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KAREN WEYLER

Associate Professor - Research Assignment Fall 2008
E-Mail: kaweyler@uncg.edu
Phone: 334-4689
Office: 3121 MHRA

Karen Weyler joined the English Department in 1999. At the undergraduate level, she teaches classes in early and nineteenth-century American literature.  Professor Weyler also regularly teaches in the Bachelor of Liberal Studies Program. At the graduate level, Professor Weyler has taught seminars on the literature of colonialism in the New World, utopianism in American literature, the nineteenth-century literature of labor, the publishing industry and nineteenth-century American fiction, and eighteenth-century Anglo-American literature.
Professor Weyler’s research interests include early American literature, women’s writing, the history and theory of the novel, personal narratives, and the history of the book. Her essays have appeared in Early American Literature, Legacy, South Atlantic Review, Southern Quarterly, Studies in American Humor, and Studies in Short Fiction.  Her essays have also appeared in the anthologies “Genius in Bondage”: Literature of the Early Black Atlantic (Kentucky), Feminist Interventions in Early American Studies (Alabama), and Sex and Sexuality in Early America (NYU). Her first book, Intricate Relations: Sexual and Economic Desire in American Fiction, 1789-1814, was published in 2004 by the University of Iowa Press.
Professor 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 has been awarded fellowships from the John Carter Brown Library and the Library Company of Philadelphia in support of this project.  Professor Weyler 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; she has an essay on Dorval and Hannah Foster’s The Coquette forthcoming from Legacy in 2009.
Professor Weyler is on research assignment during Fall 2008.  In Spring 2009, she will be teaching English 251:  Major American Writers to 1865 and English 379:  American Women’s Writing, focusing on the colonial and early national eras.