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SEDGWICK-RELATED EVENTS AT THE AMERICAN LITERATURE ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE
Friday May 24, 2013
2:10 –3:30
Session 11-D New Directions in Sedgwick Studies: A Roundtable (St George D 3rd Floor)
Organized by the Catharine Maria Sedgwick Society
Moderator: Lucinda L. Damon-Bach, Salem State University
- “Persuasive Strategies: The Rhetoric of Sedgwick’s Fictional Letters.” Rachel Pietka, Baylor
University - “Rereading Redwood: Generically ‘Hazardous’ Experimentation,” Jill Kirsten Anderson, Southern
Illinois University Edwardsville - “Sedgwick’s Tales and Sketches: Challenges and Opportunities of Building a Digital Collection,”
Deborah Gussman, Richard Stockton College - “An Ever-Growing Inventory: Searching for Sedgwick’s Letters,” Patricia Larson Kalayjian,
California State University, Dominguez Hills - “Transatlantic Sedgwick,“ Melissa J. Homestead, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Respondent: Ellen Foster, Clarion University, Venango
Please note: due to a scheduling error, CMSS will NOT be holding our business meeting scheduled with the Irving Society during session 11M. Please come to our panel, 11-D, instead. Officers and friends of the Society will meet for dinner on Friday night to discuss business, including our upcoming symposium. If you would like to join us for dinner–family and friends are welcome–please email Cindy Damon-Bach at ldamonbach@salemstate.edu (preferably by Wednesday, May 22nd) so we can add you to the reservation.
Sunday May 26
8:30-9:50 am
Session 21-F Civil Disobedience in Nineteenth-Century American Literature (St George C, 3rd Floor)
Organizer and Chair: Gretchen Martin, The University of Virginia’s College at Wise
- “‘Follow Your Leader’: Rebellion in Herman Melville’s Benito Cereno,” Kelly Richardson, Winthrop University
- “Pudd’nhead Wilson and the Discourse of Black Criminality,” Emahunn Campbell, The University of Massachusetts, Amherst
- “‘No, madam, I am an American’: Sedgwick’s and Child’s Female Patriots and American Heroines,” Autumn Lauzon, Middle Tennessee State University
