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Leonard Von Morze, Assistant Professor Courses Taught Undergraduate: Colonial American Literature; Declaring Independence: Origins of U.S. Literature; Freshman English; Literature of the Atlantic; "Race" and Ethnicity in Twentieth-Century U.S. Literature; Six American Authors Graduate: American Romanticism; Books in Early Boston; Colonial American Literature Research and Teaching Interests American writing from the 17th century to the present; 18th-century Atlantic literatures; race and ethnicity; literary history and political theory Current Projects: Studies of charity in early American narrative, and of sociability and transatlantic politics in the 1790s. Publications Essays "Pitching Transatlanticism: Commerce, Race, and the Academic Marketplace." In Teaching the Transatlantic Eighteenth Century. Eds. Jennifer Frangos and Cristobal Silva. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2010. 6200 words. "Romantic Federalism: Atlantic Republican Literature Between Cosmopolitanism and Confederation. Literature Compass 6.6 (November 2009): 1127 - 1144. "Beyond the Clip: Teaching Film in the Non-Film Course." Human Architecture 6.1 (2008): 1 - 6. "Republican Centaurs: Crises of American Nationality and the Naming of a Mobile Nation." Early American Studies 4.1 (2006): 192 - 232. Other Work Encyclopedia entry: "Virtue." Encyclopedia of the American Enlightenment. Ed. Mark Spencer. New York: Continuum, 2011. 800 words. Encyclopedia entry: "Hugh Henry Brackenridge." The Literary Encyclopedia Online. Eds. Robert Clark, Emory Elliott, and Janet Todd. 2009. 4170 words. Exhibit: "Sermons, Slavery, and Scandal: The Printed Worlds of Early Boston, 1660 - 1830." Boston Public Library, Rare Books Department, 15 July - 30 September 2009. Catalog of ca. 7000 words. Read more about the exhibit here: http://mirror.www.umb.edu/ua/spotlights/bpl.html Office: Wheatley-6-091
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