Lectures and Articles Listed Alphabetically by Author

Robert D. Arner. “The Story Of Hannah Duston: Cotton Mather To Thoreau,” American Transcendental Quarterly, 18 (1973). 19-23.

Dr. Emerson Baker, Salem State College: "Using Material Culture to Teach History and Literature," lecture delivered at The House of the Seven Gables Historic Site on September 22, 2000.

Dr. Emerson W. Baker and Dr. James Kences: "Maine, Indian Land Speculation, and the Essex County Witchcraft Outbreak of 1692," article from Maine History, volume 40, number 3, Fall 2001 (pp. 159-189).

Dr. James Bense, Department of English, Minnesota State University Moorhead, MN, "Hawthorne’s Repudiation of His Autobiographical Self in Our Old Home," paper delivered at the American Literature Association Conference on May 24, 2003.

Dr. Dominique Régis Claisse, Université de Valenciennes, France
      "The Missing Mother in The House of the Seven Gables - A study in Feminine Nature," paper delivered at the conference of the Nathaniel Hawthorne Society, celebrating the Hawthorne bicentennial in Salem, MA, July 1-4
      " The Transatlantic Quest In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Romances,"

Dr. Stephanie Carrez, France, "Symbol and Interpretation in The Scarlet Letter," paper delivered at the conference of the Nathaniel Hawthorne Society, celebrating the Hawthorne bicentennial in Salem, MA, July 1-4

Dr. Clark Davis, Dept. of English, University of Denver, "Reading and Respect: Hawthorne as Stranger," paper delivered at the conference of the Nathaniel Hawthorne Society, celebrating the Hawthorne bicentennial in Salem, MA, July 1-4

Dr. Hugh J. Dawson: "The Scarlet Letter's Angry Eagle and the Salem Custom House," article on the eagle of the Salem Custom House from the January, 1986 , vol. 122 issue of The Essex Institute Historical Collection (30-34)

David Donavel, Chair, Department of English, Masconomet Regional High School, Topsfield, MA, "Feathertop: Smoke and Mirrors"

Dr. Mark Dunphy, Lindsey Wilson College, Columbia, KY, "Home [Un]Sweet Home: Hawthorne's Fear and Loathing of Home in Our Old Home," paper delivered at the American Literature Conference, Boston, May 24-27, 2007.

Dr. Mark Dunphy, Lindsey Wilson College, Columbia, KY, "In the Wake of Hawthorne's 'Wakefield': Breaking the Habit of Cohabitation and Ennui Redux in Daniel Stern's 'Wakefield' and Andrei Codrescu's Wakefield," paper delivered at the conference of the Nathaniel Hawthorne Society, Bowdoin College, Brunswick ME, June 14, 2008.

Robert Todd Felton, author of A Journey Into the Transcendentalists' New England, "Hawthorne and Transcendentalism," lecture delivered at The House of the Seven Gables Historic Site, Salem, MA on October 4, 2006. (courtesy of R.T. Felton and Roaring Forties Press)

Diane E. Foulds, Who Scalped Whom? Historians Suggest Indians Were As Much Victims As Perpetrators.

David B. Gavenda, park guide, Salem Maritime National Historic Site: From letters and conversations with Mary Cate, friend of Miss Rebecca Manning of Salem, MA

Dr. Rita K. Gollin, SUNY, Geneseo: "Figurations of Salem in 'Young Goodman Brown' and 'The Custom-House,'" lecture delivered at Phillips Library, Peabody Essex Museum on September 23, 2000.

David Goss, "Hawthorne's Salem." Lecture delivered at the Phillips Library, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA on November 14, 2002. (courtesy of Professor David Goss)

Dr. David Greven, Assistant Professor of English, Connecticut College, New London, CT, "Passions of Hawthorne's New Eve: Female Desire in The Scarlet Letter," paper delivered at the American Literature Association Conference in 2006.

Dr. John Gruesser, Department of English, Kean University: "Playing with the (Birth) Mark: Aylmer’s Failed Attempt to Achieve Perfect Whiteness," paper delivered at the American Literature Association Conference in May, 2001.

Professor William R. Heath, Department of English, Mount Saint Mary's College: "Thomas Morton and 'The May-Pole of Merry Mount.'" (Introduction by Hawthorne in Salem Website Contributor John W. Stuart, Ph.D)

Dr. T. Walter Herbert, Department of English, Southwestern University, "Different from Himself: Hawthorne and the Masks of Masculinity," paper delivered at the American Literature Association Conference on May 23, 2003.

Dr. James Hewitson, University of Minnesota, Duluth, "Mechanization and Nationalism in 'Chiefly about War Matters,'"paper delivered at the Modern Language Association Conference in San Diego, CA, December 2003.

Dr. John L. Idol, Jr., Professor emeritus, Clemson University:
      "Illustrations of The House of the Seven Gables: A Help Or a Hindrance?," lecture delivered at The House of the Seven Gables Site on September 15, 2000.
      "Villain, Goad, or Something Else: Chillingworth as Depicted by Hawthorne and Christopher Bigby," lecture delivered on July 15, 2004.

Dr. Claudia Durst Johnson, Professor emeritus, University of Alabama: "The Secular Calling and the Protestant Ethic in The Scarlet Letter and The House of the Seven Gables," lecture delivered at The House of the Seven Gables Historic Site on October 20, 2000.

Dr. Buford Jones, Duke University: "The Persecution of Quakers and Witches in 'The Gentle Boy,' 'Young Goodman Brown,' and Related Works," lecture delivered at The House of the Seven Gables Historic Site on October 13, 2000.

Dr. David Kesterson, University of North Texas: "Hawthorne and Melville," lecture delivered at Phillips Library, the Peabody Essex Museum on September 23, 2000.

Philip McFarland, Teacher Emeritus, Concord Academy. "Hawthorne in Concord," lecture delivered at The House of the Seven Gables Historic Site on April 6, 2005.

Dr. Richard Millington, Smith College: "The Meanings of Hawthorne's Women," lecture delivered at The House of the Seven Gables Historic Site on September 8, 2000.

Ms. Margaret B. Moore, independent scholar, Athens, GA:
      "Salem and Hawthorne," lecture delivered at North Shore Community College on August 31, 2000.
      "The Mystery of Old Moodie," paper delivered at Nathaniel Hawthorne Society Summer Meeting, Northampton, Massachusetts, June 21-23, 2002.

Dr. Melissa Pennell ,University of Massachusetts, Lowell, "Subverting the Subversive: Hawthorne’s Containment of Hester Prynne in The Scarlet Letter," paper delivered at Salem State College on March 10, 2004.

Dr. Leland S. Person, University of Cincinnati: "The Scarlet Reader: Newton Arvin on Hawthorne and Melville," paper delivered at Nathaniel Hawthorne Society Summer Meeting, Northampton, Massachusetts, June 21-23, 2002.

Dr. Melinda Ponder, Pine Manor College:
     "Hawthorne and 'The Sphere of Ordinary Womanhood,'" lecture delivered at Phillips Library, the Peabody Essex Museum on October 14, 2000.
     "Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Morning of His Life His Boyhood Years and Emergence as an Artist Part One. Images: The Worlds of Hawthorne's Childhood" , September, 1981, an essay submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Master's degree in American Studies at Boston College

Jarold Ramsey, "Thoreau's Last Words-- and America's First Literatures" in Redefining American Literary History, Edited by A. LaVonne Brown Ruoff & Jerry W. Ward, Jr. The Modern Language Association, New York, 1990. pp. 52-61.

Edward C. Sampson, "The 'W' in Hawthorne's Name" from the Essex Institute Historical Collections, vol. 100, 1964, (pp. 297-299).

Dr. Arthur Riss, Salem State College, Salem MA, 'Chiefly About War Matters' and the Problem of Human Rights

Dr. Karen Sanchez-Eppler, Professor of American Studies and English, Amherst College, Amherst, MA, "To Be My Own Human Child: Parenting and Romance," paper delivered at the American Literature Association Conference on May 24, 2003.

Dr. John W. Stuart, Department of English, Manchester-Essex Regional High School, Manchester, MA
     "Christian Imagery in Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter," prepared for the Hawthorne in Salem Website, November 2002.
      Echoes of Hawthorne in Melville's Billy Budd: an essay prepared for the Hawthorne in Salem Website, November 2003
     The Hawthorne-Melville Relationship, a paper presented at the Annual Convention of the National Council of Teachers of English, Indianapolis, IN, Friday, 19 November 2004
     Hawthorne and Longfellow: A Literary Friendship, Report from a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Institute at Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, July 17- August 4, 2006, submitted September 25, 2006

Anthony Trollope: "The Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne," The North American Review. Volume 129, Issue 274, September 1879 (courtesy of Library of Congress and Cornell University Library; the American Memory Project)

Dr. Peter Walker, Department of English, Salem State College, "Why We Still Read Hawthorne 150 Years Later," delivered at Phillips Library of the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA, on April 17, 2003.

Albert Keith Whitaker, Boston College,"Neoconservative Nathaniel: Bioethics and 'The Birth-Mark'",paper delivered at the conference of the Nathaniel Hawthorne Society, celebrating the Hawthorne bicentennial in Salem, MA, July 1-4