Round Table: “Washington Irving’s Old Haunts and New Trajectories.” Organized by the Washington Irving Society. ALA (American Literature Association) in Boston, 21 May 2009. Moderator: Tracy Hoffman, Baylor University. Panel: John Dennis Anderson, Emerson College; Peter Antelyes, Vassar College; Chris Apap, University of Michigan; Ben Fisher, University of Mississippi; Jeffrey Insko, Oakland University; and Patricia Roylance, Syracuse University
Panel: “Washington Irving: Perspectives from Home and Abroad.” Organized by the Washington Irving Society. ALA (American Literature Association) in Boston, 23 May 2009. Chair: Chris Apap, University of Michigan. “Foreign Land: Ethnic Alienation in Irving’s History of New York,” Patricia Roylance, Syracuse University; “Narrative Economy and ‘The Money Diggers’,” Joe Conway, Washington University; “Irving’s Visit to the Alhambra: Re-imagining Spain for a Postcolonial/Imperial America,” Katherine Evans, Kings College London; and “Linguistic Patriotism: A Tour on the Prairies and American Indian Philology,” Korey Jackson, University of Michigan
Tracy Hoffman. “Washington Irving’s ‘The Bermudas’ and ‘The Widow and Her Son’: Portraying George Somers via Jourdain’s Discovery of the Bermudas and Purchas’ His Pilgrimes” presented at SEA (Society of Early Americanists) in Hamilton, Bermuda, 2 March 2009
Tracy Hoffman, “Founding Fathers: George Washington, Washington Irving, and Mohammad” presented at SCMLA (South Central Modern Language Association) in Baton Rouge, 30 October 2009
