Angela Calcaterra

Assistant Professor

Angela Calcaterra received her Ph.D. in English from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill in 2012.  She also holds an M.A. in English (2006) from the University of Virginia and a B.A. (2004) from Georgetown University, where she graduated Summa Cum Laude. Her research interests include: Early American literature and culture; American Indian influences on American literature; decolonization studies; the relationships between oral, written, and pictorial forms; and material traces in literature. She has recently published in Early American Literature and is currently at work on two projects: an article on Dakota Sioux author Charles Alexander Eastman and a book project--titled American Indians and the Grounds of American Literary History--that traces interconnections between American Indian and Anglo-American literary forms in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. She teaches courses on early American literature, American Indian literatures, space and time in American literature, and comparative intellectual, ethical, and aesthetic traditions in North America and the circum-Atlantic world