Selected Lectureships and Keynote AddressesDistinguished Fulbright Lecturer, Kyoto American Studies Seminar, Kyoto, Japan: July, 1975Bicentennial Lectures, University of Pennsylvania: February, 1976 Lawrence Gipson Lectures, Lehigh University: April, 1976 Bissell Lectures, University of Toronto: November, 1978 National Endowment for the Humanities Lectures, Washington University: November, 1979 Lecturer, Institue in American Intellectual History, Haverford, Pennsylvania: July, 1979 McMartin Lectures in Literature and Religion, Ottawa, Canada: March, 1980 Distinguished Lecture Series in American Studies, Marshall University: December, 1980 Directeur d'Etudes, Ecole des Hautes Etudes, Paris: May 1981 Greer Lectures, Miami University: January, 1983 Lecturer, Salzburg Seminar: June, 1985 Distinguished Scholar Lectures, Beijing, China: September, 1985 Lecturer, Conference on Literary Theory, George Washington University: June, 1987 Troy Lectures, University of Massachusetts at Amherst: April, 1988 Keynote Address, Conference on the Canon, Tel Aviv University: May, 1988 Keynote Address, Conference on Narrativity, Texas A&M University: October, 1994 Brackenridge Distinguished Visiting Professor, University of Texas, San Antonio: May 1994 Cagle Lecture, Rice University: January, 1995 Kumbal Lecture, California State University at Los Angeles: May, 1995 Burstein Lecture, University of California at Los Angeles: June, 1995 Miriam Leranbaum Memorial Lecture, State University of New York, Binghamton: Feb. 1996 Keynote Address, Hawthorne Society, Salem: June, 1996 Keynote Address The Renaissance Society (Conference on Early Modern Trans-Atlantic Encounters: England, Spain, and the Americas), New York City: March, 1997 Keynote Address, Trickster Conference, American Literature Association: Oct. 1997 Sarah Tryphena Phillips Lecture, British Academy (London): Feb. 1998 Barkham Scholar, University of Vermont: April, 1998 Journal of American Studies Lecture, British Association for American Studies, Glasgow, Scotland: March, 1999 Joseph S. Schick Lecture, Indiana State University: Sept. 1999 Papers Delivered"Cotton Mather's Magnalia," Modern Language Association, 1965; Drew University, 1965."Symbolism and American Puritanism," University of California at San Diego, 1967. "American Puritan Historiography," University of California at Riverside, 1968; New York University, 1971. "Understanding the Puritans: A Critique," Organization of American Historians, 1969. "The Image of America," Modern Language Association, 1971. "Huckleberry Finn Reconsidered," Princeton University, 1971. "The Strategy of Compensation in Cotton Mather's Diaries," North-East Modern Languages Association, 1972. "Art and Myth in Melville's Pierre," State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1972. "Faulkner's Light in August," Princeton University, 1972. "The Concept of the Representative American," Harvard University, 1972; Yale University, 1972; Columbia University Seminar in Early American History, 1973; Hobart and William Smith Colleges, 1973; Queens College, 1973; Boston University, 1973. "Emerson the Prophet," Yale University, 1975. "Colonial Puritan Rhetoric and the Discovery of American Identity," Cornell University, 1975; University of Pennsylvania, 1975; Thomas More College, 1975. "Literature and Anthropology" (two lectures), Columbia University, 1975. "The Post-Revolutionary Reassessment of the American Revolution," American Church History Society, 1975. "Revolution and the American Imagination," State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1975; Columbia University, 1975; Yale University, 1975. "Bancroft's View of Revolution," Yale University, 1976. "Women in Puritan New England," Temple University, 1976. "Puritanism in America," Swarthmore College, 1976. "The Scarlet Letter and the Revolution of 1848," National Humanities Institute (New Haven), 1976; University of Pennsylvania, 1976; Yale University, 1976; Albertus Magnus College, 1976. "The Intellectual and Cultural Context of the Puritan Errand," Cornell University, 1976. "How the Puritans Won the American Revolution," Washington University, 1976; University of Pennsylvania, 1976; San Diego State University, 1976; Claremont Graduate School, 1976; Bread Loaf School of English, 1976; University of San Francisco, 1976; Lehigh University, 1976; Boston Public Library, 1976; West Point Military Academy, 1976; University of Notre Dame, 1976. "New Ways of Interpreting American Identity: A Critique," Syracuse University, 1976. "Puritanism in the American Revolution," Williamsburg, Virginia, 1976 (Bicentennial Conference of the Institute of Early American History and Culture). "America's 'Mythique,'" Yale University, 1977. "Statement in Support of H. J. Res. 639," House Subcommittee on Select Education, N.Y.C., December, 1977. "Rhetoric, History, and the Puritan Errand," Symposium on Intellectual History: Wingspread, Wisconsin, December, 1977. "Perry Miller and the Puritan Errand," Manhattanville College, 1977. "The Idea of America's Mission, From Revival to Revolution," Middlebury College, 1978. "A Brief Reappraisal of New England's Errand into the Wilderness," CEA, Boston, 1978; University of Michigan, 1978; Kent State University, 1978. "Critique: Puritanism in England and America," American Historical Association, 1978. "Puritan Origins Reconsidered," Stanford University, 1978; Marshall University, 1980. "The Rhetoric and Rituals of America," University of Toronto, 1978. "The Cultural Context of the American Renaissance," University of Washington, 1978. "The July Fourth Oration," Columbia University, 1978. "The Rites of Assent in America," University of Minnesota, 1978; George Washington University, 1978; University of New Mexico, 1978; University of California, Davis, 1979; UCLA, 1979; CalTech, 1979; Colby College, 1979. "The Ritual of American Consensus," Keynote Address, Canadian Association of American Studies, Montreal, 1978. "Hester Prynne, or the Heroism of Mediocrity," San Diego State University, 1979; Columbia University, 1980. "The Rites of Assent, from the Revolution to the Civil War," Northwestern University, 1979. "Melville's Ambiguities," Colby College, 1979; Haverford College, 1979. "A Tale of Two Cities on a Hill," Commencement Address, Bread Loaf School of English, 1979. "The Symbolist Mode from Edwards to Thoreau," Haverford College, 1979. "Methodology in Historical and Literary Studies," Washington University, 1979 (two lectures). "'Gravity is a Type of Love': Newton, Edwards, and Natural Supernaturalism," Haverford College, 1979. "Myth-Criticism and the Interpretation of Huckleberry Finn," Phillips Andover Academy, 1979 (two lectures). "America: Type or Archetype?" University of Ottawa, 1980. "Structures of Deconstrucction: Melville's Pierre," University of Kentucky, 1980. "Realism in 19th Century Novels," University of Kentucky, 1980. "Fusion and Fragmentation: The American Identity," Keynote Address, European Association of American Studies, Amsterdam, Holland, 1980. "Critique: The American Jeremiad," Speech Communication Association, 1980 (Symposium on "The American Jeremiad"). "The Problem of Pierre," Johns Hopkins University, 1980; University of Florida, 1982. "Mythology in Canada and the United States," Princeton University, 1980; Marshall University, 1980. "The Myth of America," Columbia University, 1980, Marshall University, 1980. "Moby Dick," Marshall University, 1980. "Three Types of American Autobiography," Plenary Session, French Association of American Studies, Bordeaux, 1981. "Rhetoric and Authority in 17th Century New England," Ecole Des Hautes Etudes, Paris, 1981 (four lectures). "The Scriptural Basis of the American Myth," Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris, 1981; University of Coimbra, 1981; Oxford University, 1981; Free University of Berlin, 1981; American University, 1981; University of Florida, 1982; University of Southern Florida, 1982; University of California, Santa Cruz, 1982. "Winthrop's Model of Christian Charity," University of East Anglia, 1981. "Melville," Sorbonne, 1981. "Melville and Hawthorne," Univeristy of Coimbra, 1981. "American Studies," University of Lisbon, 1981. "The Puritan Election Day Sermon," Ecole Normale Superieure, 1981. "How the Puritans Discovered America," Plenary Session, Italian American Studies Association, Bologna, 1981. "How to Teach Melville's Pierre," Amherst College, 1982; Harvard University, 1982; Swarthmore College, 1982; University of Pennsylvania, 1982; Princeton University, 1982; Dartmouth College, 1983; Middlebury College, 1983; Miami University, 1983; University of Alabama (Tuscaloosa), 1984; University of Alabama (Birmingham), 1986; University of Rome, 1986. "The Myth of Adolescence in 'Young Goodman Brown,'" Miami University, 1983. "The Americanization of Hester Prynne," University of Miami, 1983; University of New Mexico, 1984; University of Georgia, 1985. "Hawthorne's Historical Imagination and the Literary Marketplace," Mt. Holyoke College, 1984. "Melville," Boston University, 1984; American Antiquarian Society, 1984; University of Frankfurt, 1984; Free University of Berlin, 1984; University of Georgia, 1985; University of Illinois, 1985; Indiana University, 1985. "Context and Continuity in American Literary History," Modern Language Association, New York, 1984. "An Anthropological Approach to Puritan Rhetoric," University of Alabama, 1984. "Context and Canon: American Literature and the Problem of History," Modern Language Association, 1984. "Response" to panel on "The American Jeremiad," Modern Language Association, 1984. "The Problem of Ideology in American Literary History," Salzburg, 1985. "American Literary History," Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, 1985. "Truth and Literature," Beijing Teacher's College, 1985. "Puritanism in America," Shandong University, 1985. "Contemporary Literary Criticism," Foreign Languages Institute, Chongching, 1985. "Postmodernist Fiction," Wuhan University, 1985. "Theories of Symbolism in the West," Fudan University, 1985. Response to a panel on "The American Jeremiad: New Directions," American Studies Association, San Diego, 1985. "Ideology and American Literature" (2 lectures), University of Texas, Austin, 1986. "The Return of Hester Prynne," University of Texas, Austin, 1986. "Representing Revolution: The Example of The Scarlet Letter," European Association of American Studies, Budapest, 1986. "Puritanism and Mythology in America," Neiman Society, Cambridge, MA, 1986. "Problems in the New American Literary History," Keynote Address, Symposium on American Literary History, Konstanz, 1986. "Reexamining Masterpieces: Changes in the American Literary Canon," Harvard University, 1986. "The A-Politics of The Scarlet Letter," University of Pennsylvania, 1986; University of Virginia, 1986; Johns Hopkins University, 1986; University of California, San Diego, 1987; University of California, Berkeley, 1987; Brown University, 1987; Wesleyan University, 1987. "Melville and the Marketplace" (2 lectures), American Antiquarian Society, 1987. "Human Nature, Freedom, and Consent," Conference on Human Nature, University of Pennsylvania, 1987. "Symbology as Ideology in The Scarlet Letter," American Antiquarian Society, 1987; Georgetown University, 1987. "The Ends of American Puritan Rhetoric," Stanford University, 1987. "Dialectic on Douglass," Dartmouth College, 1987. "The Office of The Scarlet Letter," School of Criticism and Theory, Dartmouth College, 1987. "The Biblical Basis of the American Myth," Jewish Theological Seminary, 1988. "Hawthorne and the Liberal Symbology" (3 Lectures), University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 1988. "Symbolism, Liberalism, and The Scarlet Letter," Hebrew University (Jerusalem), 1988; Bar Ilan University (Tel-Aviv), 1988. "Emerson, Individualism, and the Ambiguities of Dissent," Northwestern University, 1989; University of Chicago, 1989; Universities of California: Berkeley, Irvine, Los Angeles, 1990. "Senior Class Address," Mather House, Harvard University, 1990. "Literature and Culture," Woodrow Wilson International Center, 1990. "How Radical is American Dissent?" University of Pittsburgh, 1991. "What is the History of Literature?" University of California, Berkeley, 1991. "New Directions in American Literary Scholarship," University of North Carolina, Greensboro, 1991. "Discovering America: A Cross-Cultural Perspective," Syracuse University, 1991; Woodrow Wilson Center Washington, DC, 1991. "Four Ways of Reading a Mountain: Introducing Melville's Pierre," University of Venice, 1991. "American Studies: A Retrospective," Free University of Berlin, 1991. "The New American Studies," Vanderbilt University, 1991. "American Literature: Possible Pasts, Usable Futures" (commentary), Modern Language Association, San Francisco, 1991. "The Music of America," Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 1991; George Washington University, 1991; Concordia University, Montreal, 1992; Yale Law School, 1992; University of Tennessee, 1992. "What is Jewish About Jewish Literature?" Harvard University, 1992. "The Winthrop Variation," Northwestern University, 1992; Harvard University, 1992; University of Chicago, 1993; University of Washington, 1994; Huntington Library, 1994; University of Kansas, Lawrence, 1994; University of Texas, San Antonio, 1994. "On Eric Sundquist's To Wake the Nations," Harvard University, 1993. "Games of Chess: A Model of Cultural Studies," University of Rome, 1993; Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 1993; University of Chicago, 1993; University of Washington, Seattle, 1994; Yale University, 1994; Texas A&M, 1994; Johns Hopkins University, 1994. "'America' as Fact and Fiction," Harvard University, 1993. "Are We Post-American Studies?" Harvard University, 1994. "A Literary Approach to Interdisciplinary Studies," Texas Christian University, 1994; University of Kansas, Lawrence, 1994; University of Texas, San Antonio, 1994; University of California, Irvine, 1994. "Graduate Education," Claremont Graduate School, 1994. "A Literary Approach to Cultural Studies," Rice University, 1995; California State University, Los Angeles, 1995; Claremont Graduate School, 1995; University of California, Los Angeles, 1995. "The Question of Literary Context," University of Southern California, 1995; University of Berkeley, 1995; University of California, Riverside, 1995; University of Santa Barbara, 1995. "What's Literary About Literary Studies?" Huntington Library, California, 1995. "Culture in a Faulknerian Context," Oxford, Mississippi (Faulkner Conference), 1995. "America-Rhetoric," Institute of Politics, John F. Kennedy School of Government, 1995. "The Function of the Literary in a Time of Cultural Studies," State University of New York, Binghamton, 1996. "The Magen-David on the Dollar Bill," Hillel, Harvard, 1996. "The Scarlet Letter, A Twice-Told Tale," Hawthorne Society, 1996. "The Academic Job Market," Harvard University, 1996. "Making America: The Cultural Work of Literature," Free University of Berlin, 1996. "How the United States Became 'America'," Kenyon College, 1997. "A Model of Cultural Transvaluation: Puritanism, Modernity, and New World Rhetoric," Graduate Center, City University of New York, 1997. "Nathanael West," Barnes and Noble Bookstore, New York City, 1997. "What's Funny About Huckleberry Finn?," Lake Tahoe, Nevada, 1998; Oxford University, 1998; University of Vermont, 1998; Williams College, 1999; Colorado University, 2000; Brandeis University, 2000; Wellesley College, 2000; Dartmouth College, 2000; University of Pennsylvania, 2000; Amherst College, 2000; Marquette University, 2000; University of North Carolina, 2000. "Hawthorne," American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Cambridge, MA, 1997. "Dialogue on Huckleberry Finn" (with Justin Kaplan), American Academy of Arts and Science, Cambridge, MA, 1997. "Professionalism and Graduate Study," University of Ohio (Athens), 1998. "A Model of American Identity," British Academy (London), 1998; University of Vermont, 1998. "Individualism and Democratic Readership," Neiman Institute (Harvard), 1998. "Explaining 'America'," Neimann Institute (Harvard) 1998. "The American Humor of Huckleberry Finn," Indiana State University, 1999; University of California, Los Angeles, 2000; University of California, Berkeley, 2000; University of Texas, Austin, 2000; Claremont Graduate University, 2000; Washington University, 2000; University of Illinois, Chicago, 2000; Columbia University, 2001; Syracuse University, 2001; Reed College, 2002; Carnegie Mellon Institute, 2002; Charles University, Prague, 2003; Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic, 2003; Ostrava University, Ostrava, Czech Republic, 2003. "Introduction" to Literary History, Poetry, and Ethnicity, double panel at American Literary Association, Cambridge, MA, 2001. "American Literary History," Moscow State University, July 10, 2002. "The Myth of America," Charles University, Prague, 2003; Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic, 2003; Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic, 2003; Ostrava University, Ostrava, Czech Republic, 2003. "Democratic Aesthetics: Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter," Charles University, Prague, 2003; Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic, 2003; Ostrava University, Ostrava, Czech Republic, 2003. "Jay B. Hubbell Award Acceptance Speech" (for Lifetime Achievement in American Literary Studies), Modern Languages Association, Dec. 29, 2004. |