Scarlet Letters: Puritanism and Anglo-American Literary Culture
Mini-Conference Program
December 14, 2011
Session One: Issues in PuritanismJosh Soloc, “The Image of
Puritanism in the 17th Century”
Nick Brott, “The Decline of Puritan
Faith: The More It Is Pushed, the
Less It Is Followed”
Q & A
Session Two: Puritan Women Writers
Jonathan Rice, “Gender Maneuvers in Anne Bradstreet’s ‘Lamentation for Saul and Jonathan’”
Jason Vanfossen, “The Subject of Subjectivity in Autobiography: Lucy Hutchinson’s Autobiography and the Rise of the Public and Private Self”
Q & A
Session Three: Shades of Milton
Christy McDowell, “Robert Catesby and the Devil: How History Influenced Milton”
Jessica Neusenschwander, “Godly Self-Fashioning in Paradise Lost: The Importance of Intent”
Cody Mejeur, “Following the Grey Pilgrim: Tracing Protestant Influence in Middle Earth”
Q & A
Session Four: Prosy Puritans: Narrative in Bunyan and Defoe
Ben Moran, “‘Sweetnesse Readie Penn’d’: Bunyan’s Negotiation of Faith and Aesthetics in The Pilgrim’s Progress”
Angela Kramer, “Words and Their Impact on Interpretation”
Brandon Jennings, “Robinson Crusoe: An Examination of Character”
Q & A
Break
Session Five: Witches, Warlocks, and Mathers---Oh My!
Kate Stearns, “Historical Context of the Salem Witch Trials and Textual Analysis of Relating Works”
Sheridan Steelman, “Witchcraft in New England: Fear of Female Agency”
Jen Ptacek, “Cotton Mather’s Innocence in the Salem Witch Trials”
Q & A
Session Six: Puritan Legacies
Jen Kruger, “O Blessed be God for this Word: Puritan Involvement in the Production of the King James Bible”
Briana Barnett, "Lessons Unlearned: The Puritan Educational System and Modern
Implications"
Q & A
Final Comments: Bradburn and Slawinski
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