Schedule

Tentative Conference Schedule

Thursday, June 12
noon-6:00 p.m.	Registration throughout the day
4:30-6:30 p.m.	Opening reception with music at the Hawthorne-Longfellow Library
Friday, June 13
8:30-9:50 a.m.	A.  Hawthorne and Biography Buford Jones, Duke University, "Masterpiece Theater Act II: Hawthorne's Self-Fashioning from the Anonymous Year to the Great American Novel(ist)" Frederick Newberry, Duquesne University, "Early Hawthorne and His Biographers"   Sam Coale, Wheaton College, "Hawthorne as Early Icon: The Mystery of Silence" B.  Miscellany Lisa New, "The Fertility of Failure: Hester and Hepzibah"  John Ronan, University of Memphis, "Hawthorne's New Biblical Heart"
10:00-10:30	Coffee break
10:40 a.m.-noon	A.  Hawthorne's Friendships Andrew Higgins, SUNY New Paltz, "Hawthorne and Longfellow: The Story of a Literary Partnership" Steven B. Rogers, "Friendship, Admiration, and a Mysterious World: Jonathan Cilley and Nathaniel Hawthorne at Bowdoin College and Beyond" Carla Huskey Chwat, Georgia State University, "New Beginnings at Bowdoin-Nathaniel Hawthorne and Franklin Pierce: The Forging and Framing of a New Friendship" B.  Hawthorne's Children's Writing Patricia D. Valenti, University of North Carolina at Pembroke, "Hawthorne's Juvenile Literature: Texts and Contexts" Rita Williams, University of Delaware, "Figurations of Slavery in Grandfather's Chair: Bondage Palpable and Impalpable" John Idol, Professor emeritus at Clemson University, "New Life for a Hawthorne Classic: The Golden Touch"-with slides! C.  The Scarlet Letter Helen Gunn, Design Institute of San Diego, "Dark Ladies and Hawthorne's Midlife Crisis" Steven W. Thomas, College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University, "The Cultural Politics of Single Mothers and The Scarlet Letter Today"
12:00-1:30 p.m.	Lunch on your own
1:30-2:50	A.  Hawthorne and Nineteenth-Century History Edward Wesp, Western New England College, "Momentary Triumph and the Trudge of History: The Aesthetics of Hawthorne's 'Chiefly About War Matters'" Alex Wulff, "The (Im)possibility of Starting Over as the Impossibility of Insuring the Sublime:  Hawthorne's Critique of Reform and Nineteenth-Century America's Resistance to Life Insurance" Hsiu-Ling Lin, National Taiwan Normal University, "Nathaniel Hawthorne, Salem, and the China Trade" B.  Hawthorne and the Transcendentalists Larry Reynolds, Texas A&M University, "The 'Higher Law' and Hawthorne's New New Testament Reply" Richard Millington, Smith College, "Hawthorne and Thoreau: Deeper Leisure, 'Chiefly About War Matters,' and 'Baker Farm'" Debra A. Ryals, Pensacola Junior College, "Mesmerism in The House of the Seven Gables and in Louisa May Alcott's 'A Pair of Eyes'" C.  The House of the Seven Gables Robert Oscar Lopez, California State University, Northridge, "The Tripled Conundrum of Family, History, and Romance in The House of the Seven Gables"   Dana Medoro, University of Manitoba, "The Animal Department of Our Nature: The House of the Seven Gables, Ethnography, and the Origin of the Human Species" Robert Milder, Washington University, "Exorcising Salem"
3:10-4:30	A.  Hawthorne's Influences (Part 1) Jeffry Berry, Adrian College, "Hawthorne and Faulkner: New England and the New South" John Langan, SUNY New Paltz, "'A Theater of Infinite Tragedy and Woe': H. P. Lovecraft's (Re)Invention of Nathaniel Hawthorne"   Megan Swihart Jewell, Case Western Reserve University, "'A Twice-Told Title': Susan Howe's The Birth-mark and Nathaniel Hawthorne's Tactical Feminism" B.  Hawthorne and England Catherine Kunce and Joan Hall, University of Colorado, "The Tempest in a Sea Spot: The Braver Old World of Sexual Control in The Scarlet Letter" Debbie Lopez, University of Texas at San Antonio, "Keats, Hawthorne, Lamia, and Lilith" Julie Hall, Sam Houston State University, "A New Look at Hawthorne's Old Wales" C.  The Marble Faun David B. Diamond, Harvard Medical School, "'Yes, he loves me!': Mourning and Miriam's Transformation in The Marble Faun"   Chris Castiglia, Penn State, "Starting Over . . . Alone? The Marble Faun and the Aesthetics of Intimacy" Casey Pratt, Purdue University, "The Marble Faun and the New Reader"
5:00-7:00	Dinner on your own
8:00-9:30	Evening Event David Kesterson, "The Nathaniel Hawthorne Society: Our Old Home"
Saturday, June 14
8:30-9:50 a.m.	A.  Hawthorne's Influences (Part 2) Randy Laist, University of Connecticut, "Rappaccini's Children: The Legacy of Hawthorne in Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle, Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow, and DeLillo's White Noise" Mark Dunphy, Lindsey Wilson College, "In the Wake of Hawthorne's 'Wakefield': Breaking the Habit of Cohabitation and Ennui Redux in Daniel Stern's 'Wakefield' and Andrei Codrescu's Wakefield" David Klooster, Hope College, "Starting Over with 'Wakefield': Nathaniel Hawthorne and E. L. Doctorow" B.  Hawthorne and Gender David Van Leer, University of California, Davis, "With Respect to Nathaniel: Sexuality and Domesticity in Mid-Nineteenth-Century American Literature" Les Harrison, Virginia Commonwealth University, "Shadows More Attractive than the Original: Hawthorne, Gender, and Nineteenth-Century New Media" Donna A. Rhorer, University of Louisiana at Monroe, "Eve Actualized: Housework as Art in Hawthorne's Longer Fiction"
10:00-10:30	Coffee Break
10:40 a.m.-noon	A.  Hawthorne and Politics Nancy Sweet, California State University, Sacramento, "By the Wayside: Political Neutrality and Hawthorne's Tanglewood Tales" Robert Wilson, Cedar Crest College, "Jackson in Salem and Hawthorne's New Politics as a Storyteller" B.  Hawthorne and Manhood David Greven, Connecticut College, "Pining with Vain Desire: Hawthorne, Narcissism, and American Manhood" Leland Person, University of Cincinnati, "Marketing Manhood in the Pierce Biography" C.  Hawthorne and Nature Monika Elbert, Montclair State University, "Hawthorne, the New Frontier, or Why Dimmesdale Can't Go West" Hiroko Washizu, University of Tsukuba, "Celestial Hieroglyphics" Margaret Finn, Temple University, "Hawthorne in the Twenty-first Century: The Greening of Hawthorne"
noon-1:30 p.m.	Lunch on your own
1:30-2:50	A.  Hawthorne's Origins David Cody, Hartwick College, "New Light on Hawthorne's Literary Borrowing" Michael Cody, East Tennessee State University, "The Storyteller: Hawthorne and 'The Puritan Instinct That Was in Him'" Peter West, Adelphi University, "The Journalistic Origins of Romance" B.  Hawthorne's Aesthetics Michael Broek, "New World Man: Hawthorne, Aesthetics, and Implications for Twenty-first-Century Criticism"  Kristie Hamilton, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, "The Blush of History: A New Aesthetics of Sensation in Hawthorne's 'A Book of Autographs'" Gayle L. Smith, Penn State Worthington Scranton, "Hawthorne and the New Art of Daguerreotype: Image, Truth, Art, and Class" C.  Hawthorne and the New Classroom Deborah Noel, University of Vermont, "Hawthorne's Historical Romance in the 'New' (Often Ahistorical) Classroom" Hal Shows, Keiser University, "Hawthorne and Today's Undergraduates" Rosemary Fisk and Tanu, Samford University, "'The Minister's Black Veil' and Islam in the Core Classroom"
3:10-4:30	A.  Hawthorne: Old and New Thomas Flanigan, Idaho State University, "New Eden/Old Adam: Hawthorne's Reflections on the Early American Character and His Allegorical Prophecy of Cultural Suicide in 'Roger Malvin's Burial'" James Hewitson, University of Tennessee, "'Marble and Mud': Hawthorne's Old New World" Peter J. Bellis, University of Alabama at Birmingham, "Old into New in Hawthorne's American Claimant Manuscripts" B.  Radio, Comics, and Laughter Tim Prchal, Oklahoma State University, "'Thus Literature Was Etherealized': Adaptations of Hawthorne's Fiction during Radio's Golden Age" Peter Valenti, Fayetteville State University, "Hawthorne in the Mid-Twentieth Century: The 'New' Genre of Comics" Charles Bressler and Zachary Rhone, Houghton College, "A New Look at Hawthorne's Ambiguity: Using Laughter to Unlock Hawthorne's Literary Techniques for Creating Ambiguity" C.  Hawthorne Manuscripts Jana Argersinger, Washington State University, "Editing Sophia Peabody's Cuba Journal" Magnus Ullen, Karlstad University, "Septimius and the Monstrous Birth of America" Sara Crosby, Ohio State University at Marion, "Hawthorne's 'Medicated Indian Novel': The Septimius Manuscripts and Hawthorne's Conflicted Response to the Atlantic Monthly's New American Canon"
5:00-6:30	Tour of Hawthorne's Bowdoin with Charles Calhoun, Bowdoin historian and Longfellow scholar
6:30-7:00	Break
7:00-8:15	Lobster bake at Moulton Union
8:30-10:00	Keynote address: Larzer Ziff, Professor Emeritus at Johns Hopkins University, "A Genuine Thrill of Patriotism"
Sunday, June 15
8:30-9:50 a.m.	A.  Allegory, Archaism, and Psychoanalysis Antoine Traisnel, Fulbright Scholar at Brown University, from Lille, "Pimp My Hawthorne: Criticism, Allegory, and the Compulsion for Novelty" David Heckerl, Saint Mary's University, "Opposing the New: Tocqueville, Hawthorne, and the Practices of Archaism" Yuji Kato, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, "Nathaniel Hawthorne's Repetitive Double Outsets: Twice-Told Tales and the Politics of Psychoanalysis" B.  Hawthorne and Bowdoin Jason Courtmanche, University of Connecticut, "Why Fanshawe Failed, or Why We Need Sinful Women" William Heath, Mount St. Mary's University, "The Dream of Undying Fame: Hawthorne's Fanshawe" Klaus P. Stich, University of Ottawa, "'Cap'n Hathorne': Hawthorne's Reconnection to Ancient Deeds during Bowdoin's Fiftieth-Anniversary Celebration"
10:00-10:30	Coffee Break
10:40 a.m.-noon	Witchcraft, Addiction, and Punishment Anna Milione, University of Palermo, "Hawthorne and the New Witchcraft" Gale Temple, University of Alabama at Birmingham, "Hawthorne, Addiction, and the New Social Contract" John C. Barton, University of Missouri-Kansas City, "Many Happy Returns: Hawthorne and Punishment"