Sandra M. Gustafson
Associate Professor
Specialty: Colonial to nineteenth-century American literature and culture, performance theory (including emphases on gender, ethnicity, and postcolonialism)
Degrees: B.A., Cornell University; Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley
Sandra M. Gustafson is the author of works on early American literature and culture including Imagining Deliberative Democracy in the Early American Republic (Chicago, forthcoming May 2011), Eloquence is Power: Oratory and Performance in Early America (North Carolina, 2000), and essays on William Apess, James Fenimore Cooper, Jonathan Edwards, and Margaret Fuller. She is the editor of the MLA-affiliated journal Early American Literature, co-editor of Cultural Narratives: Textuality and Performance in American Culture before 1900 (Notre Dame, 2010), and guest editor of a special issue of the Journal of the Early Republic on political writing and literature. 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 early American literature and culture; new media, textuality, and performance; political theory; gender studies; and ethnic studies with an emphasis on early Native American writing. She is a Faculty Fellow of the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at Notre Dame.
Forthcoming and Recent Publications:
- Imagining Deliberative Democracy in the Early American Republic. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, forthcoming May 2011.
- “Cooper and the Idea of the Indian.” In Cambridge History of the American Novel. Eds. Leonard Cassuto et al. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2011.
- “Eloquent Shakespeare.” In Shakespearean Educations: Power, Citizenship, Performance. Eds. Coppélia Kahn, Heather Nathans, and Mimi Godfrey. Newark: University of Delaware Press, forthcoming 2011.
- Co-editor with Caroline F. Sloat, Cultural Narratives: Textuality and Performance in American Culture before 1900. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2010.
- “Natty in the 1820's: Creole Subjects and Democratic Aesthetics in the Early Leatherstocking Tales.” In Creole Subjects in the Colonial Americas: Empires, Texts, Identities. Eds. Ralph Bauer and Jose Antonia Mazzotti. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, 2009.
- “American Literature and the Public Sphere,” American Literary History 20. Fall 2008.
- "Hendrick Aupaumut and the Cultural Middle Ground." In Early Native Literacies in New England: A Documentary and Critical Anthology. Eds. Kristina Bross and Hilary E. Wyss. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2008.
- “Literature." In Keywords of American Cultural Studies. Eds. Bruce Burgett and Glenn Hendler. New York: New York University Press, 2007.
- "Histories of Democracy and Empire." American Quarterly 59. March 2007.
- “Daniel Webster and the Making of Modern Liberty in the Atlantic World.” In Liberty! Égalité! Independencia!: Print Culture, Enlightenment, and Revolution in the Americas, 1776-1838. Worcester, MA: American Antiquarian Society, 2007.
- "Textual Media in Early American Studies." Early American Literature 41.2. Summer 2006.
- "Historicizing Race in Early American Studies: A Roundtable with Joanna Brooks, Philip Gould, and David Kazinjian." Early American Literature 41.2. Summer 2006.
- “The Emerging Media of Early America.” The 2005 James Russell Wiggins Lecture in the History of the Book in American Culture. Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society 115. 2005.
Recent Honors and Awards
- Elected to the Council of the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, May 2009
- 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
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Contact Information
277 Decio Faculty Hall
(574) 631-7788
gustafson.6@nd.edu
Postal address
Department of English
356 O’Shaughnessy
Notre Dame, IN 46556
