September 22nd In a special session on Transatlantic Studies, Dr. Michael DePalma (English, Baylor) will present “Rhetorical Education for the Nineteenth-Century Pulpit: Austin Phelps and the Influence of Christian Transcendentalism at Andover Theological Seminary” and Dr. Maura Jortner (English, Baylor) “Captain Basil Hall and The…
October 20th Dr. Suzanne Bordelon (Rhetoric and Writing Studies, San Diego State) will present “‘Resolved that the Mind of Woman is not Inferior to that of Man’: Women’s Oratorical Preparation in California State Normal School Coeducational Literary Societies in the Late Nineteenth Century.”
December 7th Dr. David Clinton (Political Science, Baylor) will present “The Case of the Tamworth Reading Room: Sir Robert Peel and Civil Disorder in Early Victorian England”