Patrick Brancaccio


Publications

"A for Androgyny," Review of Monica M. Elbert, "Encoding the Letter "A": Gender and Authority in Hawthorne's Early Fiction. Nathaniel Hawthorne Review (Fall, 1991).

"Restructuring the Renaissance," Review of David. S. Reynolds, Beneath the American Renaissance. American Quarterly (December, 1988).

"Emma Abigail Salomons: Hawthorne's Miriam Identified." Nathaniel Hawthorne Journal 78 (March 1984).

"'Chiefly About War Matters': Hawthorne's Reluctant Prophesy." Essex Institute Historical Collections (January, 1982).

"'The Black Man's Paradise': Hawthorne's Editing of the Journal of an African Cruiser." New England Quarterly (March, 1980).

"American Studies in Madagascar," American Studies International, Spring, 1976.

"The Origins of Rhodesia: The Novels of Stanlake Samkange." Ba-Shiru: University of Wisconsin Studies in African Literature (Summer, 1978).

"Hawthorne and the English Working Classes, Nathaniel Hawthorne Journal 1974.

"Studied Ambiguities: Arthur Mervyn and the Problem of the Unreliable Narrator." American Literature (March 1970). Reprinted in Nineteenth Century Literature Criticism, XXII, Detroit: Gale Research Company,1989.

Papers and Lectures

"Imperialism in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness ." Seminar for " Literary Luncheon Series" conducted by Doubleday Publishers, New York City, December 13, 1996/

"Ennio Flaiano's A Time to Kill: The Italian-Ethiopian War and Popular Culture." Colby College Faculty Seminars, April, 1996.

"Barely a Name of its Own: Nationalism, Anti-Semitism, and Sexuality and Hawthorne's The Marble Faun," Hellenic American Studies Association Conference on Nationalism and Sexuality, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece, May, 1995.

Five Lectures on Shakespeare's Othello, Hemingway's Stories, and Tillie' Olson's Fiction , Visiting Professor, University of Genoa, Italy, April, 1992.

"Strindberg and Late Nineteenth Century Misogyny," Women's Studies Series, Colby College, November, 1990.

"Strindberg in Performance, London 1988." Modern Language Association annual meeting, Washington, D. C.December, 1989.

"Economic and Cultural Renewal in the Prison Literature of Ngugi Wa Thiong'o." African Literature Association Conference, Cornell University. April, 1987.

"Mark Twain, Boy/Man," Mark Twain House, Hartford, Conn. March, 1986.

"Melville and Racism" and "James Baldwin and the Atlanta Murders," Lectures delivered to the Walt Whitman Institute, University of Salamanca, Spain. March, 1986.

"Edgar Allan Poe and the Origins of the Detective Story," Henry Fielding Society, Bramwell College, England. August, 1985.

"The Dream of Womanhood in Flora Nwapa's Efuru and Idu." African Literature Association, Claremont College, April 1983.

"An End to Ideology: Pier Paolo Pasolini's Hawks and Sparrows,"" Conference on the Fantastic in Literature and Film, Florida Atlantic University, March 1982.

"'Chiefly About War Matters': Hawthorne's Reluctant Prophesy," Nathaniel Hawthorne Society, Concord, Mass. October, 1980.

"Education and Development in Madagascar," Conference on Development Strategies in Africa, Queens College, City University of New York, May, 1980.

"The Politics of Fantasy: Frank Stockton's The Great War Syndicate, " Conference on the Fantastic in Literature, Florida Atlantic University, March 1980.

"Education and Revolution in Madagascar," Dana and Bixler Scholars Convocation, Colby, College, Spring, 1976.