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
Profile
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." An essay collection from that conference with the title “Technology, Textuality, Subjectivity” is under consideration. Gustafson is at work on two book manuscripts:a monograph, “Forms of Democracy: Political Letters in the United States, 1815-1837,” and a second monograph, “The Virgin Mary and the Woman Warrior: Religion, Revolution, and the Emergence of Feminist Thought in Early America.” She has been the book review editor for the journal Early American Literature since January 2000.
Recent Publications
"Hendrick Aupaumut and the Cultural MIddle Ground." In Early Native Literacies in New England: A Documentary and Critical Anthology, edited by Kristina Bross and Hilary E. Wyss. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, in press.
“Literature." In Keywords of American Cultural Studies, edited by Bruce Burgett and Glenn Hendler. New York: New York University Press, in press.
“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, edited by Ralph Bauer and Jose Antonia Mazzotti. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, in press.
"Revolutionary Sensibility: The Civic Rhetoric of American Women 1760-1800." In Rhetoric, Independence, and Nationhood, edited by Stephen E. Lucas. East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, forthcoming.
"Histories of Democracy and Empire." American Quarterly. Forthcoming March 2007.
"Textual Media in Early American Studies." Early American Literature, 41 (2006): 347-364.
"Historicizing Race in Early American Studies: A Roundtable with Joanna Brooks, Philip Gould, and David Kazinjian." Early American Literature 41.2 (2006): 305-11.
“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): 205-50.
"Democratic Fictions." In A Companion to American Fiction 1780-1865, edited by Shirley Samuels, 31-39. Oxford: Blackwell, 2004.
"Morality and Citizenship in the Early Republic." American LIterary History 15.1 (2003): 172-87.
"The Americas in Writing." The William and Mary Quarterly 60.1 (2003): 207-13.
"The Tucson Summit and the Promise of Comparative Colonial Studies." Early American Literature 38.1 (2003): 127-29.
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
Contact Information
356 O'Shaughnessy Hall
(574) 631-7226
gustafson.6@nd.edu