And here’s the podcast! This gives background on my Easton Library Company project and discusses my future plans for it. Includes a reading from Susan Warner’s “The Wide, Wide World.”…
Read moreLafayette Coverage of Easton Library Company Project
Read a story just published by Lafayette College’s communications staff (thanks, Stevie Daniels!) about my ongoing work on the Easton Library Company’s records. Podcast soon to come with more information…
Read moreThe Word from Porter Street, Installment #8
It’s been a while! I’m back in the new semester, and this installment discusses my VaST (Values and Science & Technology) course on publishing technology and copyright, as well as…
Read moreBook Update
I’m finishing work on the proofs this week. Follow this link to view the book page for Epic in American Culture on the Johns Hopkins University Press. More podcasts on…
Read moreLiterature of the Sea Website
Follow this link to the course website for my Literature of the Sea course this semester: http://scribe.lafayette.edu/eng276-fa11/
Read moreThe Word from Porter Street #7
After a bit of a break, the podcast returns with news of the Literature of the Sea course I’m teaching this semester—including a way for you to “listen in” and…
Read moreInstallment #6
I’m back! Listen for my words on Ed Whitley’s new work on Bohemians, my work (and others’) on Longfellow’s late poetry, and a brief description of a new digital humanities…
Read moreLafayette’s Melvilleans Get Press
A feature from the latest issue of Lafayette Magazine highlights my work on Melville in The Course of Epic in American Culture alongside Jay Parini’s Passages of H.M. and Anthony Caleshu’s Of Whales.…
Read moreThe Word from Porter Street, Installment #4
The latest installment of The Word from Porter Street includes a brief review of the Society of Early Americanists conference in March 2011, a look at my work on Cotton…
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The Word from Porter Street, #5
This installment offers an “applied research” look at the end of the world, via Cotton Mather; I also read Isaac Watts’ “There Is a Land of Pure Delight.” Approximate length:…
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