Sandra Gustafson
William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of English
Concurrent Professor of American Studies; Faculty Fellow of the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies; Faculty affiliate of Notre Dame's Center for Civil and Human Rights
Areas of study
- African and African American
- American
- Gender and Sexuality
- Religion and Literature
- Science, Media, and Technology
Education
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley
B.A. Cornell University
Research and teaching interests
American literature and culture, the American novel, political theory, peace studies, and the study of civil and human rights, gender and sexuality, race and ethnicity
Biography
Sandra M. Gustafson is currently writing a one-volume Introduction to American Literature for Routledge. Her previous works include Peace in the US Republic of Letters, 1840-1900 (Oxford, 2023), Imagining Deliberative Democracy in the Early American Republic (Chicago, 2011), and Eloquence is Power: Oratory and Performance in Early America (North Carolina, 2000). She is the editor of The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Vol. A (9th and 10th editions), as well as the co-editor of Reimagining the Republic: Race, Citizenship, and Nation in the Literary Work of Albion Tourgée (Fordham, 2022) and Cultural Narratives: Textuality and Performance in American Culture before 1900 (Notre Dame, 2010). She is William R. Kenan Jr. professor of English, a concurrent professor of American Studies, a faculty affiliate of Notre Dame's Center for Civil and Human Rights, and a faculty fellow at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies.
Representative publications
- Peace in the US Republic of Letters, 1840-1900 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023)
- Reimagining the Republic: Race, Citizenship, and Nation in the Literary Work of Albion Tourgée, co-edited with Robert S. Levine (New York: Fordham University Press, 2022)
- Imagining Deliberative Democracy in the Early American Republic (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011)
- Cultural Narratives: Textuality and Performance in the United States before 1900 (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2010), co-edited with Caroline F. Sloat
- Eloquence Is Power: Oratory and Performance in Early America (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, 2000)
