The following American Studies Seminar research papers were written by students in the 1997 seminar, "Accounts of the Self: Autobiography and Personal Narrative in Antebellum America," under the supervision of Professor Ann Fabian.

• "The Didactic Agendas of Stephen Burroughs and Charles Brockden Brown," by Jason K. Bridgeo
• "Black Hawk: An Autobiography. Sorting Through the Fact and Fiction of a True Story," by Tamara Brunell
• "The War of 1812 Dartmoor Prison Through Personal Narratives," by John Carter
• "The Role of Alcohol in Nineteenth Century Captivity and Indian Narratives," by Rachael C. Coyne
• "The Conversion Narratives of John Arch and Catharine Brown: Tools of the Government and Missionaries," by Anthony DiBenedetto
• "Criminal Confessions: The Connection Between Miseducation and Criminal Behavior in Massachusetts, 1780-1805," by Cary Hopkins Eyles
• "Peter Williamson and the Birth of the Dime Novel," by Bob Hume
• "Davy Crockett: An American Political Legend," by Amanda Lawler
• "The World Behind the Imaginary Potter: Biographical, Literary, and Cultural Forcer Impinging Upon Melville's Novel Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile," by Marc Santos
• "The Life of the Common Soldier Through the Eyes of Shaw and Plumb Martin," by John Wholey