Bibliography (ECCB). 12(1986), 72.
Thomas Jefferson's Extracts from the Gospels, ed. Dickinson W. Adams. Early American Literature. 19 (1985), 304-07.
The Radical Politics of Thomas Jefferson, Richard Matthews. Eighteenth-Century Studies. 20 (1987), 265-67.
In Pursuit of Reason: The Life of Thomas Jefferson, Noble E. Cunningham. Early American Literature. 23 (1988), 217-19.
Early Cooper and His Audience, James D. Wallace. ECCB. 12(1986), 387.
The Influence of Rhetoric in the Shaping of Great Britain, Robert T. Oliver. ECCB. 12(1986), 359.
Essays on Puritans and Puritanism, Leon Howard. Early American Literature. 24 (1989), 75-77.
Puritan Legacies: Paradise Lost and the New England Tradition, 1630-1890, Keith W. F. Stavely. ECCB. 13(1987), 357-58.
Jonathan Edwards and the American Experience, Nathan Hatch and Harry Stout. ECCB. 14(1988), 314-15.
The Poems of Michael Wigglesworth, ed. Ronald Bosco. ECCB 15(1989), 273.
Poetry and Ideology in Revolutionary Connecticut, William C. Dowling. American Literature. 64(1992), 156-57.
Letters of the Republic, Michael Warner. Early American Literature. 27(1992), 222-26.
Imagining Language in America: From the Revolution to the Civil War, Michael P. Kramer. American Literature 65(1993), 576-77.
The Radicalism of the American Revolution, Gordon Wood. Eighteenth-Century Studies. 26(1993), 687-92.
Pillars of Salt, Monuments of Grace: New England Crime Literature and the Origins of American Popular Culture, 1674-1860, Daniel A. Cohen. American Literature. 66(1994), 367-68.
Thomas Jefferson, Willard Sterne Randall. William and Mary Quarterly. 51(1994), 824-826.
Italian Signs, American Streets; The Evolution of Italian American Narrative, Fred L. Gardaphé. American Literature 69(1997), 243-44.
Sworn On the Altar of God: A Religious Biography of Thomas Jefferson, Edwin S. Gaustad. Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly 21(1998), 90-92.
The Radical Enlightenments of Benjamin Franklin, Douglas Anderson. Early American Literature, 34(1999), 113-15.
Shadrach Minkins: From Fugitive Slave to Citizen, Gary Collison. Emerson Society Papers 11(Spring, 2000), 6.
Literary Federalism in the Age of Jefferson, William C. Dowling. Resources for American Literary Study, 27(2001), 288-91.
Thomas Jefferson and the Politics of Nature, ed. Thomas S. Engeman. H-Net Reviews, H-SHEAR (October, 2001). http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/reviews
The Commonplace Book of William Byrd II of Westover, eds. Kevin Berland, Jan Kirsten Gilliam, Kenneth A. Lockridge. The East-Central Intelligencer 16(January 2002), 31-34.
Fragments of Union: Making Connections in Scottish and American Writing. Susan Manning. Early American Literature 39(2004), 201-07.
Other:
Edited and/or wrote the first twenty-two numbers of the Northeast American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Newsletter, 1977-1985.
“Thomas Jefferson: Annotated Bibliography for 1991-2000 and Before,” on-line at https://urresearch.rochester.edu/handle/1802/2177 and also at http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/jefferson/jefbib.html
“Selected Bibliography: Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826),” on-line at http://c18.rutgers.edu/biblio/jefferson.html
Presentations and Panels:
December, 1976, Williamsburg. NEH Conference on the Bicentennial of the American Revolution. "Revolutionary Drama."
October, 1979, Toronto. NEASECS Conference. "The Pastoral Politics of William Livingston."
December, 1981, New York. MLA: Melville Society. "Melville's `Extracts' in Moby-Dick."
April, 1982, Washington. ASECS meeting. Organized and chaired panel on "Intellectual Groups in Early America."
March, 1983, Toronto. Popular Culture Society. "Bradford's Rogues and Con-men."
October, 1983, Syracuse. NEASECS Conference. "Cadwallader Colden and the Republic of Letters."
November, 1984, Providence. NEASECS Conference. "Mrs. Foster's Coquette and the End of the Brotherly Watch."
December, 1984, Washington. MLA: Division on Comparative Studies in the Eighteenth Century. "Brockden Brown's Criminals."
September, 1985, Utica. NEASECS Conference. Organized and chaired panel on "Popular Modes in American Literature of the Eighteenth Century."
March, 1986, Williamsburg. ASECS meeting. Organized and chaired panel on "Letters in Early America."
April, 1986, New Brunswick. NEMLA meeting. "Popular Drama and Revolutionary Aspirations."
May, 1986, Hartford. Connecticut Historical Society. "Thomas Hooker and Connecticut Possibilities."
October, 1986, Philadelphia. NEASECS Conference. "Thomas Jefferson, Francis Hopkinson, and the Representation of the Notes on the State of Virginia."
March, 1987, Dijon, France. Universite de Bourgogne Conference on Traveling in Burgundy in the Age of Jefferson. "Traveling in the Republic of Letters."
September, 1987, Kingston, Ontario. NEASECS Conference. "The Young Jefferson: Voice and Authority."
December, 1987, San Francisco. MLA: Early American Literature Section. "In Different Voices: Gender in the Republic of Letters."
March, 1988, Providence. NEMLA. Organized and chaired panel on "The Representation of Ethnicity in Early America."
October, 1988, Allentown. NEASECS. "Thomas Jefferson: Race, Culture, and the Failure of Anthropological Method."
December, 1988, New Orleans. MLA: Early American Literature Section. "Modernism in the Age of Jefferson."
April, 1989, Wilmington, Delaware. NEMLA. "Jeffersonian Thoreau."
September, 1989, Worcester. NEASECS. "Jefferson, Madison, Hamilton, and the Reoccupation of the American Revolution."
November, 1989, Toronto. American Studies Association meeting. Organized and chaired panel on "Ethnicity in Early America."
April, 1990. Minneapolis. ASECS. "Character and Narrative in Eighteenth-Century American Historical Writing.
November, 1990. Amherst, Massachusetts. NEASECS. "Politics and Style in the New Republic: Jefferson and Hamilton."
May, 1991. Washington, D.C. American Literature Association. "Emerson's Politics of History and Biography."
September, 1991. Syracuse, N.Y. LeMoyne Forum on Religion and Literature: The Margins of Orthodoxy: Heterodox Writing and Cultural Response, 1660-1800. "Jefferson and the Pursuit of Happiness."
November, 1991. Burlington, Vt. NEASECS. "Brockden Brown's Alien and Enlightened Criminals."
November, 1991. Baltimore, Md. American Studies Association. "Juries of the Common Reader: Crime and Judgment in Brockden Brown."
December, 1991. San Francisco. MLA. "Anne Bradstreet's `Contemplations,' Gardens, and the Art of Memory."
March, 1992. Seattle. ASECS. "Jefferson Biography Under the Shadow of Dumas Malone."
March, 1992. Seattle. ASECS. Organized and chaired panel on Thomas Paine's Rights of Man and Revolutions.
October, 1992. Stony Brook, NY. NEASECS. "Jefferson's Political Religion."
April, 1993. Providence, RI. ASECS. "Mysterious Obligations: The Public Sphere, Public Opinion, and Notes on the State of Virginia."
May, 1993. Washington, D.C. Library of Congress. "Binding Ties: The Public and Domestic Spheres in Jefferson's Letters to His Family."
July, 1993. Chapel Hill. SHEAR. Invited Commentator, "Thomas Jefferson: Self-Expression and Self-Conception."
March, 1994. Charleston, SC. ASECS. "Dangerous Art: Traveler's Recognitions of African-American Culture."
June, 1994. San Diego. American Literature Association. Chair, Seminar on Teaching Mary Rowlandson.
October, 1994. New York. NEASECS. "Phillis Wheatley and the Public Sphere."
October, 1994. Pennsylvania State University. ECASECS. "Nature's Nation, Nature's Empire: Science and the Public Sphere in Eighteenth-Century America."
April, 1995. Tucson. ASECS. "Power, Desire, and American Cultural Studies." Also, organized and chaired session on "Crèvecoeur in the Contact Zone: Observations on Manners-and-Customs."
Baltimore, 1995. American Literature Association. "Phillis Wheatley, the Aesthetic, and the Form of Life."
Ann Arbor, 1995. Institute of Early American History and Culture. Invited Commentator on Session on "The Literature of Experience in Late Eighteenth-Century America."
Monticello, 1995. International Center for Jefferson Studies. "Jefferson Scholarship in the 1990s."
Pittsburgh, 1995. American Studies Association. Invited Commentator on session on Puritans and Indians.
Tallahassee, 1996. Southeast American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. “Mary Rowlandson: History, Discourse, and Narrating Captivity.”
Austin, TX. 1996. American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. “A Continental Poetics: Scientific Periodicals and Scientific Society in Eighteenth-Century America.”
Worcester, MA, 1996. Northeast American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Organized and chaired session, “Writing Home: The Language of Family in Early America.”
Nashville, TN, 1997. American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Organized and chaired session, “Opening Society: Religious Freedom in the Eighteenth Century.”
Washington, D.C., 1997. American Studies Association. “Submerged by Revolution: Phillis Wheatley in Freedom.”
Toronto, 1997. Modern Language Association. Organized and chaired sessions on “Writing Travel in Early America” and “Writing Cultural Conflict in Early America.”
Atlanta, 1998. Southeastern Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. “Jefferson’s Notes as Hypertext.”
South Bend, 1998. American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Organized and chaired session on “Religious Rebebellions, Upheavals, and Renewals in Eighteenth-Century America.”
San Diego, 1998. American Literature Association. “Notes on the State of Virginia: The West and the National Idea.”
San Diego, 1998. American Literature Association. “Power, Desire, and American Cultural Studies.”
Newport, RI, 1998. Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies. “Melancholy and the Constitution of the Federalist Ego: Loss and Repression in the Early American Novel.”
San Francisco, CA, 1998. Modern Language Association. Organized and chaired session on “The Discourse of Science in Early America.”
Charleston, SC, 1999. Society of Early Americanists. Organized and chaired two sessions on Scientific Writing in Early America; invited commentator for session on Annette Kolodny’s, Failing the Future: A Dean Looks at Education in the Twenty-First Century.
Milwaukee, WI, 1999. American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. “Jefferson in Paris: Testing the Limits of Epicurus.”
Uxbridge, UK (Brunel University), 1999. British Society of Early American Historians. “Phillis Wheatley in Freedom.”
Chautauqua, 1999. “Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation.”
Chicago, 1999. Modern Language Association. Panelist, “Teaching the Literatures of Early America.”
Burlington, VT, 2000. Ethan Allen Institute, Jefferson Day Dinner. “Jefferson and the American National Understanding.”
Philadelphia, 2000. American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Organized and chaired session, “Was There a Revolution of 1800? Thomas Jefferson and the Election of 1800.”
Norfolk, 2001. Society of Early Americanists. Organized and chaired session, “Textual Apparatuses of Early American Elections.”
New Orleans, 2001. American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Chaired session on “Secrets and Lies in Post-Revolutionary America.”
Cape May, NJ, 2001. East Central American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. “Thomas Jefferson, Historian.”
New Orleans, 2001. Modern Language Association. Organized and chaired session, “Civic Discourse,” sponsored by Division on American Literature Before 1800.
Colorado Springs, 2002. American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, “Melancholy and the Constitution of the Federalist Ego.”
Charlottesville, 2002. “New Frontiers of Early American Literature” (Sponsored by the Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library), “Jefferson’s Notes, Hypertext, and Revolutionary Modernity.”
Chimney Point, VT/ Windsor, VT, 2002. “Thomas Jefferson and the People’s Government.” (Sponsored by the Vermont Council on the Humanities and the Jefferson Legacy Foundation).
Philadelphia, 2002. East Central Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. “Performing Travel in Dr. Alexander Hamilton’s Itinerarium.”
Houston, 2002. American Studies Association. Chaired session, “The Politics of Death.”
Providence, 2003. Society of Early Americanists. “Uncertain Identities: Loyalty and Identity in the American Revolution.”
Shreveport, LA, 2003. International Lincoln Center conference on “Thomas Jefferson: His Life, Times, and Legacy.” “Educational Democracy.”
Boston, 2004. American Society for Eighteeenth-Century Studies. “’Vile Prophanations of Prosperity’: Print and the Public Sphere in 1704 Boston.”
Providence, 2004. Beyond Colonialisms conference: “Enlightenments: Thomas Jefferson’s Library and South America.”
Charlottesville, 2005. Thomas Jefferson and the Founding Fathers in Retirement Conference: “Thomas Jefferson, Historian.”
New Bedford, 2005. Frederick Douglass & Herman Melville: A Sesquicentennial Celebration. Chaired session, “Revolution, Religion, and Reform.”
Montreal, 2006. American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. “Philip Freneau in the Tropics.”
Selected University Service:
College: Administrative Committee (Chair), Bookstore Advisory Committee , Curriculum Committee, Faculty Council, Ad Hoc Committee to Review the Freshman Year (co-chair), Graduate Committee, Committee on Interdepartmental Programs, College Writing Committee (chair). University: Academic Honesty Committee, Academic Advisory Committee, Committee on Tenure and Privileges (Chair), Faculty Senate, Graduate Council.
Selected Courses Taught:
Undergraduate courses: Introduction to American Literature, Early American Literature, The American Renaissance, Melville, American Naturalists and Realists, American Lyric Poem, Autobiography, Ethnicity and Fiction in America, Ethnic Autobiography, Maxine Hong Kingston in Context, Thomas Jefferson and His Times, Asian-American Literature; Poe, Hawthorne, Melville; Native American Representations. Graduate seminars: Race and Ethnicity in American Writing before 1860, American Women Writers before 1860, Revolutionary Modernism in the Early Republic, Major Writers: Edward Taylor, Emerson, and Whitman, Transcendentalism and the Language of Reform, Sentiment and Violence in Antebellum American Fiction, Taylor, Whitman, and Dickinson, Origins of the American Novel; Composition Pedagogy.
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