Colonial Americas Workshop - "Seduction and Revolution in the Transoceanic Eighteenth Century"

Date
Monday, November 6, 2017, 4:30 pm6:00 pm
Location
211 Dickinson Hall
Audience
Public

Speaker

Details

Event Description

"Seduction and Revolution in the Transoceanic Eighteenth Century"
Michelle Burnham, Santa Clara University


This workshop is open to the public. There will be a pre-circulated paper for this workshop. The paper will be released approximately one-week prior to the workshop. To receive a copy of the paper, email Jennifer Loessy at [email protected].


Michelle Burnham is Professor of History at Santa Clara University. Burnham specializes in early American literature, transoceanic early modern literature, Native American literature, and the novel. She is the author of Folded Selves: Colonial American Writing in the World System (2007) and Captivity and Sentiment: Cultural Exchange in American Literature, 1682-1865 (1997). She is the editor of The Female American (2nd ed, 2014) and of A Separate Star: Selected Writings of Helen Hunt Jackson (2008). She is currently completing a book, The Revolutionary Pacific: Transoceanic American Writing and the Calculus of Risk.

Co-Sponsored by:

Program in American Studies and the Department of English

Contact
Jennifer L
Area of Interest
Colonialism & Post Colonialism
Period
17th & 18th Centuries
Region
United States
Scholarly Series
Colonial and Revolutionary Americas Workshop