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Angela M. Calcaterra

Title: Associate Professor

Department: English

College: College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences

Curriculum Vitae

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Education

  • PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2012
    Major: English
    Specialization: American Literature
    Dissertation: American Indians and the Grounds of American Literary History
  • MA, University of Virginia, 2006
    Major: English
  • BA, Georgetown University, 2004
    Major: English
    Specialization: Minor in French

Current Scheduled Teaching

No current or future courses scheduled.

Previous Scheduled Teaching

ENGL 5950.707Master's ThesisSpring 2023
ENGL 5950.707Master's ThesisFall 2022
ENGL 3830.002American Literature to 1870Spring 2022 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 4220.001Contemporary North American Indigenous LiteratureSpring 2022 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 5500.001Studies in American Literature and Culture from the Beginning to 1800Fall 2021 SPOT
ENGL 4831.001Studies in the Literature of the Eighteenth Century AmericasFall 2021 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 4831.001Studies in the Literature of the Eighteenth Century AmericasSpring 2021 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 4831.301Studies in the Literature of the Eighteenth Century AmericasSpring 2021 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 3924.001Women's LiteratureSpring 2021 Syllabus SPOT
WGST 3720.001Women's LiteratureSpring 2021 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 4850.001Literature in ContextFall 2020 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 6500.001Seminar in American Literature and Culture to 1865Fall 2020 SPOT
ENGL 4450.001Special Studies in a Single or Dual Author(s)Spring 2020 Syllabus
ENGL 5680.001Studies in Global Literature and CultureSpring 2020
ENGL 5680.601Studies in Global Literature and CultureSpring 2020
ENGL 5740.001Advanced Studies in Literature and FilmSpring 2019 SPOT
ENGL 5740.601Advanced Studies in Literature and FilmSpring 2019 SPOT
ENGL 4620.001Studies in Literature and FilmSpring 2019 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 3830.003American Literature to 1870Fall 2018 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 3912.001Topics in American LiteratureFall 2018 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 4850.001Literature in ContextSpring 2018 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 6500.001Seminar in American Literature and Culture to 1865Spring 2018 SPOT
ENGL 3844.001Contemporary Native American LiteratureFall 2017 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 3831.001Introduction to the Literature of the Colonial AmericasFall 2017 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 3830.003American Literature to 1870Spring 2017 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 5500.001Studies in American Literature and Culture from the Beginning to 1800Spring 2017 SPOT

Published Intellectual Contributions

    100-entry bibliographic essay

  • Calcaterra, A. (2019). Indian Removal. Oxford Bibliographies in American Literature. Oxford University Press.
  • Book

  • Calcaterra, A.M. (2018). Literary Indians: Aesthetics and Encounter in Early American Literature. 229. University of North Carolina Press.
  • Book Chapter

  • Calcaterra, A. (2023). John Joseph Mathews, Francis La Flesche, and the Indigenous World of the North American Midcontinent. The Routledge Handbook of North American Indigenous Modernisms. Routledge.
  • Calcaterra, A.M. (2018). Bad Timing: Indigenous Reception and American Literary Style. A Question of Time: American Literature from Colonial Encounter to Contemporary Fiction. Cambridge University Press.
  • Book Review

  • Calcaterra, A.M. (2022). Review of Firekeeper's Daughter, by Angeline Boulley. 8 (1) 226-230.
  • Calcaterra, A.M. (2021). Review of They Met at Wounded Knee: The Eastmans' Story, by Gretchen Eick. Western American Literature. 56 (3-4) 342-344.
  • Calcaterra, A. (2021). Review of Authorized Agents: Publication and Diplomacy in the Era of Indian Removal. American Literary History.
  • Calcaterra, A.M. (2015). Review of In Search of First Contact: The Vikings of Vinland, the Peoples of the Downland, and the Anglo-American Anxiety of Discovery, by Annette Kolodny. Other. 45 (1) 5.
  • Calcaterra, A.M. (2014). Review of The Dividing Line Histories of William Byrd II of Westover, by Kevin Joel Berland. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies. 37 (4) 569-570.
  • Book Review Essay (of 3 related titles)

  • Calcaterra, A.M. (2014). "It Needs Not the Display of Language": Aesthetics and Politics in Early Native American Writing. Early American Literature. 49 (2) 17. University of North Carolina Press.
  • CNN Op-ed

  • Calcaterra, A. (2019). A Staggering Failure to Acknowledge Our History. CNN. https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/07/opinions/native-american-history-important-to-america-calcaterra/index.html
  • Journal Article

  • Calcaterra, A.M., Pexa, C., Anderson, E.G. (2022). Indigenous Young Adult Novels: An Introduction. Studies in the Novel. 54 (3) 265-273. Johns Hopkins University Press.
  • Calcaterra, A. (2021). Edgar Huntly's Gun Violence and Indigenous Mechanisms of Peace. PMLA.
  • Calcaterra, A. (2020). Indigenous Humanity and Early American Archives. Early American Literature. 55 (3) 781-800. Chapel Hill, NC, University of North Carolina Press. https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/49
  • Calcaterra, A.M. (2015). A Second Look at Charles Alexander Eastman. Studies in American Indian Literatures. 27 (4) 36. University of Nebraska Press.
  • Calcaterra, A.M. (2012). Locating American Indians Along William Byrd II's Dividing Line. 46 (2) 233-261. University of North Carolina Press.

Contracts, Grants and Sponsored Research

    Fellowship

  • Calcaterra, A. (Principal), "NEH Fellowship," sponsored by National Endowment for the Humanities, Federal, $45000 Funded. (2022 - 2023).
  • Calcaterra, A., "Wilbur R. Jacobs Fellowship," sponsored by The Huntington Library, Private, $3500 Funded. (2021 - 2021).
  • Calcaterra, A., "American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Fellowship," sponsored by The Newberry Library, Private, $2500 Funded. (2021 - 2021).
  • Calcaterra, A., "Wilbur R. Jacobs Fellowship," sponsored by The Huntington Library, Private, Funded. (2021 - 2021).
  • Calcaterra, A., "American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Fellowship," sponsored by The Newberry Library, Private, Funded. (2021 - 2021).
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