Karen Weyler

Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies

English

Email Address: kaweyler@uncg.edu

Education

• Ph.D. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• M.A. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• B.A. Centre College

Courses Taught

• ENG 270: Big Questions in the Humanities and Fine Arts
• ENG 372: Early American Literature
• ENG 664-01: Topics in Post-1800 Literature
• ENG 731: Studies in American Literature before 1900

Research

• Early and nineteenth-century American literature.
• Early American media, including books, newspapers, periodicals, and broadsides.
• The history of the novel.

Selected Publications

“Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experiences and the American Literature Archives.” Students in the Archives: Archival Pedagogy in Practice. Ed. Heather Fox and Amanda Stuckey. Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2026.

“Reader-Centered Periodicals and the Literary Commons.” Early American Literature 57.2 (2022): 543-48.

Collected Writings of Charles Brockden Brown: The Literary Magazine and Other Writings, 1801-1807. Volume 3. Ed. by Robert Battistini, Michael Cody, and Karen A. Weyler. Lanham, MD: Bucknell University Press and Rowman and Littlefield, 2019.

Empowering Words: Outsiders and Authorship in Early America, 1760-1815. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2013.

Intricate Relations: Sexual and Economic Desire in American Fiction, 1789-1814. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2004.