SEASECS 2024 Panel Proposal Deadline & Member News
SEASECS 2024 Deadline Approaching
The deadline for SEASECS 2024 panel proposals is this Friday, May 19, 2023. Please send paragraph-length panel proposals, including the organizer’s name and email address, to Nathan.Brown@furman.edu. Topics may be related to the conference theme, “Ties that Bind: Reflections on the Past and Future of Eighteenth-Century Studies,” or to any aspect of the long eighteenth century.
Notification of accepted panels will be sent out by June 1. Panel topics and organizer contact information will then be included in the general CFP for individual papers and fully-formed panels. The deadline to submit paper proposals to chairs of accepted panels or for individual papers is Friday, September 15, 2023.
For more on SEASECS 2024 and all the events Nathan has planned for us in Greenville, South Carolina, please visit the conference website.
Recent Member News
After more than 20 years at Coastal Carolina University as a professor, dean, and, most recently, Provost and Executive Vice President, Daniel J. Ennis has been named the ninth President of Delta State University in Cleveland, Mississippi. He will begin his new position in June. Congratulations, Dan!
Patricia L. Hamilton published "Patronage or Friendship? Charlotte Lennox and the Fifth Earl of Orrery" in Eighteenth-Century Life 47.1 (Jan. 2023). The essay examines the professional friendship Orrery forged with Lennox during the 1750s, which culminated in his joining the all-male team of scholars she supervised for her groundbreaking translation from the French of The Greek Theatre of Father Brumoy (1760).
Catherine Ingrassia’s Domestic Captivity and the British Subject 1660-1750 was published by University of Virginia Press in 2022.
Christopher D. Johnson’s Samuel Richardson, Comedic Narrative and the Culture of Domestic Violence: Abused Pamela was published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing in April 2023.
Lacy Marschalk’s “Teaching Eliza Fay's Original Letters from India (1817) through Classroom Editing” was published in the Winter 2022 issue of ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830.
Heather R. Mason and Christopher E. Hendricks’ “Take into Account: Anne Pattison’s Wastebook Documents One Woman’s Tavern-Keeping Life in the Eighteenth Century” was published in the Spring 2023 issue of Colonial Williamsburg’s magazine, Trend & Tradition. Chris also has an article, “The Jumble: Cookies, Society, and International Trade,” in Volume 52 of Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture.
Bryan C. Rindfleisch’s “Metawney of Coweta, Muscogee Women, and Historical Erasure in the Eighteenth-Century Past and Our Present” also appeared in Volume 52 of Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture. Additionally, Bryan (with co-author Alejandra Dubcovsky) wrote the introduction to the volume’s “Indigenizing the Eighteenth-Century American South” cluster.
Robert M. Craig, Professor Emeritus at Georgia Tech, published seven(!) books in 2021-23.
Oyster Shell Alleys and Other Remembrances of Times Past (2021) is a collection of semi-autobiographical short stories about growing up in the 1950s/60s in the beach resort of Ocean City, Maryland.
Irma’s Seed: Beach Poems and Life Poems (2021) is a collection of Craig’s poetry.
Georgia Tech Campus Architecture (2021) is an illustrated survey of the buildings (1888-present) at Georgia Tech, where Craig taught for four decades.
Atlanta’s Public Art (2021) is the first overview of the recent phenomenon of urban mural art and includes public sculpture, with chapters on civil rights, immigration, sports, pop culture, and African art (murals and sculpture) in Atlanta, as well as chapters on John Portman’s and Julian Harris’s public sculpture. This book and Georgia Tech Campus Architecture are part of Arcadia Publishing’s Images of America book series.
Campus Walks: A Guide to the Architecture of Georgia Tech (2022) is a comprehensive (700 page) documentation of campus architecture and art organized with maps, photos, and both architectural and institutional history.
Historic Lodgings of Ocean City: The Fisher Collection (2023) is an architectural history of the Maryland beach resort featuring shingle-clad hotels, tourist cabins/camps, Doo-Wop motels, and condo towers from 1875 to present.
Due out in July is the companion volume Ocean City’s Historic Boardwalk, Beach, and Bay: The Fisher Collection. Both volumes are part of Arcadia’s historic postcard book collection.
Additionally, Craig had articles appear in ARRIS XXXI, Art Inquiries XVIII, and ARRIS XXXII; his photographs were featured on the latter two issues’ covers; and he contributed a chapter to the festschrift in honor of Annabel Jenkins, The World of Elizabeth Inchbald: Essays on Literature, Culture, and Theatre in the Long Eighteenth Century, edited by Daniel J. Ennis and E. Joe Johnson (University of Delaware Press, 2022).
This is our last issue of the academic year, but we’ll be back in early Fall 2023 with more society news. If you have news you’d like to share in a future issue, please visit our Google Form, through which you can submit any personal or professional updates, calls for papers, event information, job postings, or anything else of relevance to our membership.
Thank you for reading, and have a great summer!
Thank you so much for your work on the Gazette, Lacy!