in Theory and Practice
Philadelphia – March 18-20, 2010
Conference Papers
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Friday, March 19
Joseph Rezek (MCEAS)
“The Print Atlantic: Disseminating Wheatley’s Poems and Sancho’s Letters” (PDF - images included)
Meredith L. McGill (Rutgers University)
“Forms of Address, Modes of Circulation: Frances Ellen Watkins Harper and the Circuits of Abolitionist Poetry” (PDF)
Joanna Brooks (San Diego State University)
“The Unfortunates: What Early Black Books Teach Us About the History of the Book in America” (PDF)
Eric Gardner (Saginaw Valley State University)
“Early African American Print Culture and the American West” (PDF)
Jeannine Marie DeLombard (University of Toronto)
“Beyond Black Virtue: Crime, Print, and African American Public Presence” (PDF)
Corey Capers (University of Illinois, Chicago)
“Black Voices/White Print: Racial Practice, Print Publicity and Order in the Early American Republic” (PDF)
Lloyd Pratt (Michigan State University)
“The Stranger and the City of New Orleans: Americanization, Racialization, and Literary Print Culture, 1830-1850” (PDF)
Susanna Ashton (Clemson University)
“Slavery, Imprinted: The Life and Narrative of William Grimes” (PDF)
Lara Langer Cohen (Wayne State University)
“Notes from the State of St. Domingo: The Practice of Citation in Clotel” (PDF)
Daniel Hack (University of Michigan)
“‘Can(n)on in Front of Them’: African American Deployments of ‘The Charge of the Light Brigade’” (PDF)
Holly Jackson (Skidmore College)
“Another Long Bridge: Reproduction and Repetition in Pauline Hopkins’s Hagar’s Daughter” (PDF)
Susan Gillman (University of California, Santa Cruz)
“Maladaptation: Uncle Tom’s Cabin in African American Print Culture” (PDF)
Saturday, March 20
Radiclani Clytus (Tufts University)
“‘Keep It Before the People’: Devotional Sentiment and the Pictorialization of American Slavery” (PDF)
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Jonathan William Senchyne (Cornell University)
“The Whiteness of the Page, orClotelat the Margin” (PDF - images included)
Dalila Scruggs (Harvard University)
“‘Photographs to Serve Our Purposes’: Shaping the Image of Liberia in Colonization Print Culture” (PDF)
Derrick R. Spires (Vanderbilt University)
“Imagining a Nation of Fellow Citizens: Early African American Politics of Publicity in the Black State Conventions” (PDF)
Tara Bynum (Towson State University)
“The Trope of the ‘Talking Book’ Reconsidered in John Marrant’s Narrative of the Lord’s Wonderful Dealings with John Marrant, A Black” (PDF)
Elizabeth Maddock Dillon (Northeastern University)
“John Marrant Blows the French Horn: Print, Performance, and Publics in Early African American Literature” (PDF)
