Maureen Konkle

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Associate Professor
221 Tate Hall
Education

PhD 1997, University of Minnesota

Research and Teaching

Settler colonialism, Native and Indigenous Studies, and American Literature

Maureen Konkle specializes in settler colonialism, with emphasis on nineteenth-century Indigenous writing and Indigenous 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. Her book What Jane Knew: Anishinaabe Stories and American Imperialism 1815-1845 is forthcoming in Spring 2024, also from the University of North Carolina Press. She is currently working on an anthology of writing by the Anglo-Ojibwe Johnston family of Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan.

Selected Publications

What Jane Knew: Anishinaabe Stories and American Imperialism 1815-1845. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2024. 

"Recovering Jane Schoolcraft's Cultural Activism in the Nineteenth Century." In The Oxford Handbook of Indigenous American Literature, edited by James H. Cox and Daniel Heath Justice, 81-101. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014.

"Indigenous Ownership and the Emergence of U.S. Liberal Imperialism." American Indian Quarterly 32, no. 3 (Summer 2008): 

Writing Indian Nations: Native Intellectuals and the Politics of Historiography, 1827-1863Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004.