Peter Jaros Associate Professor of English
Education
Research
Grants & Awards
Publications
Presentations
Selected Recent Presentations
鈥淎 Creature of Law in the Wilderness: Irving鈥檚 Astoria.鈥 C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists. Chapel Hill. 15 March 2014.
鈥Sheppard Lee and Supernatural Law.鈥 Modern Language Association. Marriott Chicago Downtown. Chicago. 10 January 2014.
鈥淔acing History: Charles Brockden Brown, Physiognomics, and Temporality.鈥 The Revolutionary Atlantic: Acts of Alienation and Sedition, 1780-1830 (Charles Brockden Brown Society Biennial Conference). Universit茅 Paris IV鈥擲orbonne. Paris. 12 October 2013.
鈥淔ace Time: Charles Brockden Brown and the Temporalities of Physiognomics鈥; Panel Organizer: 鈥淭he Temporal Turn in Early American Perspective.鈥 Society of Early Americanists. Hyatt Regency. Savannah. 1 March 2013.
鈥淐ollective Action, Corporate Fiction, and The Confidence-Man.鈥 Modern Language Association. Sheraton Boston. Boston, 3 January 2013.
鈥淐rises of Personhood: Sheppard Lee and the 1837-38 Pennsylvania Convention.鈥 American Studies Association. Puerto Rico Convention Center. San Juan, PR, 17 November 2012.
鈥淭he Antebellum Corporation in Literature and Law: A Chapter in the Prehistory of Citizens United.鈥 Franklin & Marshall Alumni College 2012. Lancaster, PA, 1 June 2012. (Invited lecture.)
鈥淗ow to Kill a Corporation: Corporate Mortality in Law and Verse鈥; Panel Organizer: 鈥淐orporate Fictions.鈥 American Literature Association. Hyatt Regency. San Francisco, 26 May 2012.
鈥淓quiano, the Author.鈥 American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Vancouver, Canada, 17-20 March 2011.
鈥淟avater and Levinas on Traits that Withdraw.鈥 Fading Figures/Figures of Fading Colloquium. Northwestern University. Evanston, IL, 14 May 2010.
鈥淭he Swiss Atlantic? Another Look at the 鈥楢tlantic World.鈥欌 Society of Early Americanists. Hamilton, Bermuda, 4-7 March 2009.
鈥淭he Character of the Citizen: Physiognomy and Republicanism in the Early American Public Sphere.鈥 Pennsylvania Historical Association. Bethlehem, PA, 16 October 2008.
鈥溾楩airly exposed to public view鈥: Picturing Stephen Burroughs.鈥 American Literature Association. Hyatt Regency. San Francisco, 24 May 2008.
鈥淎rresting Characters: Physiognomy and Interruption鈥; Panel Chair: 鈥淪hady Characters and Sketchy Science.鈥 International Conference on Narrative. University of Texas at Austin. Austin, 2 May 2008.
Course Information
CNX 135: America from Outside
ENG 206: Studies in American Literature 1
ENG 207: Studies in American Literature 2
ENG 372: Reading Characters in American Literature
ENG 461: Making Persons in American Literature