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Hilary Wyss
Hilary E. Wyss, Associate Professor, received her PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1998. With interests in Early American Literature, Native American Literatures, and American Studies, she is the author of numerous articles as well as Writing Indians: Literacy, Christianity, and Native Community in Early America (University of Massachusetts Press, 2000). She recently completed Early Native Literacies in New England: a Documentary and Critical Anthology, co-edited with Kristina Bross (University of Massachusetts Press, 2008) and is working on a study of early Native American responses to missionary education tentatively titled English Letters: Native American Literacies 1750-1850 for which she received an American Council of Learned Societies grant in 2003. She has served on the editorial board of the journal Early American Literature and is currently the Executive Coordinator of the Society of Early Americanists.
Outstanding Graduate Faculty Award, Auburn University Graduate Student Council, 2002
Representative Publications
- Early Native Literacies in New England: A Documentary and Critical Anthology. Contributing editor (with Kristina Bross). University of Massachusetts Press, 2008.
- Writing Indians: Literacy, Christianity, and Native Community in Early America. University of Massachusetts Press, 2000; paperback edition Spring 2003.
- “Native Women Writing: Reading between the Lines” Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature. Jubilee edition of the journal, Spring 2007: 1-7.
- “Indigenous Literacies: New England and New Spain.” The Companion to the Literatures of Colonial America, eds. Ivy Schweitzer and Susan Castillo. Blackwell Publishing. 2005: 387-401.
- “Mary Occom and Sarah Simon: Gender and Native Literacy in Colonial New England.” The New England Quarterly vol. 79.3, 2006: 387-412.