Research and Teaching Fields: Early American Literature, Native American Literature, 17^th and 18^th Century Transatlantic Literature

Peer-Reviewed Articles and Book Chapters:

• “The Sachem and the Minister: Questions, Answers, and Genre Formation in the New England Missionary Project” Early American Literature, vol. 55, no. 1, 2020, pp. 21-46.

• “Recovering Indigenous Kinship: Community, Conversion, and the Digital Turn.” Afterlives of Indigenous Archives: Essays in Honor of The Occom Circle, edited by Gordon Henry Jr. and Ivy Schweitzer. University Press of New England, 2019, pp. 139-155.    

• “Apostates in the Woods: Quakers, Praying Indians, and Circuits of Communication in Humphrey    Norton’s New-England’s Ensigne.” Quakers, First Nations, and American Indians, edited by Geoffrey Plank and Ignacio Gallup-Diaz. Brill Book Series European Expansion and Indigenous Response,   2019, pp. 30-53.

Textbook Companions and Encyclopedia Entries:

• “Book of Martyrs by John Foxe (Publication of),” “Founding of the Quakers” in Great Events in Religion: Encyclopedia of Pivotal Events in Religious History. edited by Florin Curta and Andrew Holt. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC CLIO, 2016.

• “Early Native Voices from the British Colonies.” Colonial Era to the 19th Century in American Literature, edited by Laura A. Leibman. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale Researcher, 2016.

Works In Progress:

• Book Manuscript: Diplomatic Conversions: Sachems, Missionaries, and Writing Religion in Colonial New England (Under provisional contract).
• Scholarly Edition: “Tears of Repentance” and John Eliot’s “Indian Dialogues”: Indigenous Peoples and Missionaries in New England. Co-edited with Laura Stevens and Kristina Bross (Proposal is under review)

Courses Taught:

• EN 221 : American Literature through Whitman
• EN 611: Special Topics in Early American Literature