Controversial Figures as Synecdoches: Thomas Nash's Distorted Snapshots of Puritans and Catholics

Miles Parks Grier, assistant professor of English at Queens College, City University of New York, presents on how modern culture can restructure solutions to stereotypes to create positive representations.

Bridget Orr, associate professor of English at Vanderbilt University, presents on the effects of stereotypes used in 18th-century drama performances.

Valerie Forman, associate professor at New York University, presents on the stereotypes against slave plantations in Barbados.

Kristen Block, associate professor of history at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, presents on the stereotypes against different races and ailments in the 18th-century Caribbean.