2005 - Benjamin Franklin’s World

Featured Speakers

Amy Sturgis holds a Ph.D. in Intellectual History and specializes in the fields of Science Fiction/Fantasy, the Gothic, and Indigenous American Studies. She teaches a range of related classes for Belmont’s University College.

Carla Mulford is a Professor of English at Penn State University whose work addresses early modern studies, American studies before 1900, and contemporary Native studies. She has published widely on colonial America, often focusing on Benjamin Franklin. Her most recent book studies include Early American Writings (Oxford University Press, 2002) and Finding Colonial Americas: Essays Honoring J.A. Leo Lemay (University of Delaware Press, 2001).

Lester Olson is a Professor in the Communication Department at the University of Pittsburg. His interests include colonial America and visual rhetoric, and his most recent books are Emblems of American Community in the Revolutionary Era: A Study in Rhetorical Iconology (Smithsonian Institution Press, 1991) and Benjamin Franklin’s Vision of American Community: A Study in Rhetorical Iconology (University of South Carolina Press, 2004).

Ellen Cohn is Editor of the papers of Benjamin Franklin at Yale University and is the author of The Papers of Benjamin Franklin (Yale University Press).

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