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 the author of works on American literature and culture including Imagining Deliberative Democracy in the Early American Republic (Chicago, 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, among many others. She is the editor of The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Vol. A (9th and 10th editions) and advisory editor of the MLA-affiliated journal Early American Literature, as well as the 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. 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, she held an NEH fellowship during 2014 to work on a book about the American novel and the early peace movement, which is forthcoming from Oxford University Press. Her co-edited volume (with Robert S. Levine) Reimagining the Republic: Race, Citizenship, and Nation in the Literary Work of Albion Tourgée appears from Fordham University Press in 2022.
Representative publications
- Peace in the US Republic of Letters, 1840-1900 (forthcoming from Oxford University Press)
- 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, forthcoming 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)
