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EDUCATION
Ph.D. English (Early American Literature), University of Delaware, December 1983
Dissertation: "Joel Barlow's Letters, 1775-1788" Director, J. A. Leo Lemay
M.A. English, University of Delaware, June 1979
B.S. English and Education, summa cum laude, University of Delaware, June 1977
TEACHING APPOINTMENTS
Penn State University: Assoc. Prof., 1992--; Asst. Prof., 1986-92
Villanova University: Assistant Professor, 1984-86
Temple University: Visiting Full-Time Instructor, 1982-84
PUBLICATIONS
Books
The Cambridge Companion to Benjamin Franklin. Cambridge and London: Cambridge University Press, 2008. A collection of original essays on some of the most important aspects of Franklin's intellectual career, designed for undergraduate and graduate students and interested general readers.
Early American Writings. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. General Editor; Associate Editors Angela Vietto and Amy E. Winans. Anthology of readings.
Finding Colonial Americas: Essays Honoring J.A. Leo Lemay. Edited with David Shields. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2001. Edited collection of essays.
Teaching the Literatures of Early America, MLA Options in Teaching Series. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1999. Edited collection.
American Women Prose Writers to 1820, vol. 200, Dictionary of Literary Biography series. Edited with Angela Vietto and Amy E. Winans. Detroit, Washington, DC, and London: Bruccoli Clark Layman, 1998. Edited reference book.
William Hill Brown's The Power of Sympathy (1789) and Hannah Webster Foster's The Coquette (1797). Penguin Classics series. New York and London: Viking-Penguin, 1996. Critical, scholarly edition and textbook of two well-known early American novels.
Only for the Eye of a Friend: The Poems of Annis Boudinot Stockton. Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia, 1995. Scholarly study and edition setting Stockton canon and reconfiguring scholarly evaluation of manuscript culture and "publication" for women.
John Leacock's The First Book of the American Chronicles of the Times, 1774-1775. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1987. Critical, scholarly edition of American revolutionary propaganda series, published anonymously by a relative of Benjamin Franklin.
The Heath Anthology of American Literature, 2 vols., Paul Lauter, et al., eds. Lexington, Mass.: D.C. Heath and Co., 1990. Third Edition, December, 1997, published by Houghton Mifflin. Edited pre-nineteenth-century materials for editions 1-3.
Essays in Journals and Chapters in Books
"Benjamin Franklin's Savage Eloquence: Hoaxes from the Press at Passy, 1782." Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. [forthcoming; 50 typescript pages]
"Introduction." In The Cambridge Companion to Benjamin Franklin, ed. Carla Mulford. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. [forthcoming; 14 typescript pages]
"Benjamin Franklin and the American Dream," with Nian-Sheng Huang. In The Cambridge Companion to Benjamin Franklin, ed. Carla Mulford. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. [forthcoming; 21 typescript pages]
"Print and Manuscript Cultures in British North America." In The Oxford Handbook of Early American Literature, ed. Kevin J. Hayes. Oxford University Press [forthcoming; 45 typescript pages]
"Benjamin Franklin, Traditions of Liberalism, and Women's Learning in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia." In Educating the Youth of Pennsylvania: Worlds of Learning in the Age of Franklin, ed. John Pollack and Michael Ryan. University of Pennsylvania Press [forthcoming; 34 typescript pages]
"Benjamin Franklin, Pennsylvania Germans, and the Ethnic Origins of Nations." In Halle Pietism, Colonial North America, and the Young United States. USA Studien 15. Ed. Hans-Jurgen Grabbe. Stuttgart: Steiner. [forthcoming; 23 typescript pages]
"Writing Women in Early American Studies: On Canons, Feminist Critique, and Writing Women into History." Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, 26 (Spring 2007) 107-18.
"Pox and 'Hell-Fire': Boston's Smallpox Controversy, the New Science, and Early Modern Liberalism." In Periodical Literature in Eighteenth-Century America. Ed. Mark L. Kamrath and Sharon M. Harris. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2005. Pages 7-27.
"George Washington, the South, and the Poetics of National Memory." In George Washington's South. Ed. Tamara Harvey and Greg O'Brien. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2004. Pages 316-65.
"Of Nature and of Nations: Anglicization, Creolization, and Finding an American Identity in Eighteenth-Century British America." In Do the Americas Have a Common Literary History? Ed. Barbara Buchenau and Annette Paatz. Frankfurt-am-Main and New York: Lang, 2002. Pages 61-94.
"Benjamin Franklin, Native Americans, and the Commerce of Civility." In Revolutionary Histories: Transatlantic Cultural Nationalism, 1775-1815. Ed. W. M. Verhoeven. Houndsmills, England, and New York: Palgrave Press, of St. Martin's Press, 2002. Pages 48-61.
"Imagining Benjamin Franklin," Afterword in Benjamin Franklin: The Autobiography and Other Writings. Ed. L. Jesse Lemisch. Signet Classics edition. New York: New American Library, 2001. Pages 344-52.
"New Science and the Question of Identity in Eighteenth-Century British America." In Finding Colonial Americas: Essays Honoring J.A. Leo Lemay. Ed. Carla Mulford and David Shields. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2001. Pages 79-103.
"The Ineluctability of the Peoples' Stories," William and Mary Quarterly, 3d ser., 57 (July 2000), 621-34.
"Uber Natur und Nationen: Anglisierung, Kreolisierung und das Finden einer amerikanischen Identitat im Anglo-Amerika des 18. Jahrhunderts." Trans. Armin Paul Frank. In Muster und Funktionen kultureller Selbst- und Fremdwahrnehmung: Beitrage zur internationalen Geschichte der sprachlichen und literarischen Emanzipation. Ed. Fritz Paul and Ulrike-Christine Sander. Gottingen, Germany: Wallstein Verlag, 2000. Pages 467-78.
"Franklin, Women, and American Cultural Myths." In Benjamin Franklin and Women. Ed. Larry E. Tise. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000. Pages 104-28, 161-66.
"Benjamin Franklin, Native Americans, and European Cultures of Civility." Prospects 24 (1999), 49-66.
"Resisting Colonialism." In Teaching the Literatures of Early America. Ed. Carla Mulford. New York: Modern Language Association, 1999. Pages 75-94.
"Introduction." In Teaching the Literatures of Early America. Ed. Carla Mulford. New York: Modern Language Association, 1999. Pages 1-6.
"Figuring Benjamin Franklin in American Cultural Memory," New England Quarterly 71 (1999), 415-43.
"Franklin, Modernity, and Themes of Dissent in the Early Modern Era," Modern Language Studies 28.2 (1998), 13-27.
"Benjamin Franklin and the Myths of Nationhood." In Making America / Making American Literature: Franklin to Cooper. Ed. A. Robert Lee and W. M. Verhoeven. Amsterdam and Athens, Ga.: Rodopi, 1996. Pages 15-58.
"Huehuetlatolli, Early American Studies, and the Problem of History," with "New Directions in Early American Studies," Early American Literature 30 (1995), 145-51.
"Joel Barlow and Masonic Conspiracy." In Secret Texts: The Literature of Secret Societies. Ed. Marie Mulvey Roberts and Hugh Ormsby-Lennon. New York: AMS Press, 1995. Pages 169-87.
Forum in Teaching Early American Writings, Introduction: "The Uses of the Spanish Imperial Past in the Early 'American' Classroom," Heath Anthology of American Literature Newsletter, No. 12 (Fall,1994), 1-2. Available on www: http://www.georgetown.edu/tamlit/essays/forum_intro.html
"Recovering the Colonial, Beginning Again: On Teaching American Writings to 1800," Heath Anthology of American Literature Newsletter, No. 11 (Spring, 1994), 2-8. Available on www: http://www.georgetown.edu/tamlit/essays/colonial.html
"Political Poetics: Annis Boudinot Stockton and Middle Atlantic Women's Culture," New Jersey History 111 (Spring/Summer 1993), 66-110. Awarded 1995 Richard P. McCormick Prize in History by the New Jersey Historical Commission for best essay published on New Jersey history in the years 1993-94.
"What Is the Early American Canon, and Who Said It Needed Expanding?" Resources for American Literary Study 19 (1993), 165-73.
"Seated amid the Rainbow: On Teaching American Writings to 1800," American Literature 65 (1993), 342-48.
"Caritas and Capital: Franklin's Narrative of the Late Massacres." In Reappraising Benjamin Franklin: A Bicentennial Perspective. Ed. J. A. Leo Lemay. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1993. Pages 347-58.
"Annis Boudinot Stockton and Benjamin Young Prime: A Poetical Correspondence, and More," Princeton University Library Chronicle 52 (1991), 231-66.
"Re-presenting Early American Drama," Resources for American Literary Study 17 (1990), 1-24.
"Loyal Verses, Tory Curses of the American Revolution," New Jersey History 106 (Spring / Summer 1988), 87-99.
"Radicalism in Joel Barlow's The Conspiracy of Kings (1792)." In Deism, Masonry, and the Enlightenment: Essays Honoring Alfred Owen Aldridge. Ed. J. A. Leo Lemay. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1987. Pages 137-57.
"Booth's Progress and the Resolution of Amelia," Studies in the Novel 16 (Spring 1984), 20-31.
"Fitzgerald, Perkins, and The Great Gatsby," Journal of Narrative Technique 12 (Fall 1982), 210-20.
"An American Tragedy; Or, the Tragedy of the Adamic Myth," American Literary Realism, 1870-1910 14 (Spring 1981), 9-15.
"Fitzgerald's Revision of The Great Gatsby: The Creation of a Textual Anomaly," American Notes and Queries 19 (October 1980), 21-24.
"John Leacock's A New Song, On the Repeal of the Stamp-Act," Early American Literature 15 (1980), 188-93.
Articles in Reference Books
American National Biography. Gen. Ed. John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. "Joel Barlow," 2: 166-68. "John Leacock," 13: 323-24. "Annis Boudinot Stockton," 20: 806-08.
The Oxford Companion to Women's Writing in the United States. Ed. Cathy N. Davidson and Linda Wagner-Martin. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. "Early National Writing, 1776-1820," 264-67. "Annis Boudinot Stockton," 852-53.
Dictionary of Literary Biography: Volume 37, American Writers of the Early Republic. Ed. Emory Elliott. Detroit: Gale Research, 1985. "Richard Alsop," 9-12. "Mason Fitch Cogswell," 98-99.
Dictionary of Literary Biography: Volume 31, American Colonial Writers, 1735-1781. Ed. Emory Elliott. Detroit: Gale Research, 1984. "John Leacock," 149-51.
Media Interviews
Oregon Public Broadcasting's American Passages series, designed for classroom use. Commentator on video, "The Spirit of Nationalism." Available January 2003 for purchase and available at http://www.learner.org/amerpass/.
Book Reviews
Eric Stockdale, 'Tis Treason, My Good Man!: Four Revolutionary Presidents and a Piccadilly Bookshop, in Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 101 (2007) 255-57.
Lester C. Olson, Benjamin Franklin's Vision of American Community: A Study in Rhetorical Iconology, in The American Historical Review 111 (2006), 157-58.
Etsuko Taketani, U.S. Women Writers and the Discourses of Colonialism, 1825-1861, in Journal of the Early Republic 25 (2005), 516-18.
Bernard Bailyn, To Begin the World Anew: The Genius and Ambiguities of the American Founders, in Early American Literature 39 (2004), 393-99.
Eliga H. Gould, The Persistence of Empire: British Political Culture in the Age of the American Revolution, in The New England Quarterly 75 (2002), 157-60.
Nian-Sheng Huang, Franklin's Father Josiah: Life of a Colonial Boston Tallow Chandler, 1657-1745, in Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 125 (2001), 405-08.
David Shields, Civil Tongues and Polite Letters, in American Literature 70 (1998), 397-98.
Francis Jennings, Benjamin Franklin, Politician: The Mask and the Man, in Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 121 (1997), 371-74.
Robert Middlekauff, Benjamin Franklin and His Enemies, in Pennsylvania History 64 (1997), 103-05.
Sacvan Bercovitch, gen. ed., The Cambridge History of American Literature, Vol. I: 1590-1820, in American Literature 68 (1996), 227-28.
Susan E. Klepp and Billy G. Smith, eds., The Infortunate: The Voyage and Adventures of William Moraley, an Indentured Servant, in Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 117 (1993), 339-41.
William C. Dowling, Poetry and Ideology in Revolutionary Connecticut, in Early American Literature 27 (1992), 226-29.
Larry J. Reynolds, European Revolutions and the American Literary Renaissance, in American Literature 63 (1991), 231-32.
J.A. Leo Lemay, ed., Robert Bolling Woos Anne Miller: Love and Courtship in Colonial Virginia, 1760, in Early American Literature 26 (1991), 207-11.
Kenneth A. Lockridge, The Diary, and Life, of William Byrd II of Virginia, 1674-1744, in Seventeenth-Century News 38 (Spring / Summer 1990), 19-20.
Karen Ordahl Kupperman, ed., Captain John Smith: A Select Edition of His Writings, in The Southern Quarterly 27, iv (Summer 1989), 120-22.
Albert Furtwangler, American Silhouettes: Rhetorical Identities of the Founders, in The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 113 (1989), 470-72.
Cathy N. Davidson, Revolution and the Word: The Rise of the Novel in America, in The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 112 (1988), 462-63.
Robert A. Ferguson, Law and Letters in American Culture, in The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 112 (April 1988), 289-91.
Darwin Payne, Owen Wister: Chronicler of the West, Gentleman of the East, in The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 111 (1987), 261-64.
Helen Hartman Gemmill, E.L., The Bread Box Papers: A Biography of Elizabeth Chapman Lawrence, in The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 109 (January 1985), 93-95.
Carol F. Karlsen and Laurie Crumpacker, eds., The Journal of Esther Edwards Burr, 1754-1757, in Resources for American Literary Study 14 (1984), 169-72.
David S. Reynolds, George Lippard, in The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 107 (July 1983), 473-75.
WORK IN PROGRESS
Benjamin Franklin and the Ends of Empire. A revisionist, synthetic, and cross disciplinary study of Franklin's writings on trade, populations, empire, and race, situating these writings on society, economies, and politics in the context of his interest in what we today refer to as early modern liberalism. [projected manuscript length, 400 pp.)
RELEVANT SCHOLARLY HONORS
DLB Editor's Award for best-edited DLB volume of 1998, American Women Prose Writers to 1820.
Richard J. McCormick Prize in History, 1995: Received from the New Jersey Historical Commission, for essay published in New Jersey History, "Political Poetics: Annis Boudinot Stockton and Middle Atlantic Women's Culture."
Cincinnati History Prize, 1991: Received from the Society of the Cincinnati in the State of New Jersey for "distinguished achievement in advancing the knowledge, understanding, and appreciation of American history," in recognition of achievement in public history and scholarship for Only for the Eye of a Friend: The Poems of Annis Boudinot Stockton.
RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS
American Council of Learned Societies: Release time fellowship award toward completion of book manuscript, Benjamin Franklin and the Ends of Empire, 2006-2007
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship, Library Company of Philadelphia: Archival research fellowship award, Benjamin Franklin and the Ends of Empire, winter 2000-2001
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship, American Philosophical Society: Archival research fellowship award, Benjamin Franklin and the Ends of Empire, winter 2000-2001
Research and Graduate Studies Office, College of Liberal Arts, Penn State: Release time award (one course release) for study of Benjamin Franklin and imperial Europe, fall 1998
NEH Summer Stipend: Archival research award for work on Benjamin Franklin and Native Americans, summer 1992 (essays published, 1995, 1996, 1999)
Melvin and Rosalind Jacobs Faculty Fellowship in the Humanities, College of the Liberal Arts, Penn State: Release time and archival research fellowship award for work on Benjamin Franklin and Native Americans, summer 1992 (essays published, 1995, 1996, 1999)
Roy C. Buck Fund Award, College of the Liberal Arts, Penn State: Travel award to conduct research at Newberry Library for work on Benjamin Franklin and Native Americans, summer 1992 (essays published, 1995, 1996, 1999)
American Council of Learned Societies: Release time fellowship award for transcriptions and archival research toward multi-volume edition of Joel Barlow's letters, 1987
New Jersey Historical Commission: For research for Only for the Eye of a Friend: The Poems of Annis Boudinot Stockton, 1986 (book published, 1995)
New Jersey Committee for the Humanities: For research on Only for the Eye of a Friend: The Poems of Annis Boudinot Stockton, 1986 (book published, 1995)
Villanova University Faculty Summer Research Grant: For research and writing of "Radicalism in Joel Barlow's Conspiracy of Kings (1792)," 1985 (essay published 1987)
University of Delaware Graduate Fellowships: Academic fellowships covering two academic years of graduate coursework, 1980-82
TEACHING AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
College of Liberal Arts Outstanding Teaching Award, 2005: Received in recognition of teaching innovation and excellence
Schreyer Institute for Innovation in Learning, Penn State: Release time for preparation and implementation of experimental research seminar, an English Department Senior Seminar team-taught with graduate student and undergraduate intern, titled "Colonial Encounters, Columbian Consequences," spring 1998, spring 1999
SELECTED SCHOLARLY, PROFESSIONAL, AND CONSULTING ACTIVITIES
Benjamin Franklin Tercentenary Consortium, Benjamin Franklin 300: Consultant on programming developed to mark the 300th birthday of Benjamin Franklin. Consortium includes the American Philosophical Society, The Franklin Institute, The Library Company of Philadelphia, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the University of Pennsylvania
WITF Television and Pennsylvania and Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission: Content Review Panelist for interactive website developed by WITF public television, Harrisburg, Pa. and the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission. Website currently available at http://www.explorepahistory.com/ExplorePAHistory/home.do
Center for Advanced Study, Georg-August University at Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany: International Advisory Committee for Inter-American Literary Studies Publications Series, published by Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen, 2000-2002.
Center for Advanced Study, Georg-August University at Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany: Research Associate and Symposia Participant, 1998-1999
Society of Early Americanists: Founding President, 1990-96: initiated, developed, and implemented the founding of this interdisciplinary Society premised upon goals of scholarly exchange within and across institutions; formulated organizational structure and all founding documents
Modern Language Association: Executive Committee, Division of American Literature to 1800, 1990-1995; Division of American Literature to 1800 Executive Committee Chair, 1995
Society for the Study of American Women Writers: Advisory Board, 2002-2005.
Pennsylvania Historical Association: Executive Council, 1997-2001; 2001-2004
Book Manuscript Evaluation: American Philosophical Society; Colonial Society of Massachusetts; Duke University Press; Ohio University Press; Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture (books published by the University of North Carolina Press); Oxford University Press; Southern Illinois University Press; University of Arizona Press; University of Georgia Press; University of Illinois Press; University of New Mexico Press; University of Tennessee Press; Pennsylvania State University Press; Yale University Press
Journal Editorial Boards: American Literature (Editorial Board, 1993-96); Early American Literature (Editorial Board, 1996-2000); Early American Studies (Editorial Board, 2002 - ); Eighteenth-Century Studies (Advisory Board, 1996-2001); Legacy (Editorial Board, 1991-94; 2001-2005; 2006-2009); Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (Editorial Board, 1993-2004); Post-Identity (Editorial Board, 1997-2002)
Journal Editor Positions: Co-Editor, Resources for American Literary Study, 1986-92; Associate Editor, Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 1986-91
Journal Manuscript Evaluation (in addition to editorial board posts): Eighteenth-Century Studies; ESQ: Emerson Society Quarterly; Feminist Theory; PMLA: Publications of the Modern Language Association of America; Pennsylvania English; Rhetoric Society Quarterly; Signs; Southern Quarterly; Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture; Texas Studies in Literature and Language; William and Mary Quarterly
INVITED LECTURES AND PAPERS SINCE 2005
"Benjamin Franklin and the Ends of Empire": Invited Paper, International Symposium on Benjamin Franklin. Cambridge University, Cambridge, England, March 2, 2007
"Writing Early American Women into History": Plenary Lecture, South Central Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies conference. Tulsa, OK, February 2007
"Benjamin Franklin and Educational Liberalism in the Plan for the Academy at Philadelphia": Invited Lecture, 17th Annual Cliveden Institute, "The Mansions of His Mind: Building Benjamin Franklin." Cliveden, of the National Historical Trust, Germantown, PA, March 2006
"Benjamin Franklin, Traditions of Liberalism, and the Plan for the Academy at Philadelphia": Lecture, opening session of "The Life and Legacy of Benjamin Franklin" at California State University Channel Islands Symposium. California State University, Channel Islands, Camarillo, CA, February 2006
"Benjamin Franklin and the Question of National Character": Invited Lecture for Franklin Symposium, "Benjamin Franklin's World." Belmont University, Nashville, TN, October 2005
"Benjamin Franklin and the Ends of Empire": Informal Presentation for the summer series of the McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, PA, July 2005
"Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography and Discovering a Life": Lecture (and webcam broadcast). Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, May 2005
"Benjamin Franklin and the Ends of Empire": Invited Lecture, Joseph A. Schick Lectures, a three-day lecture symposium, "Celebrating Benjamin Franklin." Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN, March 2005
Eleven additional invited lectures.
CONFERENCE PAPERS PRESENTED SINCE 2005
"Franklin's Mercantilist Critique": Paper, Modern Language Association, Chicago, IL, December 2007
"Print Media and the Silencing of Early American Women": Paper, Modern Language Association, Chicago, IL, December 2007
"Benjamin Franklin and Early Modern Liberalism": Paper, Modern Language Association, Washington, DC, December 2005
"Savage Eloquence: Benjamin Franklin's Press at Passy, 1782-1783": Paper, opening session at American Antiquarian Society program in the History of the Book, Histories of Print, Manuscript, and Performance in America, American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, MA, June, 2005
"Hidden Hands": Paper for "Women and Early American Studies" session, Society of Early Americanists, Old Town Alexandria, VA, March/April 2005
"Benjamin Franklin and the Ends of Empire": Paper, Society of Early Americanists, Alexandria, VA, March/April 2005
Thirty-eight additional conference papers presented.