Friday, October 19 at 4:00, LC 319. The Americanist Colloquium presents: Birgit Rasmussen & Hilary Wyss
Birgit Brander Rasmussen is Assistant Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity, Race and Migration, Yale University. Her work focuses on race, writing, colonialism, and American Literature. She recently completed a book manuscript entitled Queequeg’s Coffin: Indigenous Literacies and the Making of Early American Literature (Duke University Press, 2011). Her work has appeared in anthologies and in American Literature, PMLA, Early American Literature, Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial, Mississippi Quarterly, and Journal of American Studies.
Hilary Wyss is Professor of American Studies, Auburn University. She received her PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. With interests in Early American Literature, Native American Literatures, and American Studies, she is the author of about a dozen articles and book chapters as well as English Letters and Indian Literacies: Reading, Writing, and New England Missionary Schools, 1750-1830(University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012), Writing Indians: Literacy, Christianity, and Native Community in Early America (University of Massachusetts Press, 2000) and co-editor, with Kristina Bross, of Early Native Literacies in New England: a Documentary and Critical Anthology (University of Massachusetts Press, 2008). She is currently working on the second edition of volume I of the Penguin anthology American Literature with William Cain and Lance Newman. She has served on the editorial board of the journal Early American Literature and is currently the President of the Society of Early Americanists.