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MLA Honored Scholar of Early American Literature, 2018

MLA Honored Scholar of Early American Literature, 2018 MLA Honored Scholar of Early American Literature, 2180 Carla J. Mulford Carla J. Mulford, professor of English at Pennsylvania State Uni - versity, has been named the Honored Scholar of Early American Literature for 2018 by the Modern Language Association’s Forum for American Lit - erature to 1800. Mulford is a distinguished scholar, editor, pedagogue, and institution builder. Trained by J. A. Leo Lemay at the University of Dela - ware, Mulford shared her mentor’s concern that the riches of the vast co -r pus of unexamined early American writing be made available for study in professionally edited formats. Her dissertation, “Joel Barlow’s Letters, 1778–1788” (1983), is an extraordinarily useful and thorough presentation of a central figure’s formative communications; it is one of the important unpublished dissertations in early American letters. She later published two significant critical scholarly editions. A best text presentation of the enormously popular Revolutionary- era satire by John Leacock, e F Th irst Book of the American Chronicles of the Times, 1774–1775 (Delaware, 1987), was followed by the pioneering collection of the manuscript and print verse of Annis Boudinot Stockton, a central figure in the women’s liter - ary sphere of the last decades of http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Early American Literature University of North Carolina Press

MLA Honored Scholar of Early American Literature, 2018

Early American Literature , Volume 53 (3) – Oct 11, 2018

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MLA Honored Scholar of Early American Literature, 2180 Carla J. Mulford Carla J. Mulford, professor of English at Pennsylvania State Uni - versity, has been named the Honored Scholar of Early American Literature for 2018 by the Modern Language Association’s Forum for American Lit - erature to 1800. Mulford is a distinguished scholar, editor, pedagogue, and institution builder. Trained by J. A. Leo Lemay at the University of Dela - ware, Mulford shared her mentor’s concern that the riches of the vast co -r pus of unexamined early American writing be made available for study in professionally edited formats. Her dissertation, “Joel Barlow’s Letters, 1778–1788” (1983), is an extraordinarily useful and thorough presentation of a central figure’s formative communications; it is one of the important unpublished dissertations in early American letters. She later published two significant critical scholarly editions. A best text presentation of the enormously popular Revolutionary- era satire by John Leacock, e F Th irst Book of the American Chronicles of the Times, 1774–1775 (Delaware, 1987), was followed by the pioneering collection of the manuscript and print verse of Annis Boudinot Stockton, a central figure in the women’s liter - ary sphere of the last decades of

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Early American LiteratureUniversity of North Carolina Press

Published: Oct 11, 2018

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