LLC Early American Executive Committee members
Monique Allewaert, Jan. 2020
Duncan F. Faherty, Jan. 2021 (2019–Jan. 2020 Ch.)
Jordan Alexander Stein, Jan. 2022 (2019–Jan. 2020 Sec.)
Martha Elena Rojas, Jan. 2023
Kirsten Silva Gruesz, Jan. 2024
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Juliane Braun deposited Bioprospecting Breadfruit: Imperial Botany, Transoceanic Relations, and the Politics of Translation in the group
LLC Early American on MLA Commons 4 weeks ago
This article traces the breadfruit tree’s strange career as an eighteenth-century superfood, its journey from the Pacific world to the Caribbean islands, and the rhetorical practices, epistemological slippages, and linguistic permutations that undergirded these developments. Comparing indigenous, Spanish, English, Dutch, French, and US-American d…[Read more]
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Christopher Looby started the topic UCLA Early American Literatures and Cultures Assistant Professor in the discussion
LLC Early American on MLA Commons 2 months, 2 weeks ago
UCLA Early American Literatures and Cultures Assistant Professor
Recruitment Period Open September 1st, 2019 through Sunday, Oct 20, 2019 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time)
Description
The Department of English invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in early American literatures and cultures (pre-1800). Areas of particular…[Read more]
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Juliane Braun deposited The Drama of History in Francophone New Orleans in the group
LLC Early American on MLA Commons 6 months, 1 week ago
On January 1, 1824, the English-speaking population of New Orleans celebrated the grand opening of the American Theatre, lauding
the advent of “Bards our own” and the rise of “our Drama” in the Crescent City (qtd. in Smither 41). For the city’s francophone residents, this event marked a new stage in the ongoing battle for cultural survival.…[Read more] -
Juliane Braun deposited Introduction to Creole Drama: Theatre and Society in Antebellum New Orleans in the group
LLC Early American on MLA Commons 6 months, 1 week ago
Moving from France to the Caribbean to the American continent, Creole Drama follows the people that created, shaped, and sustained French theatre culture in New Orleans from its inception in 1792 until the beginning of the Civil War. In doing so, it draws upon the neglected archive of francophone drama native to Louisiana, as well as a range of…[Read more]
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Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2019 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
American Literature to 1800 on MLA Commons 1 year, 2 months ago
The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2019, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2019 convention in Chicago. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]
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Jonathan Senchyne deposited Vibrant Material Textuality: New Materialism, Book History, and the Archive in Paper in the group
LLC Early American on MLA Commons 1 year, 3 months ago
I look to the ways material text studies might be prompted by, and improve upon, thinking in new materialism. The result is that paper could be read for how histories and narratives seep into the paper record and require accounts of agentic materiality lest they be lost or muted. In what follows, I use stories about rag paper as points of…[Read more]
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Benjamin Fagan deposited Blake and the Black Newspaper in the group
LLC Early American on MLA Commons 1 year, 8 months ago
A contribution to a forum on Martin Delany, Blake; Or the Huts of America, ed. Jerome Mcgann.
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Sarah E. Chinn deposited Masculinity and National Identity on the Early American Stage in the group
LLC Early American on MLA Commons 1 year, 10 months ago
This essay explores how the early American stage functioned as an incubator for ideas about national identity, artistic expression, and masculinity. Reading four plays from the early years of the Republic – Royall Tyler’s The Contrast, William Dunlap’s Andre´, John Augustus Stone’s Metamora, and Robert Montgomery Bird’s The Gladiator, I demonstrat…[Read more]
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Benjamin Fagan deposited Review of Daniel Hack, Reaping Something New: African American Transformations of Victorian Literature in the group
LLC Early American on MLA Commons 2 years, 2 months ago
A review of Daniel Hack’s work on the intersections of African American and Victorian literatures.
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Benjamin Fagan deposited Review Essay on Black Women and 19th-century American Print Culture in the group
LLC Early American on MLA Commons 2 years, 6 months ago
Review Essay on Black Women and 19th-century American Print Culture
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Benjamin Fagan deposited Reclaiming Revolution: William Wells Brown’s Irreducible Haitian Heroes in the group
LLC Early American on MLA Commons 2 years, 6 months ago
This article focuses on William Wells Brown’s 1854 history of the Haitian Revolution.
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Benjamin Fagan deposited “Feebler than the Original”: Translation and Early Black Transnationalism in the group
LLC Early American on MLA Commons 2 years, 6 months ago
This article reads the printing and commentary on Tennyson’s “Charge of the Light Brigade” in Frederick Douglass’ Paper as an act and theorization of translation.
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Benjamin Fagan deposited Harriet Jacobs’s Rogue Reading in the group
LLC Early American on MLA Commons 2 years, 7 months ago
This forum contribution reads Harriet Jacobs’s use of print as a model for contemporary scholarship.
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Benjamin Fagan deposited “Americans As They Really Are”: The Colored American and the Illustration of National Identity in the group
LLC Early American on MLA Commons 2 years, 7 months ago
This article explores the illustrations that appeared in the Colored American (1837-1841), a black newspaper published in New York City.
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Carol DeGrasse deposited The Fabric of Society: Textiles as an Indicator of Social Class in Domestic Novels in the group
LLC Early American on MLA Commons 2 years, 7 months ago
This paper examines textiles as an indicator of social class in the sentimental novels of the American long 1850s. Publications such as Godey’s Lady’s Book (1830) and Lady’s World of Fashion (1842) are credited with creating the ties between social status and textile quality. Yet, domestic novels of the long 1850s such as The Discarded Daugh…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate started the topic Call for Contributors: The Open Anthology of Early American Literature in the discussion
American Literature to 1800 on MLA Commons 2 years, 8 months ago
The Open Anthology of Earlier American Literature was initially created by Robin deRosa at Plymouth State University. Working with students, they collected public domain texts, edited them as necessary and created introductions for each to form the beginnings of a new, definitive anthology of Early American Literature.
The project is now in the…[Read more]
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Annette Kolodny deposited Schooling the Nation’s Newspaper of Record: The New York Times and Indian Genocide in the group
LLC Early American on MLA Commons 2 years, 8 months ago
In late 1991, an editor at the Sunday New York Times Book Review asked me to write a feature article about that uniquely American genre, the Indian captivity narrative. When the editor called, I was dean of the College of Humanities at the University of Arizona. I accepted the Times assignment in hopes that writing this article might prove a…[Read more]
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Jonathan Senchyne deposited Paper Nationalism: Material Textuality and Communal Affiliation in Early America in the group
LLC Early American on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months ago
Theories of the public sphere and of imagined political communities of shared reading have had lasting effects on the theoretical conceptualization of Americanist book history, but they also largely overlook the materiality of texts in ways that early and nineteenth-century American readers and writers did not. This essay reads early and…[Read more]
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Ean High started the topic Early American Sessions #MLA2017 in the discussion
American Literature to 1800 on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months ago
Reminder to support and promote the four programs arranged by the Early American forum:
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#. Title (Time, Place)
129. Politics of Invocation (Thursday the 5th, 5:15 pm, 106B, Convention Center)
167. Post-American Literature (Thursday the 5th, 7:00 pm, 104B, Convention Center)
255. Puritanism (Friday the 6th, 10:15 am, 105A, Convention…[Read more]
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Nicholas Rinehart deposited The Man That Was a Thing: Reconsidering Human Commodification in Slavery in the group
LLC Early American on MLA Commons 2 years, 12 months ago
This essay examines a longstanding normative assumption in the historiography of slavery in the Atlantic world: that enslaved Africans and their American-born descendants were bought and sold as “commodities,” thereby “dehumanizing” them and treating them as things rather than as persons. Such claims have, indeed, helped historians concept…[Read more]
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