Karen Weyler
Email: kaweyler@uncg.edu
Office: MHRA 3121
Education
Ph.D. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill-1996
M.A. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill-1990
B.A. Centre College-1988
Research Interests
Karen Weyler’s research and teaching interests are grounded in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century
American literature. She is particularly interested in the novel, periodical culture, the history of the
book, and early science fiction. She is currently working on a book titled “Urban Printscapes: One
Hundred Years of Print in the City” and is the Treasurer and Executive Secretary of the Charles Brockden
Brown Society.
Selected Publications
Books
- Collected Writings of Charles Brockden Brown: The Literary Magazine and Other Writings, 1801-1807.
Volume 3. Ed. by Robert Battistini, Michael Cody, and Karen A. Weyler. Lanham, MD: Bucknell
University Press and Rowman and Littlefield, 2019. 542 pages.
- Empowering Words: Outsiders and Authorship in Early America, 1760-1815. Athens: University of
Georgia Press, 2013. 311 pages.
- Intricate Relations: Sexual and Economic Desire in American Fiction, 1789-1814. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2004. 292 pages.
Selected Journal Articles and Book Chapters
- “Historical Essay.” Co-authored with Robert Battistini and Michael Cody. Collected Writings of
Charles Brockden Brown: The Literary Magazine and Other Writings, 1801-1807. Volume 3. Ed.
by Robert Battistini, Michael Cody, and Karen A. Weyler. Lanham, MD: Bucknell University
Press and Rowman and Littlefield, 2019. 473-498.
- “Textual Essay.” Co-authored with Robert Battistini and Michael Cody. Collected Writings of
Charles Brockden Brown: The Literary Magazine and Other Writings, 1801-1807. Volume 3. Ed.
by Robert Battistini, Michael Cody, and Karen A. Weyler. Lanham, MD: Bucknell University
Press and Rowman and Littlefield, 2019. 499-515.
- “Pedagogy, Seriality, and Sincerity: Susanna Rowson’s Magazine Fiction.” Legacy: A Journal of
American Women Writers 34.1 (2017): 162-71.
- “Reanimating Ghost Editions, Reorienting the Early American Novel.” Co-authored with
Michelle Burnham. Early American Literature. 51.3 (2016): 655-64.
- “Roundtable: 21st-Century Studies in the Early American Novel: A Roundtable on the Thirtieth
Anniversary of Revolution and the Word.” Journal of American Studies. 50.3 (2016): 802-07.
- “Introduction” to Kelroy, by Rebecca Rush. Ed. Richard Pressman. San Antonio, TX: St. Mary’s
Press, 2014.
- “The Sentimental Novel and the Seductions of Post-Colonial Imitation.” The Oxford History of
the Novel in English. Vol. 5: The American Novel from its Beginnings to 1870. Ed. by J. Gerald
Kennedy and Leland S. Person. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. 41-55.
- “‘A Tale of Our Own Times’: Early American Women’s Novels, Reprints, and the Seduction of the
Familiar.” Early American Literature. 48.1 (2013): 229-240.
- “John Neal and the Early Discourse of American Women’s Rights.” Headlong Enterprise: John
Neal and Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture. Ed. Edward Watts and David J.
Carlson. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2012. 227-46.
- “A Different Feminist Scholarship: Research Challenges in Eighteenth-Century America.” Early
American Literature 44.2 (2009): 417-21.
- “Marriage, Coverture, and the Companionate Ideal in Early American Fiction.” Legacy: A
Journal of American Women Writers 26.1 (2009): 1-25.
- “An Actor in the Drama of Revolution: Deborah Sampson, Print, and Performance in the
Creation of Celebrity.” Feminist Interventions in Early American Studies. Ed. Mary Carruth.
Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2006. 183-93.
- “Literary Labors and Intellectual Prostitution: Fanny Fern’s Defense of Working Women.” South
Atlantic Review 70.2 (2005): 96-131.
- “Race, Redemption, and Captivity in the Narratives of Briton Hammon and John
Marrant.” “Genius in Bondage”: Literature of the Early Black Atlantic. Ed. Vincent Carretta and
Philip Gould. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 2001. 39-53.
- “‘The Fruit of Unlawful Embraces’: Sexual Transgression and Madness in Early American
Sentimental Fiction.” Sex and Sexuality in Early America. Ed. Merril D. Smith. New York: New
York University Press, 1998. 283-313.
- “Profile: Sally Sayward Barrell Keating Wood.” Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers
15.2 (1998): 204-11.
- “Creating a Community of Readers: Mary Mebane’s Exploration of Difference
in Mary and Mary, Wayfarer.” Southern Quarterly 35.3 (1997): 43-54.
- “‘A Speculating Spirit’: Trade, Speculation, and Gambling in Early American Fiction.” Early
American Literature 31.3 (1996): 207-42.
- “Melville’s ‘The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids’: A Dialogue About Experience,
Understanding, and Truth.” Studies in Short Fiction 31.3 (1994): 461-69.
Selected Awards
- Course (re)Design Grant, UNCG Teaching Innovations Office, in partnership with the US
Department of Education Title III grant (Intentional Futures), 2016.
- Malcolm and Mildred Freiberg Fellowship, Massachusetts Historical Society, 2015-16.
- McLean Contributorship Fellowship, awarded jointly by the Library Company of Philadelphia and
the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 2008-09.
- Maine Women Writers Collection Research Support Fellowship, University of New England,
2007.
- William Reese Company Fellowship, John Carter Brown Library, Brown University, 2004-05.
- North Carolina Humanities Council Grant, co-investigator with Mary Ellis Gibson for “Making
History Real: A Seminar for High School Teachers on Southern Writing, Gender, and Race,”
2004.
- Research and Publication Faculty Development Award, Wake Forest University, 1996-97.
- Stephen Botein Fellowship in the History of the Book, American Antiquarian Society, 1995-96.
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