David S. Shields
Euphemia McClintock Professor of Southern Letters
Department of English
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC 29205
[email protected]
January 15, 2014
803 629-3407
Education
Ph.D.
M.A.
Graduate Diploma
B.A.
English (with Distinction)
1982
University of Chicago
Dissertation: A History of New-England Diary Writing
English
1975
University of Chicago
st
Anglo-Irish Studies (1 H)
1974
Trinity College Dublin
English (honors)
1973
College of William & Mary
Scholarship
MONOGRAPHS
Southern Provisions: The Creation and Revival of a Cuisine
University of Chicago Press (forthcoming March 2015) 18 chapters 270,000 words
Still: American Silent Motion Picture Photography
University of Chicago Press (June 2013). 400 pages, 150 illustrations.
Turner Classic Movie Book of the Month June 2013
Runner-Up, Movie Studies Book of the Year, Huffington Post 2013
Reviews & Notices: The Guardian, Los Angeles Times, The New Yorker,
Wall Street Journal, Aperture, Sight & Sound, Philadelphia Inquirer, Big Think,
Smithsonian Blog, Film Comment
Civil Tongues and Polite Letters in British America
The University of North Carolina Press for the Institute of Early American
History and Culture, 1997. 424 pages. Cloth & Paperback.
Reviews: The New England Quarterly, South Atlantic Review, Journal of
American Studies, The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, H-Net
on line, The English Historical Review, Journal of Interdisciplinary History,
American Literary History, The William & Mary Quarterly, The Journal of
American History, American Literature
Oracles of Empire: Poetry, Politics and Commerce in British America 1690-1750
The University of Chicago Press, 1990. 295 pp. Cloth.
H-Humanities e-book edition 2010
Reviews: Times Literary Supplement, The Pennsylvania Magazine of History
and Biography, Early American Literature, American Literature, Reviews in
American History, The William & Mary Quarterly
Scholarship
Books
EDITIONS
Pioneering American Wine:
The Writings of Nicholas Herbemont, Master Viticulturist
A Southern Texts Society Edition
Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2009.
American Poetry; The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
The Library of America
New York: The Library of America, 2007.
EDITOR, ESSAY COLLECTIONS
The Golden Seed: Writings on the History and Culture of Carolina Gold Rice.
Charleston: Carolina Gold Rice Foundation, 2010.
The Material World of Anglo-America: Regionalism and Urbanity in Tidewater,
the Lowcountry and the Caribbean
Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press (Fall 2009)
Liberty! Égalité! ¡Independencia!
Print Culture, Enlightenment, and Revolution in the Americas, 1776-1838
(Co-edited with Caroline Sloat)
Worcester: American Antiquarian Society & Oak Knoll Press, 2007.
Finding Colonial Americas: Essays in Honor of J. A. Leo Lemay
(Co-edited with Carla J. Mulford)
Trenton: Associated American University Presses, 2001.
ASSOCIATE EDITOR, DATABASE
Pearson Library of American Literature
Pearson Custom Publishing, John Bryant Editor, David Shields Associate Editor
Contents: www.pearsoncustom.com/database/tocs/amlit.pdf
COLLABORATIVE HISTORIES
A History of the Book in America, Volumes 1 & 2
Editors, David D. Hall, Hugh Amory, Vol. 1; Robert Gross, Mary Kelley, Vol. 2
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006, 2010.
The Cambridge History of America Literature, Volume One 1590-1820
Sacvan Bercovitch, editor. One of five authors who wrote the volume.
New York & Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
Scholarship
Digital
RESEARCH WEBSITES (SOLE AUTHOR)
American Heritage Vegetables:
http://lichen.csd.sc.edu/vegetable/
A textual and graphic resource document the cultivation, varieties, and
cookery of the most significant American garden vegetables of the 18th
and 19th centuries. 51 Vegetables Profiled. Launched May 2011
Broadway Photographs: Photography & the American Stage
http://broadway.cas.sc.edu
A resource for students of American Theater, devotees of performing arts
photography, historians of American visual culture, curators of image
collections, and collectors of dramatic, operatic, balletic, and vaudevillian
memorabilia. This site supplies 125 cogent biographical profiles and
histories of the most artistically significant and culturally influential
theatrical photographers and studios. This site also constitutes a pictorial
directory of 240 stage performers, supplying a resonant image, or series of
images from various photographers for a performing artist as well as a
capsule biography indicating his or her significance in the chronicle of the
America stage. The Features portion of Broadway Photographs charts the
evolution of the stage picture from the studio tableaux of the 1870s to the
theatrical scene still of the 1880s and 1890s to the publicity production still
of the 20th century. 300,000 words of Text, 1,754 images. Archived by the
Library of Congress as a significant web-based American cultural
resource.
CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
“Foreword.” William Gilmore Simm’s Unfinished Civil War. Ed. David MoltkeHansen. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, April 2013. ix-xxi.
“The Eccentric Center, Selfhood and Sociability at the Heart of England’s Culture
of Enlightenment Print.” Self & Space in Early Modern European Cultures. Eds.
David Warren Sabean and Malina Stefanovska. Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press,
2012. 96-111.
“The Atlantic World, The Senses, and the Arts”The Oxford Handbook of the
Atlantic World. Eds. Nicholas Canty & Philip Morgan. Oxford University Press,
2011. 130-46.
“Poor Performance: Incompetence in Conversation, Manuscript, and Print”
Cultural Narratives: Textuality and Peformance in American Culture before
1900Eds. Sandra M. Gustafson & Carolina Sloat. Univ. of Notre Dame Press,
2010. 34-48.
SCHOLARSHIP
CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
“Franklin in the Republic of Letters,” The Cambridge Companion to Benjamin
Franklin Ed. Carla Mulford. Cambridge University Press, 2009. 50-62.
“Sons of the Dragon; or, The English Hero Revived” Creole Subjects in Colonial
America: Empires, Texts, Identities. Eds. Ralph Bauer & Jose Antonio Mazzotti.
Univ. of N. Carolina Press, 2009. 101-14.
“Cursing the Company: The Aesthetics of Social Discuss in 18th-Century Anglo
Society,” Civilizing America: Manners and Civility in American Literature and
Culture. Ed. Dietmar Schloss. Universitattsverlag Winter Heidelberg, 2008. 83-94.
“The Genius of Ancient Britain,” The Atlantic World and Virginia, 1550-1624.
Ed. Peter C. Mancall. University of North Carolina Press, OIEAHC, 2007. 489509.
“Civilization,” Keywords in American Studies. Ed. Glenn Hendler. New York
University Press, 2007
“George Washington: Publicity, Probity, and Power,” George Washington’s
South. Eds. Tamara Harvey and Greg O’Brien. Gainsville: University Press of
Florida, 2004.
“The Science of Lying.” Messy Beginnings: Postcoloniality and Early American
Studies. Eds. Melani Johar Schueller, Edward Watts, and Mikelle Smith OmariTunkara. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2003.
“Moving the Rock.” Finding Colonial Americas, eds., Carla Mulford & David
Shields. Trenton: Associated University Presses, 2001.
“The Literature of England’s Staple Colonies.” Teaching Early American
Literature. Ed. Carla Mulford. New York: The Modern Language Association,
1999.
“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.
“Reading the Landscape of Federal Americ.” Everyday Life in the Early
Republic. Ed. Catherine E. Hutchins. Winterthur, DE: Winterthur Museum, 1995.
“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.
SCHOLARSHIP
CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
“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.
“Dining Clubs and Literary Culture in Federal New York.” Federal New York: A
Symposium. New York: Fraunces Tavern Museum, 1990.
“British-American Belles Lettres.” 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.
PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES IN JOURNALS
“John Rastell’s IIII Elements.” Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America
108, 3 (September 2013), 26-39.
“Texting the Nation” [Review Article]. Modern Intellectual History 8, 2 (Summer
2011), 435-445.
“Of Strife & Sweetness: The Civil War and the Rise of Sorghum.” Repast 27, 3
(Summer 2011), 14-20.
“Prospecting for Oil.” Gastronomica: The Journal of Food and Culture 10, 4
(Nov. 2010), 24-34. Anthologized in two books.
“The Early American Salon.” Humanities; the Magazine of the National
Endowment of the Humanities (January/February 2008), 22-25.
“We Declare you Independent Whether You Wish it or Not! The Print Culture of
Early Filibusterism.” Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society Vol. 116,
2 (2006), 233-260.
“Questions, Suspicions, Speculations.” Journal of the Early Republic-Special
Issue: “Whither the Early Republic?” 24, 2 (Summer 2004), 335-342. Republished
in Wither the Early Republic; A Forum on the Future of the Field. Eds. John
SCHOLARSHIP
JOURNAL ARTICLES
Lauritz Larson and Michael A. Morrison. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania Press,
2005), 185-192.
“The World I Ate: Prophets of Global Consumption Culture.” Eighteenth
Century Life 26, 3, Festschrift for Robert Maccubbin (Summer 2002).
“Joy and Dread Among the Early Americanists.” William & Mary Quarterly, 3d
Series, Vol. 57, 3 (July 2000), 635-640.
“Anglo-American Clubs: Their Wit, Their Heterodoxy, Their Sedition.” Willliam
& Mary Quarterly 3d Series, Vol. 52, 2 (April 1994): 293-304.
“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.
“The Manuscript in the British American World of Print.” Proceedings of the
American Antiquarian Society Vol. 102, 2 (1993), 403-16.
“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.
“Mental Nocturnes: Night Thoughts on Man and Nature in the Poetry of
18thCentury America.” Pennsylvania Magazine of History & Biography 110
(April 1986), 237-58.
“The Religious Sublime and New England Poets of the 1720s.” Early American
Literature 19, 2 (1984/85), 231-48.
SCHOLARSHIP
JOURNAL ARTICLES
“The Wits and Poets of Pennsylvania: New Light on the Rise of Belles Lettres in
Provincial Pennsylvania, 1720-40.” Pennsylvania Magazine of History &
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.
ARTICLES IN REFERENCE WORKS
“Thomas Dale.” The South Carolina Encyclopedia. Ed. Walter Edgar. Columbia,
SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2006.
“Clubs.” “British-American culture.” “Colonial Southern Literature.” The
Companion to Southern Literature. Eds. Joseph M. Flora & Lucinda MacKethan.
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2002.
“Henry Brooke.” “Thomas Dale.” “Archibald Home.” “James Killpatrick.”
“Benjamin Youngs Prime.” American National Biography. New York: Oxford
University Press, 2001.
“Colonial Images of Europe and America.” Encyclopedia of American Cultural
& Intellectual History. 3 vols. Eds. Mary Kupiec Cayton, Peter W. Williams.
New York: Charles Scribners & Sons, 2001.
“Civil Society.” Encyclopedia of the American Revolution. Jack Pole & Jack P.
Greene, eds. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2nd edition, 2000.
“Henry Timrod-A bio-critical Essay.” Encyclopedia of American Poetry : The
Nineteenth Century. Rd. Eric Haralson. Chicago and London: Fitzroy Dearborn
Publishers, 1998.
“Elizabeth Graeme Fergusson.” “Janet Schaw.” “ Anna Young Smith.” ” Lucy
Terry.” Oxford Companion to Women’s Writing in the United States. New
York: Oxford University Press, 1996.
SCHOLARSHIP-DISSERTATION
“A History of Private Diary Writing in New England, 1620-1745.”
University of Chicago, 1982. Awarded Distinction. Robert Ferguson, Director.
EDITOR-JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUES
Common-place, Vol. 11, No. 3, Special Issue, Spring 2011: “American Food in
the Age of Experiment: Farming, Cooking, & Eating by the Book
http://www.common-place.org/vol-11/no-03/
Southern Literature. Special Bonus Issue, 1986: “George Ogilvie’s Carolina or the
Planter 1776: an Introduction & Reprint Edition.” “George Ogilvie’s Letters,
1774-1778.” An edition of and commentary about the major belletristic work
from the colonial south representing the creation of a plantation. Associated
letters written at Myrtle Grove plantation on the Santee River in South Carolina.
WEB PUBLICATIONS
“The Roots of Taste. ”Common-Place, Vol 11, #3 (April, 2011)
http://www.common-place.org/vol-11/no-03/shields/
“Search for the Cure: the Quest for the Superlative New World Ham.”
Common-Place, Vol 8, #1 (October, 2007):
http://www.common-place.org/vol-08/no-01/shields/
“The New World.” Uncommon Sense. Newsletter of the Omohundro Institute of
Early American History and Culture, 122, Summer 2006:
http://oieahc.wm.edu/uncommon/122/newworld.html
“The Drake Jewel.” Uncommon Sense. Newsletter of the Omohundro Institute of
Early American History and Culture, 118, Spring 2004:
http://www.wm.edu/oieahc/uncommon/118/drake.htm
“Mean Streets, Mannered Streets—Charleston.” Special Issue: Early Cities of the
Americas. Common-Place, Vol 3, #4 (July 2003):
http://www.common- place.org/vol-03/no-04/charleston/
“Aching in the Archive.”Presidential Address of the Society of Early
Americanists. March 2001:
http://www.societyofearlyamericanists.org/conference_programs/Shields_Pres
Ad2001.pdf
ARTICLES IN MASS MARKET MAGAZINES
“Charleston’s First Top Chefs.” Charleston Magazine, (December 2013)
“Gold Standard.” [Carolina Gold Rice], The Local Palatte; Food Culture of the
South (October-November, 2012), 82-90.
CURRENT BOOK PROJECTS
Boniface: the Lives of the American Chefs and Caterers
A biographical compendium covering the first age of American cookery, from
the formation of hotel and restaurant culture in the cities in the 1820s to the
Volstead Act’s destruction of fine dining in 1919. 250 biographies of kitchen
savants, both foreign-trained and American born, African-American caterers,
and cooking school matrons. No such reference currently exists. As of
1/15/2014, 108 of the projected 250 biographies have been completed. University
of Chicago Press desires first reading of the manuscript.
More Than Beautiful: Evelyn Nesbit and the Photographic Cult of Beauty
Based on 72 unpublished photographs of Nesbit taken in 1900-1905 I discovered
at Harvard University. These were taken when she was regarded as the most
beautiful model in America, this photo book will contain three essays: a history
of nude modeling in the United States; a reflection on the photographic
commodification of beauty and photographies changing recognition of what
beauties qualities were; an analysis of the various sittings that Nesbit undertook
viewed in conjunction with the theatrical productions in which she appeared.
This last essay will consider the impulse among photographers to typify kinds of
beauty and to abstract photogenics into body and face proportions. The
University of Chicago Press suggested this subject as a follow-up to STILL.
EDITORIAL OFFICES
Editor, Early American Literature 1999-2008
With Volume 34 #2 (Spring 1999), I assumed editorial control of EAL the
scholarly journal of record in the field of pre-1830 American literary studies.
With Vol. 43 #3. During my editorship the operating budget surplus increased
from $11,000 to $101,000. The average page length per issue increased from 100
pages to 225. I also arranged for the electronic publication of the journal, the
establishment of a full time book review editor, the first publication of colored
illustrations, and sponsored scholarly symposia. I also emphasized a multilingual and hemispheric scope for the subject. Published by the University of
North Carolina Press. http://uncpress.unc.edu/browse/page/6
Director, Southern Texts Society, 2009-2013
Founded in 1989 by historian Michael O’Brien, the STS sponsors a publication
program with the University of Georgia and University Press of Virginia,
presenting editions that create knowledge about the development of southern
thought and identity. The booklist I manage is posted on the UGA Press site:
http://www.ugapress.org/index.php/ugapress/results/6fe794c531f10a6c6bd1e4821931767b/
PUBLIC ACTIVITY CONCERNING FOOD
Chairman of the Board, Carolina Gold Rice Foundation
Elected Chairman in 2008. I oversee the vision and operations of the CGR
Foundation, a non-profit organization that promotes the cultivation and
preservation of landrace grains and heritage vegetables, supplying seed to
organic farmers, educating the public on the value of agricultural heritage, and
researching the history of the ingredients important in regional cuisines. I edit
the foundation’s newsletter, The Rice Paper, speak to public leaders and popular
audiences about agricultural and culinary heritage, and instigate plant
restorations. Since 2003 the foundation has repatriated the following culinary
plants: Carolina Gold Rice (2003), Sea Island Red Peas (2005), Carolina Red Sieva
Bean (2006), Benne (West-African low-oil sesame, 2008), Sea Island White Flint
Corn (2011), Rice Pea (2012), Carolina African Runner Peanut (2013), the
Bradford Watermelon (2013). We are currently engaged in the revival of the
foodways associated with the American chestnut. Media Coverage of our work
appears in the following sources:
http://gardenandgun.com/article/flavor-saviors
http://www.splendidtable.org/story/duo-brings-great-southern-flavors-back-from-nearextinction
http://www.bonappetit.com/columns/the-foodist/article/benne-oil
http://charlestonmag.com/features/southern_roots
http://www.oxfordamerican.org/articles/2010/mar/09/tiny-heirlooms/
http://southernfoodways.blogspot.com/2013/01/david-shields-on-sweet-and-sinister.html
http://blog.postandcourier.com/raskin-around/2013/12/05/bradford-watermelon-joins-slowfood-ark-taste/
http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/2009/11/16/tom-colicchio-day-1-our-afternoon-atanson-mills
I appeared on the PBS Series Mind of a Chef: Season 2, Sean Brock—episode #2,
“Seeds” and in Bernhard Bilger’s profile of Sean Brock, “True Grits,” The New
Yorker (October 31, 2012). Our restoration of the Carolina African Peanut will be
featured in The National Geographic in May 2014.
Chairman, Slow Food Ark of Taste Biodiversity Committee for the Southeast
At the request of Slow Food USA, the American branch of the global movement dedicated to the protection of historic foodways and traditional ingredients, I assumed the chairmanship of the Ark of Taste Committee for the Southeast. This body is responsible for nominating and vetting regional foods and ingredients to the global Ark of Taste—a master list of the items most in need of protection. In 2013 we successfully secured five items for the Ark of Taste: the Hoover Apple, the Atlantic Sturgeon, the Bradford Watermelon, the Chinquapin, and the Carolina African Peanut. FOOD SCHOLAR IN RESIDENCE
Blackberry Farm’s “Taste of the South” festival on January 10-13, 2013. The
Southern Foodways Alliance has published the video of my keynote lecture
treating the history of southern watermelons, “The Sweet and the Sinister,” on
Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/58103830 . An overview of the proceedings was
published in Forbes Travel Guide: http://blog.forbestravelguide.com/whatscooking-at-blackberry-farms-taste-of-the-south
2013 Cook it Raw, Charleston. An international group of innovative chefs, the
Cook it Raw community settles upon one global locale every year in which to
hold an intensive inquiry into the region’s ingredients and culinary traditions.
The 20 invited chefs absorb this information and use it to create their own take
on the locale’s cuisine. Held during a week in mid-October, Cook it Raw
garnered international coverage. I wrote the 24 page introduction to Lowcountry
cuisine used by the participants, delivered a lecture on the history of seasoning in
southern cooking, and interacted at several of the events.
http://www.cookitraw.org/?page_id=415 .
Here is a sample of some of the coverage in which I appear:
http://www.postandcourier.com/article/20131025/PC16/131029583
http://www.charlestoncitypaper.com/Eat/archives/2013/11/01/cook-it-rawall-that-and-a-bowl-of-rice
http://gardenandgun.com/blog/cook-it-raw-charleston
OTHER SCHOLARLY WORK
David S. Shields Archive of Russian Piano Scores
Special Collections, University of South Carolina Music Library
http://library.sc.edu/music/dss_fp.html
EMPLOYMENT
McClintock Professor of Southern Letters
University of South Carolina (English & History Departments)
Professor of American Literature
The Citadel (English Department)
Director, Program for the Carolina Lowcountry & the Atlantic World
College of Charleston
Associate Professor of American Literature
The Citadel (English Department)
Assistant Professor of American Literature
The Citadel (English Department)
Visiting Assistant Professor of English/American Culture
Vassar College
Instructor of English Literature
American Conservatory of Music, Chicago
2003-present
1994-2003
2000-2003
1988-199
1984-198
1980-1984
1977-1980
HONORS AND OFFICES
Nathan Meyerson Fellow, Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas
2013
http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/ransomedition/2014/spring/theatrical.html
William Dearborn Fellowship in American History, Houghton Library
2012
University of South Carolina Education Foundation Research Award
2010
http://www.sc.edu/provost/awards/2010awardsrecipientsrecent.shtml
South Carolina Governor’s Award for the Humanities
2009
http://www.sc.edu/news/newsarticle.php?nid=431#.UvokAP1Q0pE
MLA Division of American Literature Pre-1800 Distinguished Scholar
2009
James Russell Wiggins Lecturer, American Antiquarian Society
2006
http://www.americanantiquarian.org/wiggins.htm
President, Society of Early Americanists
1999-2002
Citadel Faculty Achievement Award
2001
Elected Member, American Antiquarian Society
1998
Governing Council, Institute of Early American History & Culture
1997
Phi Kappa Phi
1996
Citadel Development Foundation Faculty Research Award
1995
Samuel Foster Haven Fellowship, American Antiquarian Society
1986
ITT International Fellow
1974
Phi Beta Kappa
1973
SELECTED LECTURES AND PLENARY ADDRESSES SINCE 2000
Keynote Speaker, “From Field to Table,” Ninth Inter-disciplinary Faculty
Symposium, Chowan University, April 22, 2013. Lecture: “Recovering the
Legacies of Southern Fields and Gardens”.
“The Literature of Hunting and the Rise of Southern Ecological Consciousness,”
Inaugural lecture in the newly endowed Redd-Kelley lecture serious, The
Citadel, April 3, 2012
“The First English Description of America, Rastell’s IV Elements,” Keynote
September 2012. American Antiquarian Society.
“The First Literary Representation of America in English: John Rastell’s ‘IIII
Elements’” Symposium on Early Caribbean Literary History, St. James,
Barbados, Oct. 30, 2011
“Learning from Experience: Lowcountry Foodways Project,” Bartram Trail
Conference, 2011 Biennial Meeting, Macon GA, Oct. 20
SELECTED LECTURES
“The Repatriation of traditional Lowcountry Grains and Vegetables,” The
Sustainable Classroom, Terravita, Chapel Hill, NC, Sept. 24, 2011
“Rhys Isaacs: Reflections,” Plenary Session, 17th Annual Conference of the
Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, SUNY New
Paltz, June 18, 2011.
“Carolina Agriculture in the Age of Experiment,” S. C. Agricultural Society,
Annual Meeting, Charleston, Jan 13, 2011
“Orval Hixon, Performing Arts Photographer,” Kansas City Public Library.
Opening of the Orval Hixon Gallery, Jan. 27, 2010.
“Invading Canada,” Invited Lecture, Humanities Division, University of North
Carolina at Greensboro, Jan 29, 2010.
“The Limits of Glamour—Problems in early 20th-century Performing Arts
Photography,” Oklahoma State University, Sept. 14, 2009.
“Grapes,” The Regulated Wild. Lecture Series on Ecology by the Program in the
Carolina Lowcountry & the Atlantic World, College of Charleston, Feb. 6,
2009.
“Nicholas Herbemont: Southern Man invents American Wine,” The Liquid
South, Southern Foodways Alliance, Oct. 23-26, 2008. University of
Mississippi, Oxford, MS
“Everything Old is New Again: European Discovery and the Projects of the
Society of Antiquaries, 1572-1609,” Plenary Lecture. New Worlds, New
Publics Re(con)figuring Association and the Impact of European
Expansion, 1500-1700. Newberry Library, September 25-27, 2008.
“The Eccentric Center: Print Culture & Personality in Enlightenment England,”
Invited Lecture, Department of English, Stanford University, March 2008.
“Selfhood and Sociability at the Center of England’s Culture of Print,” Spaces of
the Self in Early Modern Culture. UCLA Center for 17th & 18th-Century
Studies, Clark Memorial Library, October 27, 2007.
“Humbug Hearts: The Canadian Filibuster and the American Suspicion of
Liberation Rhetoric,” Society of Historians of the Early American
Republic, Montreal Canada, July 21, 2006.
“We Declare You Independent Whether You Wish it or Not! The Print Culture of
Early Filibusterism,” James Russell Wiggins Lecture, American
Antiquarian Society, June 17, 2006
“The Modern Achilles,” Session: American Literary Neoclassicism. Modern
Language Association annual Meeting, December 26, 2005.
“Witness at the Creation: Literary Accounts of the Creation of a Carolina Rice
Plantation,” Carolina Gold Rice Symposium, Charleston Museum, August
17, 2005.
“Poor Performance: Failure in Print, Manuscript, and Conversation in Colonial
America,” Conference: Performance and Print Culture, American
Antiquarian Society, Worcester, MA, June 2005.
SELECTED LECTURES
“I Am Not a Queen: Abigail Adams & the Republican Court,” Graduate Faculty
of English, Cambridge University, March 4, 2005.
“Learned Culture in Antebellum America,” Jesus College, Cambridge University,
Invited Lecture, March 3, 2005
“A Disaster Beyond Calculation: Reflection on Scotland’s Empire in Central
America, 1697-1703” Plenary Address, Beyond Colonial Studies, Second
Summit of Early Ibero and Anglo-Americanists, Brown University,
Providence, R.I., Nov. 4, 2004
“Cursing the Company: the Aesthetics of Social Disgust in Anglo-America,”
Symposium: Civilizing America, Internationales Wissenschaftforum,
University of Heidelberg, June 25, 2004.
“Literary Scholarship and the Current understanding of the Early American
Public Sphere,” Annual Meeting of the Society of Historians of the Early
American Republic, Providence, RI July 23-25, 2004.
“Manoel Rivero Pardal: The Pirate Who was a Poet, 1670,” Invited lecture,
McNeil Center for Early American Studies, University of Pennsylvania,
July 29, 2004.
“Sons of the Dragon: Heroic Manhood and the Grounds of Anglo-American
Imperialism in the New World,” Plenary Lecture, University of Michigan
Symposium: Covering U. S. Empire, January 7-11, 2004.
[With Fredrika Teute] “Abigail Adam’s Court,” Society of Early Americanists
Biennial Meeting, Providence Rhode Island, April, 2003.
“Southward Ho! The 17th-century Origins of Southern Imperialism” Invited
Lecture.University of Illinois Humanities Seminar: The South. March,
2003.
“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. Given again at the University of
Delaware Material Culture Symposium, February 2003.
“I’m Not Talking About the South,” Session: Anthologizing Southern Literature.
Annual Meeting of the Southern Historical Association, New Orleans,
November 2001.
“Learned Culture in antebellum America.” Invited Lecture, Brown University
Faculty Symposium. September 24, 2001.
“The Transatlantic Trade in British Imperial Literature,” UNESCO Planning Conference
on the Transatlantic Slave Trade Project, Charleston, July, 2001.
“The Science of Lying,” Invited Visiting Lecture, University of Michigan,
February 2001.
Plenary Session—“Meet the Author: David S. Shields, Civil Tongues & Polite
Letters in British America,” SEASCS annual meeting, Huntsville, AL,
March 2, 2001.
“Aching in the Archive,” Presidential Address, Society of Early Americanists
Meeting, Norfolk, VA, March 2001.
SELECTED LECTURES
(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.
TEACHING
Course Preparations at the University of South Carolina Since 2003
GRADUATE
ENGLISH 700 Introduction to Graduate Study
ENGLISH 742 American Colonial & Federal Literature
ENGLISH 756 History of the Book in America to 1900
ENGLISH 758 Southern Literature Pre-1900 Digital Humanities Workshop
ENGLISH 840 Early Southern Literature
ENGLISH 841 Special Topics: Visions of Sustainability
ENGLISH 845A Special Topics: The Civil War as Literature
HISTORY 700a Empire & Culture in the Early English Caribbean
UNDERGRADUATE
ENGLISH 285 Themes in American Literature: Up & Down the Ladder of
Success—300 person Lecture Course with 5 TAs
ENGLISH 286 Poetry
ENGLISH 287 Survey of American Literature
ENGLISH 382 The Enlightenment
ENGLISH 420 American Literature to 1830
ENGLISH 424 American Drama
ENGLISH 426 American Poetry
ENGLISH 427 Southern Literature
ENGLISH 429Q Special Topics: Writing the Civil War
ENGLISH 429Q Special Topics: Writing the American Revolution
ENGLISH 491 Special Topics: Food Fight
HISTORY 493A American Popular Culture Before 1890
SOUTHERN STUDIES 419 Southern Foodways
SUMMER PROGRAM TEACHING
Making the Revolution in America. National Humanities Center 2008 Institute
for High School Teachers. Chapel Hill, NC June 23-July 4, 2008
DISSERTATIONS DIRECTED
Marcia Nichols, “The Man-Midwife’s Tale: Re-reading Male-Authored
Midwifery Guides in Britain and America 1750-1820” 2010
[Winner of the University’s “Outstanding Dissertation Award in the
Humanitities and Fine Arts for the period 2009-2011]
Todd Hagstette, “Dueling and Identity: Constructions of Honor Violence in
Nineteenth-Century Southern Letters” 2010.
Abigail Lundelius, “Shall We Gather at the Table” 2011.
Stephen Spratt, “When Soil Was Everything,” 2011.
Michael Weissenburg, “The After-Life of Loyalty,” in progress.