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Karen Weyler

Professor Karen Weyler

Contact Information
            E-mail: kaweyler@uncg.edu
            Office: MHRA 3121
            Office Phone: 336-334-4689

At UNCG Since: 1999

Education
            Ph.D. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill-1996
            M.A. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill-1990
            B.A. Centre College-1988

Research Interests
Dr. Weyler’s current book project is titled “The Imprimatur of Citizenship: Print and Public Identity in British North America and the Early Republic, 1760-1824.”  This project explores how non-elite individuals such as John Marrant, Phillis Wheatley, and Deborah Sampson negotiated the difficulties of authorship and publication as they sought to develop public identities. She is also working on a scholarly edition of Sally Sayward Barrell Keating Wood’s novel Dorval; or The Speculator (1801), for which she was awarded a fellowship from the Maine Women Writer’s Collection.

Selected Publications

  • “Feminist Criticism Roundtable.” Early American Literature (forthcoming 2009).
  • “Marriage, Coverture, and the Companionate Ideal in Early American Fiction.” Legacy 26.1 (forthcoming 2009). 
  • “An Actor in the Drama of Revolution: Deborah Sampson, Print, and Performance in the Creation of Celebrity.” Feminist Interventions in Early American Studies. Ed. Mary Carruth. Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama P, 2006. 183-93. 
  • “Literary Labors and Intellectual Prostitution: Fanny Fern’s Defense of Working Women.” South Atlantic Review 70.2 (2005): 96-131. 
  • Intricate Relations: Sexual and Economic Desire in American Fiction, 1789-1814. Iowa City: U of Iowa P, 2004. 
  • “Gender and Humor in Early America.” Special Issue Editor. Studies in American Humor 3.11 (2004): 3-4. 
  • “Race, Redemption, and Captivity in the Narratives of Briton Hammon and John Marrant.” “Genius in Bondage”:  Literature of the Early Black Atlantic. Ed. Vincent Carretta and Philip Gould. Lexington: U of Kentucky P, 2001. 39- 53. 
  • “Profile: Sally Sayward Barrell Keating Wood.” Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers 15.2 (1998): 204-11. 
  • “‘The Fruit of Unlawful Embraces’: Sexual Transgression and Madness in Early American Sentimental Fiction.” Sex and Sexuality in Early America. Ed. Merril D. Smith. New York: New York U P, 1998. 283-313.
  • “‘A Speculating Spirit’: Trade, Speculation, and Gambling in Early American Fiction.” Early American Literature 31.3 (1996): 207-42. 

Awards and Honors

  • McLean Contributionship Fellow, Library Company of Philadelphia and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 2008-09.
  • Maine Women Writers Collection Research Support Fellowship, University of New England, 2007.
  • William Reese Company Fellowship, John Carter Brown Library, Brown University, 2004-05.
  • North Carolina Humanities Council Grant, co-investigator with Mary Ellis Gibson for “Making History Real: A Seminar for High School Teachers on Southern Writing, Gender, and Race,” 2004.
  • Summer Excellence Research Award, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2001 and 2004.
  • Advancement of Teaching and Learning Grant, Teaching and Learning Center, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2001.
  • C. Hugh Holman Dissertation Award for Outstanding Dissertation in American Literature, Department of English, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1996.
  • Stephen Botein Fellowship in the History of the Book, American Antiquarian Society, 1995-96.
  • Dissertation Research Fellowship, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1995.
  • Gavin Easton Wiseman Valedictorian Prize, Centre College, 1988.
 

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