EDUCATION:

• Ph. D., American Studies, 1997, Michigan State University.
• M. A., American Studies, 1993, Michigan State University.
• Undergraduate Degrees (Zwischenpruefung), 1991, in English, German, and Spanish, University of Erlangen/Nuremberg, Germany.

SCHOLARSHIP:

MONOGRAPHS:

• The Cultural Geography of Colonial American Literatures: Empire, Travel, Modernity (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003).
  A comparative study of colonial prose narrative in British and Spanish America, 1500-1800. Finalist for the 2003 MLA Prize for a First Book; reviewed in History of Science 43 n1 (Mar2005): 101-106, The William and Mary Quarterly 62 n2 (2005): 313-315, Renaissance Quarterly 57 n4 (Winter 2004): 1468-1469, The Americas 61 n4 (April 2005): 732-733, Eighteenth-Century Studies 38 n2 (Winter 2005): 367-371, Early American Literature 40 n3 (2005): 545-553, American Literature 77 n4 (Dec. 2005): 847-849, American Literary History 18 n1 (Spring 2006): 129-143, Modern Philology, Revista Iberoamericana LXXI n213 (Oct.-Dec. 2005): 1239-1256; Comparative Literature Studies 43.1-2 (2006) 181-184; and Amerikastudien/American Studies 51.3 (2006).
• Secret New Worlds: Astrology, Prophecy, and Creole Knowledge in the early Americas (in progress).

EDITIONS/TRANSLATIONS/ANTHOLOGIES:

• The Wadsworth Anthology of American Literature, Volume One, 1492-1820: the colonial Americas, ed. by Ralph Bauer (general editor Jay Parini) (forthcoming, Boston: Thomson-Wadsworth, 2009).
• Between Cultures: Native American Traditions and the European Medium. The Wadsworth Themes in American Literature. Ed. Ralph Bauer (General editor Jay Parini). Boston: Thomson-Wadsworth, 2008).
• Spirituality, Church, and State in the Colonial Americas . The Wadsworth Themes in American Literature. Ed. Ralph Bauer (General editor Jay Parini). Boston: Thomson-Wadsworth, 2008).
• Empire, Science, and Economy in the Americas. The Wadsworth Themes in American Literature. Ed. Ralph Bauer (General editor Jay Parini). Boston: Thomson-Wadsworth, 2008).
• Contested Nations in the Early Americas, 1783-1820. The Wadsworth Themes in American Literature. Ed. Ralph Bauer (General editor Jay Parini). Boston: Thomson-Wadsworth, 2008).
• Creole Subjects: the ambiguous coloniality of early American Literatures, ed. Ralph Bauer and Jose Antonio Mazzotti (forthcoming with the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture at the University of North Carolina Press, Colonial Williamsburg and Chapel Hill. 2008).
• An Inca Account of the Conquest of Peru by Titu Cusi Yupanqui. Introduction, translation, and notes by Ralph Bauer. (The University Press of Colorado, 2005). Winner of the 2005 Colorado Endowment for the Humanities Publication Prize; reviewed in Colonial Latin American Review 17.1 (2008): 125-141; Journal of Anthropological Research 62.1 (Spring 2006): 159-160; The Americas 63.2 (2006) 302-304; Journal of Latin American Anthropology 11.2 (Nov. 2006): 502-504; Hispanic American Historical Review 87. 3 (August, 2007): 596-598 and 88.2 (May, 2008): 353-354; Bulletin of Latin American Research 27 no. 2 (2008): 274-277.
• Locations of Culture: Identity, Home, Theory (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1998). A Special Issue of The Centennial Review 42 no. 3 (Fall 1998); featuring essays by Jean Franco, Timothy Reiss, Arnold Krupat, and others.

ARTICLES

• "Thomas Jefferson and the Ibero-American Enlightenment." Accepted for publication in Dieciocho.
• "Writing as 'Khipu': Crónica de indias and Oral History in Titu Cusi Yupanqui's Account of the Conquest of Peru." Accepted for publication in Early American Mediascapes. Ed. Matt Cohen and Jeffrey Glover. Edition in progress.
• "The Question of the Third Term: Coloniality and comparative early American Studies." In Incomparable Americas: colonial American Studies after the Hemispheric Turn. Ed. Lisa Voigt and Eric Slauter (37 p. ms. submitted to editors; edition in progress)
• "Squanto: The Indian Orphan and the Mythology of American Beginnings" (38 ms pages). Submitted for publication in American Icons, ed. Guenther Leypoldt and Bernd Engler, forthcoming.
• "The 'Rebellious Muse': Time, Space, and Race in the Revolutionary Epic." In Creole Subjects: the ambiguous coloniality of early American Literatures. Ed. Ralph Bauer and Jose Antonio Mazzotti. (Forthcoming with the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture at the University of North Carolina Press, Colonial Williamsburg and Chapel Hill. 2008).
• "Introduction" (with Jose Antonio Mazzotti). In Creole Subjects: the ambiguous coloniality of early American Literatures. Ed. Ralph Bauer and Jose Antonio Mazzotti. (forthcoming with the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture at the University of North Carolina Press, Colonial Williamsburg and Chapel Hill. 2008).
• "Los grandes cometas de 1680/1681 y la política del saber criollo en la Nueva España y la Nueva Inglaterra." Revista Iberoamericana, forthcoming, 2008.
• "The Hemispheric Genealogies of 'Race': creolization and the cultural geography of colonial difference across the eighteenth-century Americas," in Hemispheric American Studies, ed. Robert Levine and Caroline Levander (New Brunswick: Rutgers Univ. Press, 2007), 36-56.
• "Atlantic Tri-angulations: teaching the eighteenth-century Americas across imperial boundaries," Dieciocho 31.1 (Spring 2007): 7-31.
• "A New World of Secrets: Occult Philosophy and Local Knowledge in the sixteenth-century Atlantic World." In Science and Empire in the Atlantic World, ed. James Delborough and Nicholas Dew (London and New York: Routledge, 2007), 99-126.
• "Of New Worlds and Old Words: colonial American Studies as spatial practice." In Geographies of American Literature. Ed. Martin Bruckner and Hsuan Hsu. (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2007), 29-60.
• "Travel, Exploration, and Empire." In A Concise Companion to English Renaissance Literature. Ed. Donna Hamilton (Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Publishers, 2006), 136-159.
• "From the Literary History to the Cultural Geography of 'Colonial American Literatures.'” The Blackwell Companion to the Literatures of Colonial America. Ed. Susan Castillo and Ivy Schweitzer (Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Publishers, 2005), 38-59.
• "Notes on the Comparative Study of the Colonial Americas: Further Reflections on the Tucson Summit." Early American Literature 38.2 (2003): 281-304.
• "'EnCountering' Colonial Latin American Indian Chronicles: Guamán Poma de Ayala's History of the 'New' World." American Indian Quarterly vol. 25 no. 2 (Spring 2001): 274-312.
• "Millennium's Darker Side: the Missionary Utopias of Franciscan New Spain and Puritan New England." In Finding Colonial America(s): Essays Honoring J. A. Leo Lemay. Ed. Carla Mulford and David Shields. Newark: Univ. of Delaware Press, 2001. 33-49.
• "Imperial History, Captivity, and Creole Identity in Francisco Núñez de Pineda y Bascuñán's Cautiverio Feliz." Colonial Latin American Review 5 (1998): 59-82.
• "Criticism on the Boundary: Postcoloniality and the 'Worlding' of Literature In: Locations of Culture: Identity, Home, Theory. Ed. Ralph Bauer (East Lansing: Michigan State Univ. Press, 1998). A Special issue of The Centennial Review 42, no. 3 (1998 Fall). 401-16.
• "The Emerson/Nietzsche Connection in Europe, 1920-1990." ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance 44 (1998): 69-94.
• "The `Principle End of the Plantation': The Praying Indian and the Politics of a New England Colonial Identity, 1630 - 1700." In The American Nation, National Identity, Nationalism. Ed. Knud Krakau. Studies in North American History, Politics, and Society. Vol. 1. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers State University Press, 1997. 55-82.
• "Creole Identities in Colonial Space: Mary White Rowlandson and Francisco Núñez de Pineda y Bascuñán." American Literature 69:4 (1997): 665-95.
• "John Eliot, the Praying Indian and the Rhetoric of a New England Errand." Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik XLIV no. 4 (1996): 331-345.
• "Between Repression and Transgression: Rousseau's Confessions and Charles Brockden Brown's Wieland." ATQ: Nineteenth-Century American Literature 10 no. 4 (Dec. 1996): 311-29.
• "Colonial Discourse and Early American Literary History: Ercilla, the Inca Garcilaso, and Joel Barlow's Conception of a New World Epic." Early American Literature 30 no. 3 (1995): 203-32.

REVIEW ESSAYS

• "Hemispheric American Studies." Forthcoming in PMLA .
• "Literary Trans-Atlanticisms." Forthcoming in American Literary History.
• "The Early Modern Ibero-American World. Forthcoming in Latin American Research Review.
• "Cosmopolitan Empires." English Studies in Canada 32 n. 4 (December 2006): 213-223.
• "Laying Claim to the Literary Borderlands: The Contested Grounds of Hispanism in the US" (Richard Kagan, Spain in America, Kirsten Silva Gruesz, Ambassadors of Culture, and Alex Krieger, We Came Naked and Barefoot: The Journey of Cabeza De Vaca Across North America). " American Literary History 16.3 (Fall 2004): 487-495 16. 3 (Fall 2004): 487-495.
• "The Postcolonial Origins of Modernity: How to Write the History of the New World. Histories, Epistemologies, and Identities in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World. By Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra. Stanford: Stanford Univ. Press, 2001." William and Mary Quarterly LIX, No. 4 (Oct. 2002): 975-980.

REVIEWS:

• "Folded Selfs: Colonial New England Writing in the World Systemby Michelle Burnham." Forthcoming in International History Review
• "Reworlding America: Myth, History, and Narrative by John Muthyala (Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2006)," forthcoming in H-Amstdy.
• "TITU CUSI YUPANQUI, History of How the Spaniards Arrived in Peru; dual-Language Edition; translated, with an Introduction, by Catherine Julien (Indianapolis/Cambridge: Hackett Publishing Company Inc., 2006);" forthcoming in Bulletin of Spanish Studies ("Hispanic Studies & Researches on Spain, Portugal & Latin America").
• "The Captive's Position: Female Narrative, Male Identity, and Royal Authority in Colonial New England by Teresa Toulouse (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007);" forthcoming in Biography.
• "Hierarchy, Commerce, and Fraud in Bourbon Spanish America, by Ruth Hill (Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2006)," Dieciocho: Hispanic Enlightenment 29.2 (September 2006): 305-308.
• "Lecturas y ediciones de crónicas de Indias. Una propuesta interdisciplinaria, by Ignacio Arellano and Fermín del Pino Díaz, eds. (Madrid, Spain: Iberoamericana, 2004)," The Americas 63.3 (2007) 452-454.
• "Bárbaros: Spaniards and Their Savages in the Age of Enlightenment, by David Weber;" Journal of Interdisciplinary History Volume 37, Number 2, Autumn 2006, pp. 288-290.
• "Geschichte und Fiktion: Zum Funktionswandel des fruehen amerikanischen Romans. By Oliver Scheiding (Paderborn, Munchen, Wien, Zurich: Schoningh, 2003);" Early American Literature 39. 3 (2004): 599-603.
• "Mimesis and Empire: The New World, Islam, and European Identities." By Barbara Fuchs. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2001;" Revista Iberoamericana 201 (2003).
• "Vielstimmige Welt. Die Werke St. John de Crevecoeurs in deutscher Sprache. By Angela Kuhk. Berlin: Lit Verlag, 2001;" Early American Literature. 36. no. 3. (2002). 347-351.
• "Unrequited Conquests: Love and Empire in the Colonial Americas. By Roland Greene. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1999." Colonial Latin American Review 10. 2 (December 2001). 7 ms. pp.
• "Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca : his account, his life, and the expedition of Pánfilo de Narváez. By Rolena Adorno & Patrick Charles Pautz. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c1999. 3 vols." Early American Literature 35 no3 (2000): 337-41.
• "The Construction and Contestation of American Cultures and Identities in the Early National Period. Ed. Udo Hebel. Heidelberg: C. Winter, 1999." South Atlantic Review (Summer 2000): 96-99.
• "Franklin and his Friends: Portraying the Man of Science in Eighteenth-Century America. Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery and the Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 1999." Eighteenth-Century Studies 33 no. 2 (Winter 1999): 285-5.
• "Imagined Empires: Incas, Aztecs, and the New World of American Literature, 1771-1876. By Eric Wertheimer." American Literature 71 (Spring 2000): 180-81.
• "Les Sauvages Américains: English and French Representations of Native Americans. By Gordon Sayre." Comparative Literature 51 no. 1 (Winter 1999): 91-93.

ENTRIES IN ANTHOLOGIES, ENCYCLOPEDIAS, ETC.

• Pearson Project in American Literature: introductions, editions, and annotations for the following entries: Christopher Columbus, Cabeza de Vaca, Garcilaso de la Vega, Gregorio de Escobedo, Gaspar de Villagra, and Samuel de Champlain.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND SERVICES

• MLA Advisory Council American Literature Section, 2007-2009.
• Program Chair: First early Ibero/Anglo Americanist Summit, Tucson, AZ, May 16-19, 2002.
• Program Co-Chair: Beyond Colonial Studies: Second early Americas Summit, Providence, RI, November 4-6, 2004
• Program Chair: Fourth Biennial Conference of the Society of Early Americanists, Alexandria, VA, 2005.
• Associate editor, Resources for American Literary Study, 2004-2006.
• General Editor, Early Americas Digital Archive, at the Maryland Institute of Technology in the Humanities.
• Member of Editorial Board: American Literature , 2005-2007.
• Member of Editorial Board: Early American Literature, 2006-2007.
• Lead Scholar (with Vincent Carey and Adele Seefe), Inquisitions and Persecutions in early modern Europe and the Americas An NEH summer institute. The University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 2005.
  
  
  

INVITED LECTURES:

• "The Great Comets of 1680/81: Prophecy and Creole Knowledge in the Colonial Americas." Codes in Conflict. University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, February 8-29, 2008
• "Writing as 'Khipu': Crónica de indias and Oral History in Titu Cusi Yupanqui's Account of the Conquest of Peru." Early American Mediascapes. Duke University, Durham, NC, 15-16 February, 2008.
• Keynote: "Transgressing Boundaries: Interdisciplinary Dialogues." SUNY Stony Brook, 16-17 February, 2008.
• "Creolization and Colonial Difference across the eighteenth-century Americas." NEH Summer Institute: "Toward a Hemispheric American Literature", Columbia University, June 22, 2007.
• "Alchemy and the Discover of America in the sixteenth-century Atlantic World." Material Cultures of the Atlantic, 1500-1800. University of Florida, Gainesville, February 2007.
• "The Magus Abroad: Occult Knowledges in the sixteenth-century Atlantic World." Atlantic Knowledges: The Sciences and the Early Modern Atlantic World. A Symposium at held at the Clark Library, sponsored by the Center for 17th- and 18th-Century Studies, UCLA, in Februrary 2005, including Antonio Barrera, Ralph Bauer, Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, Joyce Chaplin, James Delbourgo, Nicholas Dew, Richard Drayton, Júnia Ferreira Furtado, Jan Golinski, François Regourd, Neil Safier, Alison Sandman, Margaret C. Jacob and Anthony Pagden.
• "Literary History and the challenge of Comparative colonial American studies." At "The Challenges of Comparison in Colonial American Literary Studies," a symposium held at the University of Chicago and the Newberry Library, April 30-May 1, 2004, including Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, Lúcia Helena Costigan, Joan Dayan, Roland Greene, Stephanie Merrim, Walter Mignolo, José Rabasa, Gordon Sayre, and Ralph Bauer.
• ""Toward a cultural Geography of colonial American Literatures." Wiliam G. Cooper Lecture, University of Arkansas, Little Rock, 5 February, 2003.
• "Before Bacon: Natural History and the 'Second Conquest' of Spanish America." From Bacon to Bartram: Early American Inquiries into the Natural World, the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, March 22–24, 2002, Sponsored by the Omohundro Institute of early American History and Culture.
• "Shipwreck and Pilgrimage in Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca's Naufragios." Center for Renaissance and Baroque Studies, University of Maryland, October 1999.
• "'The first of my Complexion': Benjamin Banneker and the trans-Atlantic Republic of Science." Committee for Africa and the Americas, University of Maryland, November 1999.
• "Prospero's Progeny: Truth, Empire, and the Colonial Subject in early British and Spanish American Literature." Comparative Americas: Literature and Culture in the Atlantic colonial World, 1500-1800. Rutgers University, April 1999.
• "Redefining Early American Literature: Crèvecoeur, America, and the Baconian Project of History." Young Americanist Conference, Harvard University, February 1998.

PAPERS AT CONFERENCES AND PANELS CHAIRED:

• "Before "Race": Creolization and the Hemispheric Geography of Colonial Difference." American Studies Association Annual Convention. Philadelphia, PA, October 11-14, 2007. "The 'Rebellious Muse': New World Historiography and Epic in José Joaquín Olmedo's La Victoria de Junín and Joel Barlow's Vision of Columbus." XXVII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, Montreal, Canada, September 6-8, 2007.
• "The Great Comets of 1680/81: Prophecy and the Politics of Creole Knowledge in New Spain and colonial New England." Society of Early Americanists' Fifth Biennial Conference, Williamsburg, June 7-10, 2007.
• "Nikolaus Federmann and the Politics of Local Knowledge in the Welsers's El Dorado.” Colonial American Studies Association (CASO), Quito, Ecuador, June 5-8, 2007.
• "A New World of Secrets: Occult Philosophy and local knowledge in the New World Encounters." American Comparative Literature Association, Puebla, Mexico, April 19-22, 2007.
• "Beneath the 'Baroque of the Indies': The Great Comets of the 1680s and Creole Knowledge in the colonial Americas." 122nd Annual Conference of the Modern Language Association, Philadelphia, 2006.
• Participation in Roundtable Discussion: Re-Imagining "Early America" From Inside Out. Annual Conference of the American Studies Organization, Oakland, CA, October 12-15, 2006.
• "Toward a comparative study of Native American literatures: coloniality, hybridity, translation." 121st Annual Conference of the Modern Language Association, Washington DC, 2005.
• "The Question of the Third Term: Coloniality and comparative early American Studies." 2nd World Congress of the International American Studies Association. Ottawa, 2005.
• "Trans-Atlantic Knowledges: Magic, Miracle, and Mercantilism in the Conquest of America." Renaissance Society of America, annual conference. Cambridge, UK, 2005.
• "Creole Subjects in the Colonial Americas." Paper in plenary panel at the annual conference of the American Studies Association. Atlanta, Georgia, November 2004.
• "The Poetry of Francisco Núñez de Pineda y Bascuñán's Cautiverio feliz ." Colonial Americas Studies Organization. First International Interdisciplinary Symposium, Georgetown University, October 9-11, 2003.
• Panel co-chair and organizer: "Creole Identities in the Colonial Americas." First World Congress of the International American Studies Association, May 22-24, 2003. Leiden, The Netherlands.
• Panel co-chair and organizer: "Cultures of Mercantilism in the colonial Americas ." First World Congress of the International American Studies Association, May 22-24, 2003. Leiden, The Netherlands.
• Panel Organizer and Commentor: "Science and Letters in the Colonial Americas I: Renaissance and Baroque." Third Biennial Conference of the Socity of Early Americanists, Providence, RI, 1013 April, 2003.
• Panel Chair and Organizer: "Science and Letters in the Colonial Americas II: the eighteenth Century." Third Biennial Conference of the Socity of Early Americanists, Providence, RI, 1013 April, 2003.
• "'After Hakluyt': Samuel Purchas and the Reform of Knowledge in British imperial Geography." Eighth Annual Conference of the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture. University of Maryland, College Park, 14-16 June, 2002.
• "Before Bacon: Natural History and the Second Conquest of Spanish America." The Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture: "From Bacon to Bartram: Early American Inquiries into the Natural World." At the New York Museum of Natural History, 22-24 March, 2002.
• "Re-writing the Conquest of New Mexico: Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora's Mercurio Volante and the Politics of Prose. 2nd Biennial Conference of the Society of early Americanists. Norfolk, VA, 2001.
• Panel Chair and organizer: William Byrd and the Cultural Geography of Colonial Virginia.
• "Hottentots in North Carolina: Empire, Science, and the 'Invention' of the Creole in William Byrd's Histories of the Dividing Line." American Studies Association, Detroit, October 2000.
• "Cabeza de Vaca and the Culture of the Baroque." American Literature Association, Long Beach, CA, May, 2000:
• Chair, Panel "The Reception of Emerson." American Literature Association, Long Beach, CA. May 2000.
• "Of Miners and Speculators: Francis Bacon, Hector St. Jean de Crèvecoeur, and the Literary Geography o f early America." American Studies Association, Montreal, Quebec, October 1999.
• "The Darker side of Apocalypse: History and Ethnology in early New Spain and New England." Center for Millennial Studies, Boston, MA, November 1999.
• "1542: Empire and Pilgrimage in Cabeza de Vaca's Naufragios." Institute for early American History and Culture, Austin, TX, June 1999.
• Chair, Panel "Teaching Early American Literature around the World." American Literature Association, Baltimore, May 1999.
• "The Conquest of Jerusalem: History and Apocalypse in Franciscan New Spain." Society for Early Americanists, Charleston, SC, June 1999.
• "Ariel writes Caliban (or Modernity's 'Other Face'): The English Pirate in colonial Spanish American Literature. National Modern Language Association, San Francisco, December 1998.
• "Like `a Fish Between two Waters': Travel, History, and Autoethnography in Crèvecoeur and Carrió de la Vandera." Locations of Culture: Thirty-First Modern Literature Conference, Michigan State University, November 1997.
• "Comparative Apocalypse: Franciscans, Puritans, and the Indian Convert in New Spain and New England." Institute of Early American History and Culture, Winston/Salem, NC, June, 1997.
• "John Eliot, the Praying Indian, and the Rhetoric of Colonial New England Identity." What is an American? Changing Faces of Identity in American Life: First National Conference of the American Studies Program at Michigan State University, October 1996.
• "Rewriting the Imperial Frontiers: Narratives of Captivity and Piracy in Early British and Spanish America." Institute for Early American History and Culture at Boulder, Colorado, June 1996.
• "An `America Genre?' Mestizaje, Transculturation, and Creole Identity in the Captivity Narratives of Mary Rowlandson and Francisco Núñez de Pineda y Bascuñán." Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies and the Society of Early Americanists, Tallahassee, FL, February 1996.
• "New England Indian Missions, Ethnographic Representation, and the Formation of Colonial Identity in New England, 1630-1700." 19th Symposium of the Historians of the German Society of American Studies, Tutzing/Munich, February 1996.
• "Between Suppression and Transgression: Rousseau's Confessions and Charles Brockden Brown's Wieland." Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, Spokane, WA, March 1995.
• "History, Authority, and Counter-Colonial Discourse: Felipe Guamán Poma de Ayala and the Inca Garcilaso de la Vega." 11th International Symposium on Latin American Indian Literatures, Pennsylvania State University. May 1994

FELLOWSHIPS, PRIZES, AWARDS:

• 2005: Colorado Endowment for the Humanities Publication Prize for An Inca Account of the Conquest of Peru.
• 2004: Finalist for 2003 MLA Best First Book Award for The Cultural Geography of Colonial American Literatures
• 2003: NEH Grant for summer seminar at University of Maryland, College Park, July 2004: "Persecutions in early modern Cultures" (with Donna Hamilton and the Center for Renaissance and Baroque Studies, University of Maryland, College Park).
• 2002: Fellow in residence at the Maryland Institute of Technology in the Humanities (MITH).
• 2000: Summer Research Award; General Research Board, University of Maryland.
• 1998 In-residence Research Fellowship: John Carter Brown Library, Providence, RI.
• 1996 Richard Beale Davis Prize for the best essay published in 1995 in Early American Literature.
• 1995 Graduate Student Summer Research Award, College of Arts and Sciences, Michigan State University.

TEACHING AND ADVISING

At the University of Maryland:

• Fall 2007: ENGL 748D: "Occult Philosophy and Local Knowledge in the Early Modern Atlantic World.". Graduate Seminar.
• Fall 2007: ENGL 301: "Critical Methods in the Study of Literature".
• Spring 2006: ENGL 313: American Literature (a survey lecture of American literature from the beginning to the present); ENGL 370: "Junior Honors Conference"; ENGL 699:: Cultures in Contact in the colonial Americas: Bodies, Knowledge, Empires (independent study)
• Fall 2005: ENGL 601: Literary Research and Critical Contexts; ENGL 373: "Senior Honors Conference."
• Spring 2005: ENGL 313: American Literature (a survey lecture of American literature from the beginning to the present); ENGL 370: "Junior Honors Conference".
• Fall 2004: ENGL 601: Literary Research and Critical Contexts; ENGL 373: "Senior Honors Conference."
• Spring 2004: ENGL 373: "Senior Honors Conference" ENGL 430: Literature of the Americas to 1810; ENGL 370: "Junior Honors Conference";
• Fall 2003: ENGL 748B (Graduate Seminar): Mercurius Americanus: Magic, Miracles, and Metaphors in the Conquest of America, 1492-1700; ENGL 373: "Senior Honors Conference"
• Spring 2003: on leave.
• Fall 2002: on Fellowship (see above).
• Spring 2002: ENGL 431: American Literature from 1810 to 1865; ENGL 748b (Graduate Seminar): The 'Rebelious Muse: Ideology and Literature in the Revolutionary Americas.
• Fall 2001: ENGL 430: Literature of the Americas to 1810; ENGL 379: American Indian Literatures: Tradition, Protest, and Renewal.
• Spring 2001: ENGL 626 (Graduate Reading Course): American Literature to 1865 (Graduate Survey); ENGL 399: The 'Solitude' of the New World: The Marvelous, the Fantastic, and Magic Realism.
• Fall 2000: ENGL 430: Literature of the Americas to 1810; ENGL 301: Critical Methods in the Study of Literature; ENGL 495: Independent Study in Honors.
• Spring 2000: ENGL 399 H (English Honors Seminar): "Ethos, Epic, and Empire: Haunted by 'Place'"; ENGL 495: Independent Study in Honors; ENGL 430 (American Literature to 1810).
• Fall 1999: ENGL 748 (Graduate Seminar): "Prospero's Progeny: Magic Science, and the Poetics of Colonial Writing"; ENGL 431: American Literature from 1810 to 1865.
• Summer 1999: ENGL 222: American Literature: 1865 to Present.
• Spring 1999: ENGL 301:Critical Methods in the Study of Literature; ENGL 626 (Graduate Survey): American Literature to 1865.
• Fall 1998: ENGL 301: Critical Methods in the Study of Literature; ENGL 430: American Literature to 1810.
• Summer 1998: ENGL 234: Introduction to African-American Literature.

At New York University

• Spring 2007: English V41.0230: American Literature I (survey lecture of American literature from the beginning to 1865; English V 2831: Literature, Science, and Empire across the Eighteenth-Century Americas (graduate seminar)
• Fall 2006: Spanish V95.0273: Chronicles and Travel literature of the colonial New World, Spanish V95.0985: "Secrets New Worlds: Occult Philosophy and the literature of the discovery and conquest of America"

At the University of Mainz

• Summer 2006: Graduate seminar: A New World of Secrets: Magic, Science, and local knowledge in the literature of the discovery and conquest of America, 1492-1700

At Yale University:

• Spring 1998: ENGL 129: The Epic Tradition from Homer to Walcott; ENGL 118: The 'Solitude of the New World': Exotic Travel, the Fantastic, and Magic Realism.
• Fall 1997: Engl 268/ AMS 202: Seminar in Early American Studies ; ENGL 115: Introduction to Literary Studies.

At Michigan State University:

• Fall 1996: New World Encounters and Experiences in Narrative, Drama, and Essay (Engl. 203).
• Spring 1996: Narratives of "Our America": Metahistory and the Postcolonial Novel on the Border. (Engl. 204).
• Fall 1995: The Colonial Encounter in the Early Modern Period (American Thought and Language 150).
• Spring 1995: Preparation for College Writing (ATL 1004/0102).

RESEARCH DIRECTION, CHAIR:

Ph.D. Dissertations:

Ph.D. Qulifying Exams:

Masters Theses/Projects:

Undergraduate Senior Honors Theses:

RESEARCH DIRECTION, COMMITTEE MEMBER:

Doctoral Dissertation Committees:

Dissertation Qualifying Exam Commitees:

Masters Theses:

Undergraduate Senior Honors Theses:

SERVICE:

Departmental:

• 2007-2008: Comparative Literature Search committee, Salary Committee, Ph.D. Foreign Language Exam commitee, Assistant Professor Mentoring (Kari Kraus).
• 2006-2007: Ph.D. Admissions Committee (at NYU).
• 2005-2006: Comparative Literature/English merger committee, Ph.D. Foreign Language Exam commitee, Assistant Professor Mentoring (Matt Kirschenbaum).
• 2002-2003: Undergraduate Curriculum Committee; Graduate Committee; Graduate Admissions Committee (MA); Ph. D. Foreign Language Committee; Salary Review Committee; Dissertation Prize Committee.
• 2001-2002: Undergraduate Curriculum Committee; Internal Review Undergraduate Education Subcommittee; Graduate Committee; Senior 18th Century English Literature Serach Committee; Ph. D. Foreign Language Committee; TA mentoring committee.
• 2000-2001: Undergraduate Curriculum Committee; Senior 18th Century English Literature Search Committee; Graduate Placement Committee; Ph. D. Foreign Language Commitee; Salary Committee.
• 1999-2000: Coordinating Committee; MA Exam Committee; MA Admissions Committee; Ph.D. Foreign Language Exam Committee (Spanish and German); Salary Committee; Graduate Placement Committee.
• 1998-99: Coordinating Committee; MA Exam Committee; Ph.D. Foreign Language Exam Committee (Spanish); Graduate Placement Committee.

College

• 2004-2006: College PCC Committee.
• 2002: Chair re-appointment review committee

University:

• 1999-2000: Faculty Affairs Committee.
• 1998-99: Faculty Affairs Committee.