Pre-Conference Conversations

The digital turn has had an enormous effect on our ability to present manuscript documents, which predominate in the early period, as well a...

Native American oral literature has been commonly categorized as originating thousands of years ago as some kind of ancie...

At this conference, I will present a paper entitled “Backroads and the American South: Identity Creation, Region and Race in Popular Countr...

It’s been a challenge finding time to post during the first week of classes, and I’m sure this post’s lateness will not detract from its l...

Meredith McGill's American Literature and the Culture of Reprinting brought the widespread practice of textual reuse in the antebellum ...

    Our project, “Mapping the American West: Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches to Cooper’s Leatherstocking Tales, ” is conceptually i...

In true  PechaKucha  style, you have only 20 seconds to read this post.  Just kidding, I'm not actually timing you. My presentation is...