Conference Program

LIT 6216:  Issues in Literary Study (Unruly Women in Early American Literature) Conference Program

1. Unruly women and gendered formations of national identity


Stephen Collins, Tabitha Tenney’s Female Quixotism: Early American Education and the Quixotic

Spencer Tricker, ‘Cruel Ignominious Death:’ Martyrdom of the Marginalized in John Neal’s Rachel Dyer

Jennifer Brunk, “Rosenglory”: Infantilism and Free Agency in the Case of Amelia Norman

Panel Chair:  Lindsay Anderson
Respondents:  Zachary Hyde, Jay Jay Stroup, Blake Vives


2. Unruly women, gender boundaries, and crossing


Blake Vives, Discovering Deborah Sampson: Gallantress of Early American Feminine Masculinity

Mark Hartley, Codifying Cross-dressing for Patriotism in The Female Marine

Jay Jay Stroup, Bonds of Intimacy: The Female Homosocial and Lesbian Continuum in Milcah Martha Moore’s Book

Panel Chair: Stephen Collins
Respondents: Spencer Tricker, Lindsay Anderson, Lesley Koon


3. Theorizing unruly women: performance and masquerade


Zachary Hyde, Performance, Resistance, and the Panoptic in Early American Execution Events

Lindsay Anderson, Rebecca Reed’s Escape: A Tale of Manipulation and Masquerade

Lesley Koon, Why Are These Nuns Laughing?:  Mad Jane Ray and the Deployment of Carnival Laughter in Maria Monk’s Awful Disclosures

Panel Chair:  Jay Jay Stroup
Respondents: Mark Hartley, Jennifer Brunk, Stephen Collins, Blake Vives