Sandra M. Gustafson
Associate Professor
Department of English
Degrees
B.A., Cornell University; Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley
Research Profile
Gustafson is the author of Eloquence is Power: Oratory and Performance in Early America (2000) and has published essays in such journals as American Quarterly and American Literary History as well as in major essay collections. She is co-editor with Caroline F. Sloat of Cultural Narratives: Textuality and Performance in the United States before 1900 (forthcoming from University of Notre Dame Press). This volume of essays is drawn from the Histories of Print, Manuscript, and Performance in America conference held at the American Antiquarian Society in June 2005, for which Gustafson was the lead organizer, and where she gave the keynote James Russell Wiggins lecture on "The Emerging Media of Early America." She has published several essays from her book project, "The Deliberative Imagination in the Early American Republic." She has been the book review editor for the journal Early American Literature since January 2000 and in May 2008 she became the editor for the journal.Contact Information
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O'Shaughnessy Hall
631-6618
gustafson.6@nd.edu
