Kristie Hamilton

  • Associate Professor Emerita, English

Education

  • PhD, University of Texas at Austin
  • MA, Arizona State University

Teaching Interests

  • American literature and culture: colonial, 18th and 19th centuries
  • Contemporary ethnic literature
  • Women's writing
  • Sentimental and sensationalist fiction
  • Print culture Historical materialist theories of literature and culture
  • Gender studies
  • Regional literatures of the Americas

Selected Publications

Hamilton, Kristie G. “Hawthorne, Modernity, and the Literary Sketch” The Cambridge Companion to Nathaniel Hawthorne Ed. Nillington, Richard H. NY: Cambridge University Press. (2004): 99-120.
Hamilton, Kristie G. “Fauns and Mohicans: Narratives of Extinction and Hawthorne's Aesthetic of Modernity” Roman Holidays: Hawthorne, James and Others in Italy Ed. Martin, Robert K., and Person , Leland S. University of Iowa Press. (2002): 41-59.
Hamilton, Kristie G. America's Sketchbook: The Cultural Life of a Nineteenth-Century Literary Genre 1998.
Hamilton, Kristie G. “The Politics of Survival: Sara Parton's Ruth Hall and the Literature of Labor” Redefining the Political Novel: American Women Writers 1797-1901 Ed. Harris, Sharon M. University of Tennessee Press. (1995): 86-108.
Hamilton, Kristie G. “Toward a Cultural Theory of the Antebellum Literary Sketch” Genre 23. (1990): 297-323.
Hamilton, Kristie G. “An Assault on the Will: Republican Virtue and the City in Hannah Webster Foster's The Coquette” Early American Literature 24. (1989): 135-151.

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