The following American Studies Seminar research papers were written by students in the 1978 seminar, "Literature and Society in Jacksonian America: Writers Confront the Marketplace," under the supervision of Stephen Nissenbaum.

• "The Author's Mask: Anonymity and Pseudonymity, 1800-1860," by Angela Von Laue
• "The Batchelor Behind the Reveries," by Patrick Fitzgerald
• "Caroline Gilman, Editor and Author," by Betsy Steigerwald
• "The commercialization of Uncle Tom's Cabin" by Barbara Ring
• "Horace Waters and the Hymnal in Jacksonian America: The Popularization of Religious Music," by George A. Ashur
• "The Jacksonian Magazine Editor: Man in the Middle," by Brian David Huntley
• "The Jacksonian Satirist as Literary Entrepreneur," by William Adrian
• "The Pathfinder: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow," by Roger M. Anderson
• "The poet as Editor: Park Benjamin and the Birth of Romanticism," by John J. Valente, Jr.