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Early American Literary History
Articles “Joy and Dread Among the Early Americanists,” William & Mary Quarterly, 3d Series, Vol. 57, 3 (July 2000): 635-640. “British-American Belles Lettres,” The Cambridge History of America Literature, Volume One 1590-1820 Sacvan Bercovitch, editor. New York & Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press, 1994. “Rehistoricizing Early American Literature,” Review Essay, American Literary History, 5, 3 (Fall 1993): 542-52. “The Tuesday Club Writings and the Literature of Sociability,” Review Essay, Early American Literature, 26, 3 (1991): 276-90. “Nathaniel Gardner, Jr. and the Literary Culture of Boston in the 1750s,” Early American Literature 24, 3 (1989): 196-216. “An Academic Satire: The College of New Jersey in 1748,” Princeton University Library Chronicle, 52 (Autumn 1988): 38-60. “Henry Brooke and the Situation of the First Belletrists in British America,” Early American Literature, 23, 1 (1988): 4-27. “Belles Lettres in British America.” The Age of William III and Mary II; Power, Politics and Patronage 1688-1702, Eds. Robert P. Maccubbin & Martha Hamilton-Philips, New York: The Grolier Club, 1989. “Then Religion to America Shall Flee: New World Exegetes of Herbert’s Prophecy of America’s Rising Glory,” Like Season’d Timber: New Essays on George Herbert, ed. Robert DiYanni. New York: Peter Lang, 1988. “Clio Mocks the Masons: Joseph Green’s Anti-Masonic Satires,” Deism, Masonry, and the Enlightenment, ed. J. A. Leo Lemay. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1987. “Mental Nocturnes: Night Thoughts on Man and Nature in the Poetry of Eighteenth-Century America,” The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 110(April 1986): 23758. “The Religious Sublime and New England Poets of the 1720s,” Early American Literature, 19, 2 (1984/85): 231-48. “The Wits and Poets of Pennsylvania: New Light on the Rise of Belles Lettres in Provincial Pennsylvania, 1720-40,” The Pennsylvania Magazine of History And Biography, 109 (April 1985): 99-144. “Exploratory Narratives and the Development of the New England Passage Journal,” Essex Institute Historical Collections, 120 (January 1984): 38-57. “Happiness in Society: the Development of an Eighteenth-Century Poetic Ideal,” American Literature, 55, 4 (1983): 541-59. Lectures “The Transatlantic Trade in British Imperial Literature,” UNESCO Planning Conference on the Transatlantic Slave Trade Project, Charleston, July, 2001. “What is an Early Americanist,” American Literature Association, Baltimore, May 1993. “Sons of the Dragon; or, The English Hero Revived,” American Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies, Boston, March 24-28, 2004 |
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Southern Studies
Articles “Clubs,” “British-American culture,” “Colonial Southern Literature,” The Companion to Southern Literature. Eds. Joseph M. Flora & Lucinda MacKethan. Baton Rogue: Louisiana State University Press, 2002. “The Literature of England’s Staple Colonies,” Teaching The Literatures of Early America, ed. Carla Mulford. New York: The Modern Language Association, 1999. “Henry Timrod-A bio-critical Essay,” Encyclopedia of American Poetry : The Nineteenth Century, ed. Eric Haralson. Chicago and London: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1998. “Literature of the Colonial South,” Resources in American Literary Study, Special Issue: Expanding the Canon of Early American Literature, Vol. 19, 2 (1993):11-59. “James Kirkpatrick: Laureate of British American Mercantilism,” The Meaning of South Carolina History; Essays in Honor of George C. Rogers, Jr. Eds. David R. Chesnutt & Clyde N. Wilson. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1991. “George Ogilvie’s Carolina or the Planter 1776: an Introduction & Reprint Edition.” “George Ogilvie’s Letters, 1774-1778.” Southern Literary Journal, Special Issue, 1986. Lectures “I’m Not Talking About the South,” Annual Meeting of the Southern Historical Association, New Orleans, October 2001. “Anniversary Reflections: Black Majority Twenty-Five Years On,” Symposium in Honor of Peter Wood, Program in the Carolina Lowcountry & the Atlantic World, Charleston, November, 1999. “Making One’s Way in 1730s Charleston,” Atlantic Studies Symposium, College of Charleston, March 1997. “The Performative World of a Southern Colonial Man of Letters,” Southern Intellectual History Circle Meeting, New Orleans, February 1996. “The Spheres of Conversation, Manuscript, and Print in Colonial Charleston,” Modern Language Association, December 1995. “Communal Self-Understandings in Southern Provincial Histories,” Southern Historical Association, Fort Worth, Nov., 1991. “Southern Colonial Belles Lettres,” Southern Intellectual History Circle, Chapel Hill, March, 1990. “The Western Design and Southern Ambition: The Prehistory of Southern Imperialism,” The Southern Intellectual History Circle Meeting, Charleston, Feb. 26-28, 2004 |
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History of the Book
Articles “Learned Culture in the Early Republic,” A History of the Book in America, Vol. 2, eds. Mary Kelley & Robert Gross. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008. “‘We declare you independent whether you wish it or not’: The Print Culture of Early Filibusterism.” The 24th Annual James Russell Wiggins Lecture. Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society Vol. 116, 2 (2006): 233-259. “Aching in the Archive” Presidential Address of the Society of Early Americanists. March 2001. http://www.humanities.uci.edu/~mclark/PresAd2001.pdf “18th-Century Literary Culture.” A History of the Book in America, Volume One: The Colonial Book in the Atlantic World. David D. Hall & Hugh Amory, editors. New York & Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press, 2000. “The Manuscript in the British American World of Print,” Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, Vol. 102, 2 (1993): 403-16. Dissertation: “A History of Private Diary Writing in New England, 1620-1745,” University of Chicago, 1982. Awarded Distinction. Lectures “Reading as a Social Act,” Plenary Lecture, Northeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Hanover, NH, December 1999. “Discursive Institutions in British America,” Early American Workshop, The University of Chicago, March 1996. “The Cultural Space of Writing in British America,” Center for Cultural Studies, Harvard University, Oct. 1995. “The Communities of Discourse of the Manuscript in British America,” Commonwealth Center Seminar, College of William & Mary, Oct., 1991. |
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Cultural History & Material Culture Studies
Articles “The Search for the Cure: the Quest for the Superlative American Ham.” Common-place Volume 8, 1 (October 2007). http://common-place.dreamhost.com//vol-08/no-01/shields/index.shtml “Civilization.” Keywords for American Cultural Studies. Bruce Burgett and Glenn Hendler, eds. New York: New York University Press, 2007. “Mean Streets, Mannered Streets: Charleston” Common-Place. Special Issue: Early Cities of the Americas. http://www.common-place.org/vol-03/no-04/charleston/ “The Science of Lying,” Messy Beginnings: Postcoloniality and Early American Studies, Eds. Melani Johar Schueller, Edward Watts, and Mikelle Smith Omari-Tunkara. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2003. “The Demonization of the Tavern,” The Serpent in the Cup: Temperance in American Literature. Eds. David S. Reynolds & Debra Rosenthal. University of Massachusetts Press,1998. “Moving the Rock,” Finding Colonial Americas, eds., Carla Mulford & David Shields. Trenton: Associated University Presses, 2001). “Reading the Landscape of Federal America,” Everyday Life in the Early Republic, ed. Catherine E. Hutchins. Winterthur, DE: Winterthur Museum, 1995. “Anglo-American Clubs: Their Wit, Their Heterodoxy, Their Sedition,” William & Mary Quarterly, 3d Series, Vol. 52, 2 (April 1994): 293-304. Lectures “Thrones & Punch Bowls: the Parodic Material Culture of Anglo-American Gentlemen’s Clubs.” Society of Historians of the Early American Republic Meeting, Berkeley, CA, July 2002. (with Fredrika Teute) “The Confederation Court,” Courts Without Kings: Meeting of the International Court Studies Association, Boston, September 2001. “Culture” Plenary Presentation, SHEAR (Society of Historians of the Early American Republic), Annual Meeting, Buffalo, NY July 2000. (with Bernard Herman) “The Philadelphiad: a City’s Character Made Visible,” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Philadelphia, April 2000. “George & Martha Washington and the Republican Court,” Symposium: George Washington and the American South. University of Southern Mississippi, October 1999. “George Washington: Publicity, Probity, and Power,” Huntington Library, November 1998. (with Fredrika Teute) “Jefferson and the Republican Court,” Institute of Early American Literature Conference, Salem, NC, June 1997. (with Fredrika Teute) “The Crisis of Elite Manners in Revolutionary America: The Meschianza’s Message,” Colloquium, Institute of Early American History & Culture, Williamsburg VA Oct. 1996 “The Meschianza: Sum of all Fetes,” Organization of American Historians Meeting, Chicago, IL, March, 1996. (with Fredrika Teute) “The Republican Court and the Historiography of the Women’s Domain in the Public Sphere,” Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, Boston, July, 1994. “Parlor Parlance and Print; Discourses of the Republican Court,” Possible Pasts: Critical Encounters in Early American. Philadelphia Center for Early American Studies, Philadelphia, June, 1994. “The Tea-Table as Cultural Institution,” Delaware Seminar in American Studies, University of Delaware, Oct., 1992. “The Urban Landscape Transfigured,” Colonial Williamsburg Antiques & Architecture Forum, February, 1990. |
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Intellectual History of the Early Modern Atlantic World
Articles “The World I Ate: Prophets of Global Consumption Culture,” Eighteenth Century Life, 26, 3, Festschrift for Robert Maccubbin (Summer 2002). “Colonial Images of Europe and America” Encyclopedia of American Cultural & Intellectual History, Vol 1, Cayton, Mary Kupiec & Williams, Peter W. eds, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2001. “Salons, Coffeehouses, Conventicles, and Taverns” Encyclopedia of American Cultural & Intellectual History, Vol 1, Cayton, Mary Kupiec & Williams, Peter W. eds, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. 2001. “Civil Society,” Encyclopedia of the American Revolution, Jack Pole & Jack P. Greene, eds, Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2nd edition, 2000. “Cosmopolitanism and the Anglo-Jewish Elite in British America,” A Mixed Race: Ethnicity in Early America, ed., Frank Shuffelton. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. “George Washington–Publicity, Probity, and Power,” George Washington's South, eds. Tamara Harvey & Greg O’Brien. University Press of Florida, December 2003 Lectures “Inventing New England’s Origins,” Institute for the Study of the United States lecture series, University of Toronto, December 3, 1998. “The Rise of Grub Street and the Williamite Empire,” American Historical Association, Washington, DC, December 1992. “The Prerogative of Friendship and the Right of Association,” American Studies Association, Baltimore, Nov. 1991. “The Masanielo Revolt & the Fear of Revolution in British America,” Modern Language Association Meeting, Chciago, IL, December, 1990 “The Genius of Ancient Britain,” The Atlantic World and Virginia, 1550-1624 Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture, March 4-7, 2004 |
