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Sandra M. Gustafson, Ph.D.Associate Professor Department of English
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Sandra M. Gustafson is the author of Eloquence is Power: Oratory and Performance in Early America (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000) and has published essays on writers including William Apess, James Fenimore Cooper, Jonathan Edwards, and Margaret Fuller in such journals as American Quarterly and American Literary History as well as in major essay collections. She has held a Berkeley Fellowship, an Omohundro Institute for Early American History and Culture Postdoctoral Fellowship, and a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship. Her research interests include new media and textuality, performance theory, political theory, gender studies, and ethnic studies with an emphasis on early Native American writing. In June 2005 she delivered "The Emerging Media of Early America" as the James Russell Wiggins lecturer in the History of the Book in American Culture at the American Antiquarian Society, where she also hosted a conference on "Histories of Print, Manuscript, and Performance in America." With Caroline F. Sloat she co-edited the essays from the conference in the volume Cultural Narratives: Textuality and Performance in the United States before 1900 (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, forthcoming). Her monograph, Imagining Deliberative Democracy: Politics and Letters in the Early American Republic, is also forthcoming. She has begun work on a new monograph tentatively titled “The Virgin Mary and the Woman Warrior: Religion, Revolution, and the Emergence of American Feminist Writing.” She has been the editor for the journal Early American Literature since 2008.
Recent Honors and Awards
Ron Rucker Lecturer at Middlebury College, April 2006
Paul M. and Barbara Henkels Grant, 2006
James Russell Wiggins Lecturer in the History of the Book in American Culture, American Antiquarian Society, June 2005
Plenary Speaker at the Great Lakes American Studies Association Meeting, March 2005
Editorial Board, Journal of the Early Republic, since June 2005
Elected member of the American Antiquarian Society, 2003
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 2002-3
