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Leonard Tennenhouse

Leonard Tennenhouse

Professor Emeritus of English
English
l.tennenhouse@duke.edu
Box 90015, Durham, NC 27708-0015
303 Allen Bldg, Box 90015, Durham, NC 27708

Selected Presentations & Appearances

The Early American Novel on the Move, Roundtable for the Oxford History of the Novel in English, - MLA 2014 · January 16, 2014 Invited Talk MLA,
The Conversion Effect, · January 16, 2013 Lecture SEA
Slavery and the Culture of Taste: Two Questions · January 1, 2013 Lecture MLA
The Network Novel in America · 2013 Lecture University of Delaware
The Unsettlement Novel · January 1, 2012 Lecture MLA
The Early American Novel as a Descriptive Theory · April 1, 2011 Invited Talk SEA Meeting, Philadelphia

Invited Talk
Assessing the Diasporic/Transatlantic Model for the 18th-Century American Novel · April 1, 2011 Lecture ASECS meeting in Vancouver
The Problem of Diaspora · April 2010 Invited Talk American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies,

Invited Talk; A paper responding to my interlocuters presented at a roundtable discussion of my book.
The Nation in Parts - Annual meeting of the Society for Early Americanists · 2009 Invited Talk

Invited Talk
Early American Novel - Conference on Narrative Domains · 2009 Invited Talk Oxford University Press and the University of Reading,

Invited Talk
The Form of the English and American Novel · November 7, 2008 Lecture SUNY-Binghamton
The Politics of Tragic Form · November 1, 2008 Lecture U.C. Berkeley
Faculty Seminar on "The Importance of Being English" · October 28, 2008 Lecture UCLA
Diaspora and Empire · October 27, 2008 Lecture UCLA
Transatlantic Novels · March 2008 Invited Talk American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies,

Invited Talk
The Problem of Population and the Form of American Novel - ALH Conference · 2008 Lecture University of Illinois

with Nancy Armstrong
The Tragedy of the Humorless Hero - The Structure of Feeling in the 17th Century · June 2005 Lecture Clark Library, UCLA
What was the Language of the Oppressor? - Beyond Colonialism, Early Ibero/Anglo Americanist Summitt II · 2004 Lecture
The American Man of Feeling - Atlantic Crossings, Visionary Schemes and Post National Contexts · October 2002 Lecture Charles Brockden Brown Society, Groenigen, The Netherlands
The Memoirs of Luis de Carvajal and The Autobiography of Thomas Shepherd - Early Ibero/Anglo Americanist Summit I · 2002 Lecture Tucson, AZ
The Eve-ning of the Renaissance · 1997 Lecture University of Massachusetts, Amherst
The Persistence of Gender - American Sentimentalism · 1997 Lecture Dartmouth Institute for American Literature, University of Coimbra, Portugal
The American Novel in Eighteenth-Century Britain · 1993 Lecture Tufts University
The American Richardson · 1993 Lecture Butler Endowed Lecture, SUNY-Buffalo
Atlanticism · 1990 Lecture Center for the Humanities, Wesleyan University
On Intellectual Labor - Fellows Colloquium · 1989 Lecture Center for the Humanities, University of California
The Hysterical Response - Conference on Hysteria · 1988 Lecture Trinity College
Milton and the Making of the Modern Body · 1988 Lecture Yale University
Staging History - Ohio Shakespeare Conference · 1988 Lecture
On New Historicism: We Didn't Mean What You Think We Meant When We Wrote What We Did Six Year Ago - Faculty Colloquium · 1988 Lecture Carleton College
Writing the Body - Faculty Colloquium · 1987 Lecture University of Coimbra, Portugal
Paradise Lost and the Making of Modern culture · 1987 Lecture Trinity College
Arcadian Rhetoric: The Politics of Courtship - Sir Philip Sidney: Anniversary Symposium · 1986 Lecture UCLA and UCI
Family Rites: the Aesthetics of Domestic Violence in Shakespeare's Romance · 1986 Lecture UCLA
The Case of Two Queens: Hamlet and the History of Aristocratic Body · 1986 Lecture Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies,

Service to the Profession

Chair, Foerster Prize Committee for the MLA · January 16, 2014 Other
Refereed articles for PMLA, ECF, NOVEL · 2013 Other
Editorial Boards: ECF, Diaspora, Cultural Critique, JMEMS · 2012 Other
Outside evaluator for tenure and promotion · January 12, 2010 Other
Refereed book manuscripts · 2009 Other for Princeton UP and Palgrave Macmillan
Tenure review · 2009 Other Notre Dame and University of Chicago
Refereed articles for Cultural Critique, Novel, Eighteenth-Century Fiction · 2009 Other
Editor : Editorial Board · 2008 Other Routledge Series on Literature and Society
Reviewer (Journals), Manuscript Reader · 2008 Other
Reviewer (Presses) · 2008 Other
Referee for NOVEL, Mosaic, and Cultural Critique · 2008 Other
Tenure and Promotion Reviews · 2008 Other Yale University
Tenure and Promotion Reviews · 2008 Other
Editorial Board - Eighteenth-Century Fiction · 2008 - 2015 Editorial Activities
Editorial Board - Cultural Critique · 1992 Editorial Activities
Editorial Board - Genders · 1988 - 1992 Editorial Activities
Editorial Board - Diaspora · 1988 Editorial Activities
Editorial Board · 1976 - 1983 Editorial Activities

Service to Duke

Trinity College Arts Council (University) · January 10, 2012 Committee Service
Organizer . Curriculum Innovations · January 2, 2011 - January 2, 2011 Curriculum Innovations
Admissions Committee (Department) · January 21, 2010 Committee Service
Organizer . Curriculum Innovations · January 12, 2010 - January 12, 2010 Curriculum Innovations
Job Placement Committee (Department) · January 12, 2010 Committee Service
Chair, Department of English (Department) · July 1, 2009 Committee Service Duke University
Admissions Committee (Department) · January 21, 2009 Committee Service
Organizer . Curriculum Innovations · January 21, 2009 - January 21, 2009 Curriculum Innovations
Panel on Shakespeare and Mendelssohn (University) · January 21, 2009 Committee Service Music Dept
Dept Chair · January 21, 2009 - January 21, 2009 Other