Music — Hilltop Players

Friday, June 11

8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.   Scholars Choice Exhibit

Session A — Hawthorne Thriving at The Old Manse — Heritage Rounds
Chair: Sam Coale, Wheaton College

Charles Baraw, Southern Connecticut State University: “Romancing the Reader: Hawthorne as Tour-Guide at 'The Old Manse'”

Sandra Hughes, Western Kentucky University: “But, to Return from This Digression:  Hawthorne’s Use of History in 'The Old Manse'”

Kathleen Orley Marron, Bar Ilabn University, Israel: “Eden and the Re-Creation of the Artist”

SESSION B — Hawthorne and Others I — Middlesex Theater
Chair: Richard Kopley, Penn State DuBois

Karen English, San Jose State University: “Nathaniel Hawthorne as Bronson Alcott’s Coy Maiden”

Debbie Lopez, University of Texas, San Antonio: “Keats, Hawthorne, Lamia, and Lilith”

Yuji Kato, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies: “Would that be all excellent books were foundlings’: Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne in ‘Hawthorne and His Mosses,’ Moby-Dick, and Other Texts”

Coffee and Pastries at Heritage Rounds

SESSION A — Hawthorne Struggling at The Old Manse — Heritage Rounds
Chair: David Greven, Connecticut College

Rita Gollin: “Hawthorne’s Finances at the Old Manse after Brook Farm”

Robert Milder, Washington University: “’The Dimmest of All Shadows’: A Counter-Reading of Hawthorne at the Old Manse”

Mark Dunphy, Lindsey Wilson College: “Ectoplasmatic Poetics: Spirit-Hunting with Hawthorne through the Edens of The Old Manse, The Custom-House, The Wayside, and Heaven”

SESSION B — Hawthorne and Others II — Middlesex Theater
Chair: Leland S. Person, University of Cincinnati

Steven Petersheim, Baylor University: “Societal and Cultural Hegemonies: Hawthorne’s Expanding Sense of the Other”

Stephen Rachman, Michigan State University: “Mr. Thoreau: Hawthorne’s Thoreau, Thoreau’s Hawthorne”

Rob Velella: “Hawthorne and Holmes: Elsie Venner and the Nature of Evil”

SESSION A — The Blithedale Romance I — Heritage Rounds
Chair: Wesley McMasters, Penn State DuBois

Richard Kopley, Penn State DuBois: “Poe at Blithedale”

Robert Wilson, Cedar Crest College: “Dusting in Eden:  Blithedale, Domestic Labor, and the Economics of Women”

Christopher Allan Black, Oklahoma State University: “Panopticism and the Penitentiary: Antebellum Prison Reform in The Blithedale Romance”

SESSION B — Chiefly About War Matters — Middlesex Theater
Chair: Barbara Cantalupo, Penn State Lehigh Valley

James Hewitson, University of Tennessee: “'Chiefly About War Matters’: Hawthorne’s Last Apocalypse”

Katherine Henry, Temple University: “Civil War as Gothic Romance:  ‘Chiefly About War Matters’ and the Problems of Treasonous Speech”

David Klooster, Hope College: “’Chiefly About War Matters’ and the Agenda for the Post-Conflict Writer”

SESSION A — The Blithedale Romance II — Thoreau Theater
Chair: Carla Chwat, Georgia State University

Jeffrey Pusch, University of Southern Mississippi: “’Morality of the Performance’: Nineteenth-Century Melodrama in Hawthorne’s The Blithedale Romance”

Atsuko Oda, Mie University, Japan: “The Dismal Mask of a Transcendentalist Artist in The Blithedale Romance”

Chrissie Battista, Binghamton University: “Ecology, Imperial Masculinities, and the Feminist Imaginary: An Ecocritical Exploration of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Blithedale Romance”

SESSION B — The Scarlet Letter — Alcott Theater
Chair: Kristie G. Hamilton, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Carla M. Rineer, Millersville University: “’Begotten in Whoredom’: ‘Impenitent Sinners,’ ‘Spurious Children,’ and Hawthorne’s Hester Prynne”

Deanna Rohr, University of Albany: “The Literal Logos in The Scarlet Letter”

Hiroko Washizu, University of Tsukuba, Japan: “Soil and Dust:  Engraving of The Scarlet Letter”

SESSION C — Hawthorne and Feminism — Middlesex Theater
Chair:  Deanna Rohr, University of Louisiana at Monroe

Yoo-kyeong Won, Semyung University, Korea: “Hawthorne and Hester: Reading The Scarlet Letter from a Feminist Perspective”

Donna A. Rhorer, University of Louisiana at Monroe: “Hawthorne’s Eyes in Eden Regained, Disguised, Restored, and Ruined”

Margaret Finn, Temple University: “Hawthorne at Home in Concord: Recreating the Private Sphere, Carving the Family Lacunae”

4:45                   

Tours of Concord Sites, such as The Wayside, The Orchard House, Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, the Old Manse, and Emerson’s House. There will be sign-up sheets and detailed information at the registration desk.

Dinner on Your Own

Saturday, June 12

8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.            Scholars Choice Exhibit

SESSION A — Mosses I — Heritage Rounds
Chair: Emily Kopley, Stanford University

Lesley Ginsberg, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs: “Hawthorne and Concord’s Culture of Pedagogy”

Ivonne Garcia, Kenyon College: “’The Eden of the Present World?’: Colonial Anxiety and the American Family in ‘Rappaccini’s Daughter’”

Susan Williams, Ohio State University: “Genius, Nation and Territorial Expansion in Hawthorne’s ‘A Select Party’”

SESSION B — Hawthorne and Women Writers — Middlesex Theater
Chair:  Valerie Czerny, East Georgia College at Statesboro

Tracey A. Cummings, Lock Haven University: “Hawthorne’s Influence:  Nathaniel Hawthorne and Louisa May Alcott”

Carole Shaffer-Koros, Kean University: “Hawthorne and Sarah Orne Jewett: A ‘Scribbling Woman’ Takes Revenge?”

Kevin Plunkett, Merrimack College: “Rebecca Harding Davis at the Wayside: July 1862”

Coffee and Pastries at Heritage Rounds

SESSION A — Mosses II — Thoreau Theater
Chair:  Robert Milder, Washington University

Amber Shaw, University of Georgia: “’Inheritors of History’ from the Old Manse to the Custom House”

Masahiko Narita, Senshu University, Japan: “Hawthorne’s Manse Years and the Unburying of ‘Roger Malvin’ in Mosses from an Old Manse”

Mark Browning, Johnson County Community College: “Smooth-It-Away in the Slough of Despond: The Development of Hawthorne’s Mature Vision in ‘The Celestial Railroad’”

SESSION B — The Hawthorne Family and Slavery — Middlesex Theater
Chair: Tom Mitchell, Texas A&M International University

Patricia Dunlavy Valenti, University of North Carolina at Pembroke: “Sophia Hawthorne’s Civil War”

Rita Williams, University of Delaware: “Border Crossing:  Sophia Peabody Hawthorne and Mary Peabody Mann Debate Slavery”

Marc Napolitano, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: “Hawthorne and Pierce”

SESSION A — Mosses III — Thoreau Theater
Chair: Jason Courtmanche, University of Connecticut

Sam Coale, Wheaton College: “Hawthorne’s Concord: Staging Places” 

Thomas Mitchell,  Texas A&M International University: "'The Birth-mark': Hawthorne's Abortion Fantasy"

SESSION B — Transcendentalism, Narcissism — Alcott Theater
Chair: Magnus Ulln, Karlstad University, Sweden

Jonathan Murphy, University of Western Ontario: “Hawthorne in Concord: From ‘Fire Worship’ to ‘Chiefly About War Matters’”

David Greven, Connecticut College: “Rereading Narcissism:  Hawthorne, Freud, and Male Homosexuality”

Nancy Bunge, Michigan State University: “Hawthorne’s Writing Advice:  Story Tellers and Poets in Hawthorne’s Tales”

SESSION A — Mosses IV — Thoreau Theater
Chair: Steven Rogers

David Cody, Hartwick College: “’Modes of Iniquity’: Hawthorne and the Destruction of the Past”

Greg Stone, University of Tulsa: “Hawthorne and the Loss of Native American Culture”

Edward Wesp, Western New England College: “’The Virtuoso’s Collection’: Satire and the Virtues of Literature”

SESSION B — Short Fiction — Alcott Theater
Chair: Paul Elwork, author of The Tea House

Leland S. Person, University of Cincinnati: “’Mr. Higginbotham’s Catastrophe’ and Other Tales”

John Henry Adams, University of Cincinnati: “’The Fiend In His Own Shape’: Disruptive Witch-Hunting in Hawthorne’s Short Fiction”

Barbara Cantalupo, Penn State Lehigh Valley:  “Valuing Comfort and Commonplace:  Another Look at Hawthorne’s ‘Moderate Share of the Labors of Life’”

SESSION C — Hawthorne and Authorship/Identity — Middlesex Theater
Chair: Melinda Ponder, Pine Manor College

Magnus Ulln, Karlstad University, Sweden: “Pshaw! Authorship in Progress in Dr. Grimshawe’s Secret”

Kohei Furuya, Texas A&M University: “’The Snake-Like Doubt That Thrusts Out Its Head’: The Dilemma of History in ‘The Elixir of Life’ Manuscripts”

Tour of Concord Sites, such as The Wayside, The Orchard House, Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, the Old Manse, and Emerson’s House. There will be sign-up sheets and detailed information at the registration desk. There will be limited spaces available.

4:45-6:30              

Sunday, June 13

SESSION A — The Hawthornes and Europe — Thoreau Theater
Chair: Mark Dunphy, Lindsey Wilson College

Mollie Barnes, University of Georgia: “Rome, Concord, and The Art of ‘Momentary Circumstance’”

Julie Hall, Sam Houston State University: “The Politics of Production:  Sophia Hawthorne’s Notes in England and Italy”

SESSION B — Other Places, Other Rooms — Middlesex Theater
Chair: James Hewitson, University of Tennessee

Steven Rogers: “A Mysterious Brilliancy”

Yongsung Kim, Sahmyook University, Korea: “Hawthorne at the Boston Custom House”

Thomas J. Otten, Boston University: “Stories about Walls”

SESSION C — Hawthorne in Concord — Alcott Theater
Chair: Jeffrey Pusch, University of Southern Mississippi

Xianmei Dai, Renmin University of China: “Reality versus Shadow:  Hawthorne’s Green Life in Concord”

Alex Shakespeare, Boston College: “Otherworldly Concord:  Memory and Forgetting in Hawthorne and Emerson”

Kristin Boudreau, Worcester Polytechnic Institute: “Missing on War from the Wayside”