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Jason Courtmanche
Travel Fund

 

As many of you know,
our colleague, friend, and past president of the Hawthorne Society, Jason
Courtmanche passed away earlier this year. 
To honor Jason’s memory and his dedication to the collegiality and
community fostered by Hawthorne Society conferences and events, we have started
the Jason Courtmanche Travel Fund to support graduate students, early-career
scholars, and others we might not be able to attend these events.  We will be awarding our first grants this
spring to participants in the Poe/Hawthorne Conference in Paris.  We invite donations to this fund by check
sent to our Treasurer, Michael Martin (address below), or through the PayPal
link here or below: (Note: If you had a
specific amount, just send a request through PayPal. The current denomination
is in $20, though that amount can be changed. Just contact Michael if any
questions arise) https://www.paypal.com/ncp/payment/RNAPBKQ6P3ZVG

For mail, please
indicate that your donation is to support the Courtmanche Travel Fund.

Dr. Michael Martin

Associate Professor of English, Modern Languages, and Cultural Studies

Nicholls State University

Thibodaux, LA  70301

 

“A Celebration of
Life” will be held in honor of Jason on Sunday, April 13^th at “The
Hole in the Wall Camp” in Ashford, CT.  
Details and the obituary for Jason can be found at the website for
Shoreline Cremation.  The family has
requested we send stories or memories of Jason to their address: Amy Nocton,
101 Stonemill Rd., Storrs, CT 06268.  If
Hawthorne Society members prefer, I am happy to collect anecdotes about Jason
and forward them together to Jason’s family. 

https://www.shorelinecremation.com/obituaries/Jason-C-Courtmanche?obId=34258531

 

Upcoming Events

 

This spring and
summer will be busy times for Hawthorne Society members.  We hope you can join us at some of the
following events.

 

March 30^th
6-7:30 p.m.  N.H.S. member Pierre Walker
will give a talk at The Salem Athenaeum on “The Scarlet Letter’s 175^th
Anniversary.”  For more information,
visit the Athenaeum website here.

 

April 25^th
at 2 p.m. the Hawthorne Society Virtual lecture series continues with a
talk by David Greven. More information and the Zoom link will follow in
a later email.

 

Memorial Day Weekend:
ALA, Boston and House of Seven Gables, Salem

 

May is “House of
Seven Gables Month” for the N.H.S.  We
have planned two-related events at the ALA Conference in Boston and at the
House of Seven Gables in Salem.

 

American Literature
Association, Boston, Roundtable Friday, May 23^rd

“The House of the
Seven Gables in Ink, Wood, and Stone”

 

We are very excited
about our House of Seven Gables Roundtable that will feature the Executive
Director, Dakota Russell, and the Chief Curator, Susan Baker, from the House of
the Seven Gables in Salem.  They will join
three talented young scholars giving papers on formal aspects of the novel, as
well as its relation to the restoration project that Caroline Emmerton
undertook at the start of the 20^th century.  We hope this exchange between literary
scholars and public humanities professionals will bring us new insights about
the novel and the House of the Seven Gables as a cultural institution. 

 

As part of our
on-going initiatives to engage a wider public and to participate in the work of
the public humanities, we will host our second Hawthorne Society lecture
on-site at the House of the Seven Gables in Salem.  This year Robert Levine will deliver a talk
on Uncle Tom’s Cabin and The House of the Seven Gables on Sunday,
May 25^th from 1-2 p.m.

 

To facilitate travel
from Boston and the ALA Conference, we have purchased a set of group tickets on
the new Boston Harbor, City Cruises ferry from Long Wharf in Boston to Salem.   Boston-Salem Ferry group tickets
reserved.  This 50-minute ferry departs
Long Wharf at 10:30 a.m. and returns from Salem at 4:00 p.m. on Sunday.  I’m told the views are spectacular, and it
may be the fastest way to travel from Boston to Salem. 

 

A round-trip ticket
may be purchased from us at the group rate of $50 round-trip.   To purchase a ticket, please pay here: https://www.paypal.com/ncp/payment/SJS5TL5BFSJZU  Or, email Michael Martin at [e-mail].  
In addition, you may give a check to Chuck Baraw at the conference, or
mail a check to Michael at the above address.

 

For more information
about the ferry visit https://www.cityexperiences.com/boston/city-cruises/salem-ferry/

 

 

June 16^th-19^th Herman Melville
Conference, Mystic Seaport, CT,

Several of our
members, including our President, Ariel Silver, past officer, David Greven, and
our HSG lecturer, Robert Levine, will be presenting at the Melville conference
in June.  If you are attending, we hope
to see you there!

 

 

The Poe/Paris
Conference July 1^st-July 4^th

 

Planning for the
Paris conference, to be held at three different campuses of the Sorbonne
University, continues apace.  The
Conference Program will be published in coming weeks.  For more information about the conference or
to register, visit this site https://poehawthorne2025.weebly.com/registration.html

 

 

If you have other
events or news relevant to Hawthorne Society members, please email me at [e-mail] or reply to the
Hawthorne discussion list. 

 

Chuck Baraw,
immediate past president, Nathaniel Hawthorne Society

Hawthorne Society cfp for Toronto, MLA 2026

Family Resemblances: Hawthorne’s Extended
Bloodlines”

MLA, Guaranteed Panel

MLA Conference, Toronto, 8-11 January
2026

Hawthorne’s fiction and nonfiction often pivots on family structures and climactic moments of family epiphanies, whether in “My Kinsman, Major Molineux,” or, with the budding cousinship of Hepzibah, Clifford, and Phoebe in The House of the Seven Gables. Character epiphanies are often aligned with awareness of inter or intra-familial symmetry or resemblances. Family bloodlines are like tendrils in Hawthorne’s fiction, finding new branches of relations along the way.
Hawthorne’s families often are unconventional − comprising strange pairs (eg, Chillingworth and Dimmesdale or Chillingworth and Pearl; Hepzibah and Clifford; Zenobia and Priscilla) and harrowing interactions. Even conventional families seem always to be hemmed-in somehow by some cruel force, scientific experiment, or haunted house, as in “The Birthmark” and “Rappachini’s Daughter.”In Hawthorne’s own life, his sister, Elizabeth Manning Hawthorne, was one, much like Hawthorne’s protagonists, who “always seems to avoid capture,” according to Margaret B Moore. Hawthorne’s family structures are often elusive, complicated, or unresolved, but remain crucial to developments within his fiction. As Lois A. Cuddy has noted in The Scarlet Letter, “The mother and child appear together in just about every scene in the novel, especially in those situations in which Hester must deal with other members of the community” (110). Family members, whether known or unknown in relations, come into focus especially within the public sphere, as in The Scarlet Letter or “My Kinsman, Major Molineux.” Many of Hawthorne’s histories, like The Whole Histories of Grandfather’s Chair, and his children’s stories, like  “Little Annie’s Rambles,” have implied or stated family relations at the center of their storytelling. The Nathaniel Hawthorne Society welcomes 250-300-word proposals on family relations, family resemblances, and bloodlines within Hawthorne’s corpus for this guaranteed session at MLA 2026. Mail to: [e-mail].

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Fay Elanor Ellwood, Hawthorne's Prophets: The Bible and the Creation of American Literature. Mercer UP.

https://www.mupress.org/Hawthornes-Prophets-The-Bible-and-the-Creation-of-American-Literature-P1277.aspx

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