This weekend (May 22-23) I’ll make a quick jaunt out to State College, PA, for the inaugural conference of a new society for the study of 19th-century American literature.

Join us as we celebrate the publication of The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of New York on May 2, 8-10 pm, at Bowery Poetry Club.

I’m presenting today (March 23) on the sex scandal that prompted the first American novel. 12:30 pm, KJCC. details here.

I’ve shipped off the ms for the Norton Critical Edition of Charles Brockden Brown’s Wieland. The box weighed 6 lbs. Still much work in store, I’m sure, but it’s on to the next phase!

I’ll be in Albuquerque from March 18-20 for the annual meeting of the Am. Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. I’ll be on a panel discussing this book, which I reviewed here.

Cathy Kelly puts Republic of Intellect “at the top of the ‘must-read’ lists of American historians and literary scholars.” I’m blushing!

My co-blogger/co-editor, Cyrus Patell, has hooked up our A History of New York site with companion pages/feeds via Facebook and Twitter. Join us!

Check out the 2009 NYC Bloggers Holiday Guide, produced by thirteen local blogs, including Patell and Waterman’s History of New York. Lots of great gift, entertainment, and volunteering ideas for the holiday season.

for the next few days. I’ll be talking this afternoon, Oct. 29th, at Vanderbilt University, about Elizabeth Whitman’s letters to Joel Barlow, which I’ve finished editing and will be sending to a journal shortly.

Royall Tyler’s The Contrast (1787), the first play by an American to be professionally staged. The American Company produced it downtown, in the John Street Theater. I’ll be talking briefly — I hope with some early Americanist friends in tow — at the Metropolitan on October 11 following the matinee.