Associate Professor

office: 75 McReynolds
email: konklem@missouri.edu
office hours: By appointment

Research and teaching areas:
Native Studies and 19th-century
American Literature

Maureen Konkle

Maureen Konkle specializes in Native Studies and nineteenth-century American literature, with an emphasis on nineteenth-century Native writing and Native intellectual history since the European colonization of North America. She has published articles in American Indian Quarterly, American Literature, and Western American Literature; her book Writing Indian Nations: Native Intellectuals and the Politics of Historiography 1827-1863 is available from the University of North Carolina Press. She is at work on a historical study of Jane Johnston Schoolcraft and her family called "Our Indian Relations: The Johnston Family in Michigan, 1790-1890."

Education
PhD 1997, University of Minnesota

Selected Publications

• "Indigenous Ownership and the Emergence of U.S. Liberal Imperialism," American Indian Quarterly 32.3 (Summer 2008). Link here
• Writing Indian Nations: Native Intellectuals and the Politics of Historiography, 1827-1863 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004) www.uncpress.unc.edu

Courses Taught

• English 2300: Edgar Allan Poe
• English 3300: Survey of American Literature to 1865
• English 3490: Survey of Native Writing and Representation
• English 4310/7310: 19th c. American Literature: The West in the 19th Century
• English 4320/7320: 20th c. American Literature: Contemporary Native Novel

Selected Awards

• Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship at the Newberry Library, Chicago.

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