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Gordon M. Sayre

Curriculum Vita – Summer 2019

Department of English

Prince Lucien Campbell Hall

1286 University of Oregon

Eugene, OR 97403

(541) 346-1313 gsayre@uoregon.edu

Employment

Professor, University of Oregon, 2006-present

Associate Professor, University of Oregon, 1999-2006

Assistant Professor, University of Oregon, 1993-1999

Education

Ph.D. State University of New York at Buffalo

Program in Comparative Literature, 1993

A.B. Brown University

Magna Cum Laude with Honors in Comparative Literature, 1988

Research and Teaching Areas

Colonial and Early American Literature

Early Modern French Atlantic History

Literature and Environment/Eco-Criticism

Automobility and Vernacular Car Cultures

Native American Literature

Honors and Awards

University of Oregon Office of Sustainability Fellowship, 2019

Fund for Faculty Excellence Award, University of Oregon, 2014-15

University of Oregon Humanities Center, Provost’s Senior Humanist Fellowship, Winter 2015

Outstanding Research Career Award, Office of Research, Innovation and Graduate Education, University of Oregon, 2013

University of Oregon College of Arts and Sciences Summer Stipend, 2013

Honorable Mention, Lois Roth Award for a Translation of a Literary Work, 2013

Fulbright Research Fellowship to Canada, Université Laval, Quebec City, 2011-2012

Coleman-Guitteau Teaching Professorship, Oregon Humanities Center, 2010-2011

William and Mary Quarterly/University of Southern California Early Modern Studies Institute Workshop, Huntington Library, May 2010

Visiting Faculty, AHA Angers program, Angers, France, Winter 2009

Scholar in Residence, H. J. Andrews Experimental Forest, Blue River, Oregon, September 2008

National Endowment for the Humanities, Collaborative Research Grant, with Carla Zecher, Newberry Library, $70,000 for translation of the Manuscript Memoirs of Jean-François Benjamin Dumont de Montigny, 2006-2008

National Endowment for the Humanities, Scholarly Editions Grant, in collaboration with Carla Zecher, Newberry Library, and Shannon Dawdy, University of Chicago. $100,000 for edition of the Memoires of Dumont de Montigny, 2004-2006

Instructor, NEH Summer Seminar, Newberry Library, August 2003

Richard Beale Davis Prize for best article in Early American Literature in 2002

Co-recipient, Rippey Award for Teaching Innovation, University of Oregon, 2002-03, 2009-10

Newberry Library Short-Term Research Fellowship, Summer 2002

University of Oregon Humanities Center Research Fellowship, Fall 2001

University of Oregon Office of Research Summer Research Award, 2001

Co-recipient, Williams Fund for Teaching Innovation award, University of Oregon, 1998-99

University of Oregon Humanities Center Teaching Fellowship, 1996

University of Oregon New Faculty Summer Research Award, 1994

Canadian Studies Grant Program, Graduate Student Fellowship, 1993

Publications:

Books

Jean-François-Benjamin Dumont de Montigny, The Memoir of Lieutenant Dumont, 1715-1747: A Sojourner in the French Atlantic (translation of Regards sur le monde atlantique, co-edited with Carla Zecher) Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture / University of North Carolina Press, 2012. Honorable Mention, Lois Roth Award for a Translation of a Literary Work, Modern Language Association, 2012.

Reviewed in Reviews in American History, William and Mary Quarterly, Eighteenth-Century Studies, Journal of Military History, Journal of Southern History

Regards sur le monde atlantique (1715-1747) by François-Benjamin Dumont de Montigny. Edited by Carla Zecher, Gordon M. Sayre, and Shannon Lee Dawdy. Sillery, Québec: Septentrion, 2008.

Reviewed in Les Cahiers de lecture de L’Action nationale IV: 1 (Automne-Hiver 2009).

The Indian Chief as Tragic Hero: Native Resistance and the Literatures of America, from Moctezuma to Tecumseh. University of North Carolina Press, 2005.

Reviewed in American Historical Review February 2007, American Indian Culture and Research Journal 30:4, Indiana Magazine of History June 2007, Itinerario 30:3, Journal of American History December 2006, Journal of Military History 71:2, Louisiana History April 2007, William and Mary Quarterly October 2006

Editor, American Captivity Narratives: Selected Narratives with Introduction. New Riverside Editions, Houghton Mifflin, 2000. Paul Lauter, series editor.

"Les Sauvages Américains": Representations of Native Americans in French and English Colonial Literature. University of North Carolina Press, 1997.

Reviewed in American Literary History 12.1, American Literature 70:4, Choice March 1998, Christianity and Literature Spring 1998, Comparative Literature, Georgia Historical Quarterly 82:2, Histoire Sociale/Social History May 1999, Historical New Hampshire Fall/Winter 1998, Journal of American History June 1998, Louisiana History 41:1, New England Quarterly March 1998, Reviews in American History 27 March 1999, William and Mary Quarterly April 1998, Yearbook of Comparative and General Literature 48

Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals

“Michipichik and the Walrus: Anishinaabe Natural History in the 17th-century work of Louis Nicolas.” Journal of Early Modern Cultural Studies 17:4 (Fall 2017).

“The Alexandrian Library of Life: A Flawed Metaphor for Biodiversity.” Environmental Humanities 9:2 (November 2017), 280-299.

“Self-portraiture and commodification in the work of Huron/Wendat artist Zacharie Vincent, aka ‘Le dernier Huron.’” American Indian Culture and Research Journal 39:2 (2015).

“Creole Identity in French Louisiana: from the Memoir of Dumont de Montigny / Identité créole dans la Louisiane Française: d’après le Mémoire de Dumont de Montigny.” Cahiers des Anneaux de la Mémoire 15 Special Issue: Créolités aux Amériques françaises / Creolization in the French Americas. Nantes, France and Lafayette, Louisiana, 2014; 107-121. Reprinted in Creolization in the French Americas ed. Jordan Kellman, Jean-Marc Masseaut, and Michael Martin University of Louisiana Press, Lafayette, 2015.

“The Oxymoron of American Pastoralism.” Arizona Quarterly 69:4 (Winter 2013), 1-22.

“How to succeed in exploration without really discovering anything: four French travelers in colonial Louisiana, 1714-1763” Atlantic Studies 10:1 (2013), 51-68. Special Issue: Beyond Center and Periphery: New Currents in French and Francophone Atlantic Studies, ed. by Jordan Kellman, University of Louisiana at Lafayette.

“A Newly-Discovered Manuscript Map by Antoine-Simon Le Page du Pratz” French Colonial History 11:1 (2010), 23-45.

“Renegades from Barbary: The Transnational turn in Captivity Studies” American Literary History 22.2/Early American Literature 45:2 A special joint issue, edited by Sandra Gustafson and Gordon Hutner, 2010.

“Natchez Ethnohistory Revisited: New Manuscript Sources from Le Page du Pratz and Dumont de Montigny” Louisiana History 50:4 (Fall 2009), 407-431.

[with Carla Zecher, Newberry Library; and Shannon Dawdy, University of Chicago] “A French Soldier in Louisiana: The Memoir of Dumont de Montigny” The French Review 80:6 (May 2007), 1265-1277.

"Melodramas of Rebellion: Metamora and the Literary Historiography of King Philip's War in the 1820s." Arizona Quarterly 60:2 (Summer 2004), 1-32.

"'Azakia,' Ouâbi, and Sarah Wentworth Apthorp Morton: A Romance of the Early American Republic." Princeton University Library Chronicle 64:2 (Winter 2003), 313-332.

"Plotting the Natchez Massacre: Le Page du Pratz, Dumont de Montigny, Chateaubriand." Early American Literature 37:3 (Fall 2002): 381-413. Awarded Richard Beale Davis Prize, 2003.

"If Thomas Jefferson had visited Niagara Falls: The Sublime Wilderness Spectacle in America, 1775-1825." ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 8:2 (Summer 2001): 141-162. Reprinted in The ISLE Reader: Ecocriticism 1993-2003, Ed. Michael P. Branch and Scott Slovic. University of Georgia Press, 2003, 102-123.

“The Mammoth: Endangered Species or Vanishing Race?” JEMCS: Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies 1:1 (Spring/Summer 2001), 63-87.

"Abridging Between Two Worlds: John Tanner as American Indian Autobiographer." American Literary History 11:3 (Fall 1999), 480-499.

"The Mound Builders and the Imagination of American Antiquity in Jefferson, Bartram, and Chateaubriand." Early American Literature 33:3 (Fall 1998), 225-249.

"Defying Assimilation, Confounding Authenticity: The Case of William Apess." a/b: Auto/Biography Studies 11:1 (Spring 1996), 1-18.

"The Beaver as Native and as Colonist." Canadian Review of Comparative Literature / Revue canadienne de littérature comparée 22:3-4 (Fall/Winter 1995-96, Special Issue "Postcolonial Literatures: Theory and Practice"), 659-682. Excerpt reprinted in The Post-Colonial Studies Reader, edited by Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths, and Helen Tiffin, 2nd edition, Routledge, 2006: 507-510.

"The French View of Tattooing in Native North American Cultures." Proceedings of the Nineteenth Meeting of the French Colonial Historical Society, Providence, RI May 1993. Ed. James Pritchard. Cleveland: French Colonial Historical Society, 1994: 23-34.

Essays in Edited Collections

“The Bad Guys Wear Tricornered Hats’: The Villasur Massacre of 1720 and the Segesser II Hide Painting in Spanish and French Colonial Literature” Before the West was West: Critical Essays on Pre-1800 Literature of the American Frontiers. Ed. Amy T. Hamilton and Tom J. Hillard. Lincoln: U. Nebraska Press, 2014; 191-212.

“’Take my scalp, please!’: Colonial Mimetism and the French Origins of the Mississippi Tall Tale” Colonial Mediascapes ed. Jeffrey Glover and Matt Cohen. Lincoln: U. Nebraska Press, 2014: 203-229.

“John Tanner, Méti: On the Impossibilities of Cultural Translation.” in Native American Studies across Time and Space: Essays on the Indigenous Americas, ed. Oliver Scheiding. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2010, 133-143.

“Slave Narrative and Captivity Narrative: American Genres” Blackwell Companion to American Literature, ed. Paul Lauter. Oxford: Blackwell, 2010: 179-191.

“Jefferson and Native Americans: Policy and Archive.” The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Jefferson, edited by Frank Shuffleton. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2009: 61-72.

"Prehistoric Diasporas: Colonial Theories of the Origins of Native American Peoples." Writing Race Across the Atlantic World, Medieval to Modern. Ed. Gary Taylor and Philip Beidler. London: Palgrave, 2005: 51-75.

[with Roxanne Kent-Drury, University of Northern Kentucky] "Robinson Crusoe's Parodic Intertextuality." Approaches to Teaching Defoe's Robinson Crusoe. Ed. Maximillian E. Novak and Carl H. Fisher. New York: MLA, 2005: 48-54.

"Urban Climbers in the Wilderness: Mounts Hood, Rainier, and Shasta, and the History of Popular Mountaineering." Imagining the Big Open: Nature, Identity, and Play in the New West. Ed. Liza Nicholas, Elaine M. Bapis, and Thomas J. Harvey. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2003: 92-110.

“Le Page du Pratz’s Fabulous Journey of Discovery: Learning about Nature Writing from a Colonial Promotional Narrative.” In The Greening of Literary Scholarship: Literature, Theory, and the Environment. Ed. Steven Rosendale. University of Iowa Press, 2002: 26-41.

"Communion in Captivity: Torture, Martyrdom and Gender in New France and New England." Finding Colonial Americas: Essays Honoring J. A. Leo Lemay. Ed. Carla Mulford and David S. Shields. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2001: 50-63.

"Native American Sexuality in the Eyes of the Beholder, 1524-1710." In Sex and Sexuality in Early America. Ed. Merril D. Smith. New York: New York University Press, 1998: 35-54.

Review Essays and Shorter Articles

“Automobile.” Fueling Culture 101: Words for Energy and Environment. Eds. Imre Szeman, Jennefer Wenzel, and Patricia Yaeger. Bronx, NY: Fordham UP, 2017: 54-56.

"Moral Testimony and Noblesse Oblige in Memoirs of the Atlantic Revolutions." J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists 3:2 (October 2015), 367-376.

“A Newly-discovered Manuscript Map by Antoine-Simon Le Page du Pratz: From Mississippi Bubble to "Fleuve St. Louis," a new portrait of America's greatest river” Common-place 9:4 (June 2009) [on-line journal published by American Antiquarian Society, at mon-]

“John Tanner” American National Biography. Oxford University Press, on-line.

"The Crisis in Scholarly Publishing: Demystifying the Fetishes of Technology and the Market." Profession 2005, 52-58.

"A Native American Scoops Lewis and Clark: The Voyage of Moncacht-apé." Common-place 5:4 (June 2005)

"Native Signification and Communication.” Early American Literature 38:3 (2003), 495-504. Review of Andreas Motsch, Lafitau et l’émergence du discours ethnographique; Joshua D. Bellin, The Demon of the Continent: Indians and the Shaping of American Literature; Hilary E. Wyss, Writing Indians: Literacy, Christianity, and Native Community in Early America.

"Americans Have Long Fascination with Prehistoric Beasts." Mammoth Trumpet 15:4 [Newsletter of Center for the Study of the First Americans, Oregon State University] (October, 2000): 15-16.

"A Riverside Anthology of American Captivity Narratives." [1000-word article] The Heath Anthology of American Literature Newsletter 21 (Winter 2000).

“William Apess.” [1500-word entry] The Literary Dictionary [on-line encyclopedia at ].

"Captivity Canons." American Quarterly 50:4 (December 1998): 860-867. Review of:

Gary L. Ebersole, Captured by Texts: Puritan to Post-Modern Images of Indian Captivity

Christopher Castiglia, Bound and Determined: Captivity, Culture-Crossing, and White Womanhood from Mary Rowlandson to Patty Hearst

Michelle Burnham, Captivity and Sentiment: Cultural Exchange in American Literature, 1682-1861.

Headnotes and annotations to selections by Jean de Brébeuf, Antoine-Simon Le Page du Pratz, Marie de l'Incarnation, and Jean de Léry in the anthology Early American Writings. Ed. Carla Mulford (Oxford UP, 2001).

"Early America." [1000-word article] Encyclopedia of American Studies. Bethel, CT: Grolier, 2001.

Forthcoming Articles

“The Humanity of the Car: Automobility, Agency, and Autonomy” Cultural Critique 107 (Spring 2020)

“‘Carbolization’: Cars, Carbon Emissions, and the Global Discipline of Automobility” in Accelerating Ride to Global Crisis: Transportation and the Culture of Climate Change, ed. Tatiana Prorokova. West Virginia University Press, 2020.

Under review

“Jefferson takes on Buffon: A Study of the Polemic on American Animals in Notes on the State of Virginia” at William and Mary Quarterly

"The Energy Pastoral: Subsistence, Fuel, and the Dream of Abundance" at American Quarterly

Translations

My website at:

includes selections from Histoire de la Louisiane (1758) by Antoine-Simon Le Page du Pratz; an excerpt from “Poème en vers touchant l'établissement de la province de la Loüisiane connüee sous le nom du Missisipy avec tout ce que s'y est passé de depuis 1716 jusqu'à 1741” by Jean-François-Benjamin Dumont de Montigny; and a memoir of the Natchez Massacre of 1729 by Jean-Baptiste de Laye, from Archives Nationales, 04DFC38.

Book Reviews

Gichi Bitobig, Grand Marais: Early Accounts of the Anishinaabeg and the North Shore Fur Trade by Timothy Cochrane Transmotion

Feral: Rewilding the Land, the Sea, and Human Life by George Monbiot. Resilience: A Journal of the Environmental Humanities 4.1 (Winter 2016).

Wild Frenchmen and Frenchified Indians: Material Culture and Race in Colonial Louisiana by Sophie White. ALH Online Reviews series VI (2016).

Louisiana: Crossroads of the Atlantic World Ed. by Cécile Vidal. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 39:1 (March 2016), 148-149.

Histoire de la Nation Cherokee by Lionel Larré. Transmotion 1:2 (2015).

The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future. By Naomi Oreskes and Erik M Conway. Reports of the National Center for Science Education 35:4 (2015)

The Codex Canadensis and the Writings of Louis Nicolas: The Natural History of the New World/Histoire Naturelle des Indes Occidentales. Edited François-Marc Gagnon, translation by Nancy Senior Early American Literature 50:2 (2015)

Natchez Country: Indians, Colonists, and the Landscapes of Race in French Louisiana by George Milne. AICRJ: American Indian Culture and Research Journal 39:4 (2015), 152.

French and Indians in the Heart of North America, 1630-1815. Edited by Robert Englebert and Guillaume Teasdale. American Indian Culture and Research Journal 38:3 (2014).

In Search of First Contact: The Vikings of Vinland, the Peoples of the Dawnland, and the Anglo-American Anxiety of Discovery by Annette Kolodny. Modern Philology 111:4 (May 2014).

Queequeg’s Coffin: Indigenous Literacies and Early American Literature by Birgit Brander Rasmussen. Journal of American History 99:3 (December 2012).

William Bartram: The Search for Nature’s Design, Selected Art, Letters and Unpublished Drawings ed. by Nancy Hoffman and Thomas Hallock Early American Literature 47:2 (2012), 510-513.

A Democracy of Facts: Natural History in the Early Republic by Andrew J. Lewis. Journal of the Early Republic 32:4 (Fall 2012).

Writing a New France, 1604-1632: Empire and Early Modern French Identity by Brian Brazeau. Early American Literature 46:1 (2011), 191-193.

La Revolte des Natchez by Arnaud Balvay. Ethnohistory 56:4 (Fall 2009), 783-785.

Mapping a Continent: Historical Atlas of North America, 1492-1814, by Raymonde Litalien, Jean-François Palomino, and Denis Vaugeois. Common-place 9:2 January 2009 [on-line journal published by American Antiquarian Society, at mon-].

Medicine Bundle: Indian Sacred Performance and American Literature, 1824-1932 by Joshua David Bellin. Journal of American History 95:2 (September 2008), 41.

L'Epee et la Plume: Amérindiens et soldats des troupes de la marine en Louisiane et au Pays d'en Haut (1683-1763) by Arnaud Balvay. Louisiana History 49 (2008).

In This Remote Country: French Colonial Culture in the Anglo-American Imagination, 1780-1860 by Edward Watts. Modern Philology 106:2 (November 2008) 310-312.

Innocence Abroad: The Dutch Imagination and the New World, 1570-1670 by Benjamin Schmidt, The American Historical Review 108:3 (June 2003).

Return Passages: Great American Travel Writing 1780-1910,by Larzer Ziff, and The La Salle Expedition to Texas: The Journal of Henri Joutel, 1684-1687, edited by William C. Foster, translated by Johanna S. Warren. Common-place 2:2 (January 2002).

American Monster: How the Nation's First Prehistoric Creature Became a Symbol of National Identity by Paul Semonin. William and Mary Quarterly 3rd series, LVIII, 2 (April 2001).

Metaphors of Dispossession: American Beginnings and the Translation of Empire, 1492-1637 by Gesa Mackenthun. Early American Literature 36:1 (Spring 2001).

Declarations of Independency in Eighteenth-Century American Autobiography by Susan Clair Imbarrato. a/b: Auto/Biography Studies

O Brave New People: The European Invention of the American Indian by John F. Moffitt and Santiago Sebastián. American Studies 40:3 (Fall 1999).

Border Theory: The Limits of Cultural Politics edited by Scott Michaelsen and David E. Johnson. American Studies 40:1 (Spring 1999).

Histoire de la littérature amerindienne au Québec by Diane Boudreau. American Anthropologist 98:3 (Summer 1996).

More Letters from the American Farmer edited by Dennis Moore. William and Mary Quarterly 53:1 (Spring 1996).

Imagining Niagara: The Meaning and Making of Niagara Falls by Patrick McGreevy. American Quarterly 45:1 (Spring 1995).

Narrating Discovery: The Romantic Explorer in American Literature, 1790-1855 by Bruce Greenfield. Nineteenth-Century Prose 21:2 (Fall 1994).

Cannibals: The Discovery and Representation of the Cannibal from Columbus to Jules Verne by Frank Lestringant. The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography

The American Manufactory: Art, Labor, and the World of Things in the Early Republic by Laura Rigal. The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography

Presentations:

Invited Lectures and Symposia

“Thomas Jefferson, the Comte de Buffon, and the Polemic over American Degeneracy” RUDESA spring academy in American Studies, University of Essen, Germany, March 28th, 2019.

“How Living Species are like Printed Books” Textual Studies Program and Anthropocene Research Group, University of Washington. February 7, 2019

"The Humanity of the Car" University of Utah Environmental Humanities symposium, Centennial Valley field research station, Montana, September 13-15, 2018.

"Jean-Bernard Bossu and the Tall Tales of Colonial Louisiana Promotional Tracts" Symposium on "New Orleans, Global City 1718-2018: The Long Shadow of John Law and the Mississippi Bubble." University of Colorado Boulder, April 26-27, 2018.

“Of Muses and Mémoires: Literary Textures of Testimony in the French Atlantic World”

Emerging Histories of the Early Modern French Atlantic, Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, VA, October 16-18, 2015.

“The Library of Life” The Futures of Environmental Humanities University of Utah/Brigham Young University, September 24-27, 2015.

“Lines and Voices: Maps and Narratives in 18th-Century Middle America” Presidential Research Lecture, University of Oregon, March 4th, 2014.

"American Degeneracy: Colonial Science and Environmental Anxiety in the 18th century" University of California Santa Barbara, Early Modern Center, Conference on Transatlantic Ecologies, May 16-17, 2014.

“French Sources on the Villasur Massacre of 1720” De l’observation à l’inscription : les savoirs sur l’Amérique entre 1600 et 1830 dans les textes d’expression française, Montreal, May 31-June 1, 2013.

“The Villasur Massacre of 1720: An Early Imperial Conflict on the Great Plains” University of Alaska Southeast, Juneau, March 27, 2013.

" The Memoir of Dumont de Montigny: a picaresque autobiography of the 18th century French Atlantic." French Atlantic History Group, McGill University, April 4, 2012; and University of Virginia Department of French, September 12, 2012.

“Pleistocene Projections: The History of North American Pre-History” Grounded Histories: Land, Landscape, and Environment in Early North America, a USC-Huntington Library Early Modern Studies Institute Workshop, Pasadena, CA, May 27-30, 2010.

“Renegades from Barbary: The Transnational turn in Captivity Studies” Early American Literature Symposium, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, September 24-25, 2009.

“Dumont de Montigny: Son oeuvre cartographique, ethnographique, et autobiographique.” Oregon Association of Teachers of French, Confederation in Oregon for Language Teaching 2007 conference, Corvallis, OR, October 13, 2007.

“John Tanner, Méti: On the Impossibilities of Cultural Translation.” Native American Studies across Time and Space: An International Symposium on the Indigenous Americas. Department of English and Linguistics, and American Studies Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz July, 12-14 2007

“The Origins of New Orleans: French Colonials Struggle against Floods, Hurricanes, Bugs, and Silt.” Deschutes County Public Library, Bend, Oregon, February 25, 2007.

"The French Maps of North America from Lahontan and Delisle to Le Page and Buache." Chicago Map Society, Newberry Library, January 23, 2007.

“Shamanism, Providence, and the Picaresque in Dumont de Montigny's Memoires de L___ D___”

University of Louisiana, Lafayette, December 13, 2006.

“New Perspectives on the Natchez Massacre of 1729.” Grand Village of the Natchez Indians, Natchez, Mississippi, December 12, 2006.

"The Delaware Prophet and the Captivity Narratives of Pontiac's Rebellion." Keynote address in Captivity Narrative Group, Southwest/Texas Popular Culture/American Culture Association, Albuquerque, New Mexico, Feb. 11, 2005.

“The Death of Serpent Piqué and the Value of life at Natchez.” Symposium on “The Challenges of Comparison in Colonial American Literary Studies.” University of Chicago, April 30-May 1, 2004.

“Antoine-Simon Le Page du Pratz and the French Image of Western North America in the Eighteenth Century.” “The Louisiana Purchase: Faces and Cultures of Yesterday and Today.” Symposium at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, November 2003.

"Melodramas of Rebellion: The Literary Historiography of King Philip's War in the 1820s." Department of English, University of Wisconsin-Madison, February 21, 2002; and Early Modern Research Group, University of Washington, November 18, 2002.

"Prehistoric Diasporas: Colonial Theories of the Origins of Native American Peoples." Symposium on "Writing Race Across the Atlantic World: 1492-1763," University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, September 27-28, 2001.

"Religion, Gender and Martyrdom: Comparing Colonial American Captivity Narratives." "A Feast of Paradigms: Comparative Literature 1973-1998" a conference celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Comparative Literature Program at the State University of New York at Buffalo, March 1999.

National / International Conferences

"Jean-Bernard Bossu and the Tall Tales of Colonial Louisiana Promotional Tracts" (with Arnaud Balvay) “Transatlantic Conversations: New and Emerging Approaches to Early American Studies.” Obama Institute, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany, October 4-6, 2018

“Species and Media of Early America: The Codex Canadensis and other remarkable natural history manuscripts.” Translation and Transmission: 4th Ibero-American Summit, Washington, DC, June 2-4, 2016.

“Louis Nicolas and the Sovereign Beasts of Natural History” Symposium on “Les souverainétés indigènes: Royautés, principautés, républiques et empires autochtones dans les mondes atlantiques.” Nantes, France, March 24-26, 2016, and Society of Early Americanists, Tulsa, Oklahoma, March 2, 2017; also at American Society for Ethnohistory Winnipeg, Manitoba, October 14, 2017.

“’Alive and Moving’: Aesthetics, Agency, and Technology in Audubon’s Birds of America”

Modern Language Association Convention, Austin, TX, January 10th, 2016.

“Geo-Myths and Early American Megafauna in the works of Louis Nicolas and David Thompson.” Association for the Study of Literature and Environment Eleventh biennial meeting, Moscow, ID, June 23-27th, 2015.

“A Specious Argument: Species Agency in Early America" Society of Early Americanists and Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture joint conference, Chicago, IL, June 17-21, 2015.

American Degeneracy: Colonial Science and Environmental Anxiety in the 18th century" Modern Language Association Convention, Vancouver, BC, January 8-11, 2015.

“French-American Exiles in London: Chateaubriand and Crèvecœur, 1782-1800.” London and the Americas, 1492-1812. University of Kingston, UK, July 18, 2014.

“The Mississippi Bubble and the Settling of Louisiana: Perspectives from the Memoir of Lieutenant Dumont” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Williamsburg, Virginia, March 22, 2014.

“The Dialectic of Historical Monuments on the Plains of Abraham, Quebec” Society of Early Americanists, Savannah, GA, March 2, 2013.

“Car Cultures” Modern Language Association, Seattle WA, January 6, 2012.

“A French Account of the battle for Pensacola in 1719” Third Early Ibero-/Anglo-Americanist Summit, St. Augustine, Florida, May, 2010.

“The Oxymoron of American Pastoralism” Omohundro Institute for Early American History and Culture, Salt Lake City, UT, June 14th, 2009.

“Le mémoire manuscrit de Dumont de Montigny: une nouvelle histoire de l’Amérique française” Comité des Travaux Historiques et Scientifiques, Québec, June 2-6, 2008.

“La signification indigène et l’histoire folklorique de la Louisiane.” Comité des Travaux Historiques et Scientifiques, Québec, June 2-6, 2008.

Workshop leader, “The Words of the Prophet (and Tecumseh too)” Prophetstown Revisited: An Early Native American Studies Summit. Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, April 2008.

“The Life and Adventures of Dumont de Montigny: Bridging Linguistic and Cultural Barriers to Publish one of the Earliest Autobiographies in the French Atlantic World” with Carla Zecher, Newberry Library. Modern Language Association 2007 Convention, Chicago.

“Providence and the Picaresque in Dumont de Montigny’s ‘Mémoires de L___ D___’” Modern Language Association 2007 Convention, Chicago.

"The French Maps of North America from Lahontan and Delisle to Le Page and Buache." Early American Cartographies, Newberry Library, Chicago, March 2006, and Society for the History of Discoveries, Portland OR, September 2006.

“Shamanism, Providence, and the Picaresque in Dumont de Montigny's Memoires de L___ D___”

Omohundro Institute for Early American History and Culture, Québec City, June 2006

“Dumont de Montigny’s Underbelly of Sovereign Authority in Louisiana.” Society of Early Americanists. Alexandria, VA, April 2005.

The Delaware Prophet and Pontiac's Rebellion." Society of Early Americanists. Providence, RI, April 2003.

Organizer: "Colonizers, Cajuns, and Creoles: Literature of French Louisiana, 1680-1900." A Special Session, Modern Language Association, New Orleans, December 2002.

"John Smith" and "Joel Barlow" Early Ibero-/Anglo-Americanist Summit. Tucson, Arizona. May 2002.

"The Mammoth: Endangered Species or Vanishing Race?" "Taking Nature Seriously: Citizens, Science, and the Environment." University of Oregon, February 2001.

"The Surprise Attack Betrayed: A Trope in the History of Colonial Wars." Modern Language Association, Washington, DC, December 2000.

Commenter on panel, “Debating the Passion Question: Images of Savagery and Civility,” Omohundro Institute for Early American History and Culture, Toronto, Canada, June 2000.

Organizer, "Comparing Colonial American Literatures, 1500-1800" A Special Session,

Modern Language Association, San Francisco, December 1998.

"Identity and Belonging in the Narrative of John Tanner, Ojibway Adoptee." Modern Language Association, San Francisco, December 1998.

"If Thomas Jefferson had visited Niagara: Sublime Spectacles in Eighteenth-Century America." "Culture and Environmentalism: The first European Conference of the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment." Bath Spa University College, Bath, U.K., July 1998.

"The Mound Builders and the Imagination of Antiquity in Jefferson, Bartram, and Chateaubriand." American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, University of Notre Dame, April 1998.

"Exploration Narrative and Ethnographic Description: Genres and Epistemologies of Colonial Discourse." Modern Language Association, Toronto, Ontario, December 1997.

"Jefferson at Niagara: Sublime Spectacles in Eighteenth-Century America." Modern Language Association, Toronto, Ontario, December 1997.

"Religion, Gender, and Martyrdom: Comparative Captivities in Seventeenth-Century English, French, and Spanish Colonial America." American Comparative Literature Association, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, April 1997.

"Contested Identities: John Tanner and Early American Indian Autobiography." Native American Literature Conference, University of Oregon, May 1997.

"Cultivateur, Littérateur: Crèvecœur's Problematizing of the Yeoman-Farmer Myth." Institute for Early American History and Culture, Ann Arbor, MI, June 1995.

"The Death of Serpent Piqué." Modern Language Association, San Diego, CA, December 1994.

"The Mark of the Savage: Native American Tatoos in French Colonial Texts."

French Colonial Historical Society, Providence, RI, May 1993.

"The Beaver as Savage and as Colonist: Representations of 'le Castor' in 18th-century Canada." American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Providence, RI, April 1993.

"The Possibility of Self-Supplementarity: Lahontan's Nouveaux Voyages à l'Amérique Septentrionale and Diderot's Supplément au Voyage de Bougainville. " American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Pittsburgh, PA, April 1991.

Regional / University of Oregon Conferences and Lectures

“The Villasur Massacre of 1720: An Early Imperial Conflict on the Great Plains.” LALISA: Latin American, Latino/a, and Iberian Studies Conference, University of Oregon, April 15th, 2017

“The Murray Treaty and Wendat Sovereignty in Quebec: Tribal, Cultural, and Linguistic Nationalism” Alternative Sovereignties conference, University of Oregon, May 9th, 2014.

“The Fur Trade and the Exploration of the Northwest: Books and Maps from Special Collections” Oregon Rare Book Initiative, Special Collections and University Archives, Knight Library, University of Oregon, February 5th, 2014

“A Brief History of Climatic Theories since Antiquity: from Hemispheric, to Local, to Continental, to Global.” 2nd Annual University of Oregon Climate Change Research Symposium, April 10, 2013.

“Dumont de Montigny and French Louisiana” a round table with Paul Mapp, History, College of William and Mary, and Fabienne Moore, French, University of Oregon, November 27, 2012.

“Dumont de Montigny’s Memoir of Lieutenant Dumont” Translation Studies Working Group, University of Oregon, April 8, 2011.

"Health Care in Colonial Louisiana." Western Folklore Association. Eugene, Oregon, April 2005.

“Antoine-Simon Le Page du Pratz and the French Image of Western North America in the Eighteenth Century.” Pacific Northwest American Studies Association. Warm Springs, Oregon, April 2004.

"Countdown to Betrayal: A Trope in the History of Colonial Rebellions." University of Oregon Humanities Center Works-in-Progress series, October 12, 2001.

"Chief Logan and Joseph Doddridge." Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies, Eugene, Oregon, April 2001.

"Birds in Literature: John James Audubon and John Clare." Salem Audubon Society. Salem, Oregon, February 21, 2001. [invited lecture]

“Pontiac: The Indian Hero and the Vision of Empire.” University of Oregon Humanities Center Works-in-Progress Series, April 28, 2000.

"Religion, Gender, and Martyrdom: Comparative Captivities in Seventeenth-Century English, French, and Spanish Colonial America." Northwest Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Eugene, Oregon, October 1997; and Southwest/Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Conference, Albuquerque, NM, February 2000.

"Birds in Literature: John James Audubon and John Clare." University of Oregon Museum of Natural History lecture series, November 21, 1996. [Invited lecture]

"To Boldly Go Where No Man Has Gone Before: Historical and Colonial Motives in Le Page du Pratz's Fabulous Journey of Discovery." Mesa Verde lecture series, University of Oregon, May 29, 1996; and Pacific Northwest American Studies Association, Bend, Oregon, April 1996.

"The Disappearing Colonist: Inscription and Erasure of Wildness in Literature of French Louisiana." University of Oregon Comparative Literature Works-in-Progress colloquium, January 25, 1996.

"If Thomas Jefferson had Visited Niagara Falls." Pacific Northwest American Studies Association, Lincoln City, Oregon, April 1995.

"Crevecœur's Political Translation in Lettres d'un Cultivateur Américain."

Pacific Northwest American Studies Association, Lincoln City, Oregon, April 1994.

Teaching Experience

Angers Program, AHA International, Angers, France, Winter 2009.

Institut Charles V, Université de Paris VII:

"Lecteur" in English phonetics, pronunciation and writing, 1991-1992.

University of Oregon:

English 104 Introduction to Literature: Fiction

English 108 World Literature II

Writing 121 College Composition

College Connections 199 (for first-year students)

Folklore 199/399 Car Cultures

Folklore 320 Car Cultures

English 209 The Craft of the Sentence

English 215 Survey of American Literature I

English 240/245 Introduction to Native American Literature

English 300 Introduction to Literary Criticism

English 361/407/468 Native American Writers: Louise Erdrich and D’Arcy McNickle

English 391 American Novel I

English 392 American Novel II

English 408 Work and Career Mentor Program; faculty sponsor

History 410/510 Contested Events in Colonial America (with Prof. Matthew Dennis)

English 410/510 Contested Events in Early National America (with Matthew Dennis)

English 410/510, 466/566 Early American Autobiography

English 410/510 and English 364 Early American Ethnic Autobiography

English 410/510 Travel Narrative and the Development of the Novel

Comparative Lit. 410/510 Introduction to Enlightenment Literature

Comparative Lit. 413/513 Conquest and Cultural Representation in the Americas

Comparative Lit. 462/562 Revolution and Exile: French Littérateurs in the United States

Honors College HC 434H Revolution and Exile in the Atlantic World

Honors College HC 434H Conquest and Cultural Representation in the Americas

English 410/510 Literature, Natural History, and the Problem of America

English 461/561 American Literature to 1800

English 479/579 Major Authors: Poe, Hawthorne, Brown; American Gothic

English 608 Job Search Workshop for Graduate Students

English 614 Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory (required Graduate Seminar)

English 615 Theorizing Ecocriticism: Pastoralism in America (Graduate Seminar)

English 645 Enlightenment and Revolution from Europe to America (Grad. Seminar)

English 645 Literature, Natural History, and the Problem of America (Grad. Seminar)

English 645 Native American Resistance and Imperial Literary Form (Grad. Seminar)

English 645 Species and Print, Extinction and Archive (Graduate Seminar)

English 660 Early American Ethnography (Graduate Seminar)

English 660 The Captivity Narrative (Graduate Seminar)

English 690 Introduction to Graduate Studies in English

Theses directed:

Paula Wright, Ph.D. Dissertation: "Reordering Nature: Romantic Science, Natural History, and Mountaineering" May 2019

Alexander Young, PhD. Dissertation: “Speaking Silently Speaking: Thomas Shepard's “Confessions” and its Impact on Spiritual Self-Representation in Early and Later America” February 2012

Ulrick Casimir, Ph.D. dissertation: “Conceptualizing the Caribbean: Re-exportation and Anglophone Caribbean Cultural Products” August 2008

Teresa Coronado, Ph.D. dissertation: “’Locating the Butt of Ridicule: Humor and Social Class in Early American Literature.” May 2008

Edwin McAllister, Ph.D. dissertation: “Inclusion Acts: The Ideological Work of Nineteenth-century American Missionary Ethnography” 1997

Scott Zeigler, B. A. Honors thesis, University of Oregon and McNair Scholars Program, 2019: "Antagonistic River: The Agency of Nature in Northwest Literature"

Colin McKey, B.A. Honors thesis, Clark Honors College, 2016: “The Economic Consequences of the Haitian Revolution.”

Audrey Graser, B.A. Honors thesis, 2014: “F. Scott Fitzgerald in the City of Lights: Success and Failure in Tender is the Night through the lens of Buffalo, New York”

Amélie Rousseau, B.A. Honors thesis, 2011: “Citizen Review Structures for Proposed University of Oregon Police Department”

Evgenia Fkiaras, B. A. Honors thesis, 2002: "To Be Black: Identity and Self in the Narratives of Briton Hammon, John Marrant, and Olaudah Equiano."

Joshua Ranger, B.A. Honors thesis, 1997: "The Three Faces of Eve: Nineteenth-century Black Women's Spiritual Narrative."

Professional Affiliations

Modern Language Association

Society of Early Americanists

Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture

Association for the Study of Literature and Environment

Oregon Historical Society

Extramural Scholarly and Professional Service

Executive Coordinator, Society of Early Americanists, 2013-2015

Vice President, Society of Early Americanists, 2015-2017

President, Society of Early Americanists, 2017-2019

External member, PhD dissertation, Douglas Hunter, Dept. of History, York University, 2015

Reviewer of Fellowship Applications, American Council of Learned Societies, 2013, 2014

Reviewer, Fulbright fellowships, American Literature field, 2016-17

MLA Divisional Executive Committee, Division on American Literature to 1800, 1999-2004

Tenure and Promotion referee: Auburn University, Brown University, , Hunter College City University of New York, University of Florida, Louisiana State University, Old Dominion University, Penn State University, Purdue University, Rutgers University Camden, State University of New York at Buffalo, State University of New York at Stony Brook, University of Texas Arlington, Tulane University.

Evaluator, CELAT and CRILCQ research centers at Université Laval, for grants sponsored by the Fonds Québecois pour la recherche dans la société et la culture, December 2005.

Co-chair, "Early American Cartographies." A conference co-sponsored by the Newberry Library and the Society of Early Americanists, held in Chicago at the Newberry, March 2-4, 2006.

Program Committee, Early American Borderlands, Third Early Anglo-Ibero Americanist Summit a conference held at Flagler College, St. Augustine, Florida, May 2010

Program Committee, Society of Early Americanists/Omohundro Institute Joint conference, Chicago, IL, June 2015

Program Committee, Society of Early Americanists, Savannah, Georgia, March 2013

Consultant for Mountain Lakes PBS documentary on Samuel de Champlain, 2008-09

Editorial Referee

for Book manuscripts:

Bedford / St. Martin's Press

Broadview Press

Cornell University Press

Kent State University Press

Lexington Books / Rowman and Littlefield

Mackinac State Historical Parks

Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture

Oregon Historical Society Press

Oxford University Press

University Press of Virginia

University of Wisconsin Press

University of California Press

University of Minnesota Press

University of North Carolina Press

University of Toronto Press

for Scholarly articles:

XVII-XVIII: Revue de la Société d'études anglo-américaines sur les dix-septième et dix-huitième siècle

American Indian Culture and Research Journal

American Literary History

American Quarterly

Atlantic Studies

Caribbean Studies

Early American Literature

Early American Studies

Eighteenth-Century Fiction

Emotions: History, Culture, Society

Ethnohistory

French Historical Studies

ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment

Great Plains Quarterly

Journal of American Studies

Journal of Early American History

Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies

JEMCS: The Journal of Early Modern Cultural Studie

Journal of the Canadian Historical Association/Revue de la société historique du Canada

Journal of Transnational American Studies

LEAR: Literature of the Early American Republic

The McNeese Review

MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the United States

Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide

Nineteenth-Century Contexts

PMLA: Publications of the Modern Language Association

Prose Studies

Revue d'histoire de l'Amérique française

Sixteenth-Century Journal

Studies in American Fiction

Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture

William and Mary Quarterly

for Fellowships and Grants:

American Council of Learned Societies

Canada Council for the Arts

CIEE Fulbright Commission

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

Newberry Library Short-term Research Fellowships

University of Oregon Campus and Departmental Service

Director of Undergraduate Studies, English Department, 2018-

Co-director, Oregon Rare Books Initiative Speakers Series, 2016-17

Director of Graduate Admissions, English Department, 2015-2017

Fund for Faculty Excellence Selection Committee, 2015-17, chair 2016-17

Non-Tenure Track Faculty Committee, Chair 2013-16

Faculty Research Awards Committee, Chair 2016-18

Oregon Humanities Center Advisory Board, 2015-18

Faculty Personnel Committee, Chair 2009-2011

President, University Senate, 2007-08

Vice President, University Senate, 2006-2007

Director of Graduate Studies, Department of English, 2004-2006

Job Search Advisor, Graduate Program, Department of English, 2001-2003

Participating Faculty, Environmental Studies Program, 1999-2002, 2017-present

Participating Faculty, Comparative Literature Program, 1993-2004

Participating Faculty, Ethnic Studies Program, 2000-2004

Participating Faculty, Canadian Studies Program, 2004-present

Participating Faculty, Folklore Program, 2007-present

Study Abroad Programs Committee, 2018-

Senate Budget Committee 2007-2011, 2014-2017, chair 2016-17

UO Policing Implementation Task Force, 2011-2015

Ad-Hoc Senate Committee on Arena Financing, 2007-2010

University Senate, 2003-2007, 2011-13

Non-Tenure Track Faculty Committee, 2012-2017, chair 2013-16

Campus Planning Committee, 2005-2006

Committee on Committees, 2004-2007, 2015-2017

Senate Nominating Committee, 2003-2004

Academic Requirements Committee, 2002-2004, Chair, 2003-2004

Undergraduate Council, 2003-2004

University Library Committee 1994-95, 1997-99, chair, 2008-10, 2013-15

Foreign Study Programs Committee 1995-96

Comparative Literature Program Committee 1994-97

Search Committee, Special Collections Librarian, 1999-2000

Search Committees, Program in Comparative Literature, 2000-2001, 2001-2002

Search Committee, Robert Clark Honors College, 2000-2001

English Department Post-Tenure Review Committee 2008-2013, 2015-17

English Department Ad-hoc Committee on Scholarly Publishing, 2003-2004

English Department Speakers Committee, 2001-2003

English Department Graduate Placement Officer, 2000-present

English Department Graduate Admissions Committee, 2000-2002, 2014-2017

English Department Ad-hoc Committee on Teaching Evaluations, 2001-2002

English Department Tenure and Promotion Committees, 2000-2001, 2010-11, 2013, 2014, 2016

English Department Composition Committee 1995-97

English Department Graduate Committee 1998-2000, 2010-2015

English Department Search Committee, Moore Chair in Literature and Environment, 2012-2013

English Department Search Committee, Native American Literature, 2010-11

English Department Search Committee, Literatures of the Americas, 2005-06

English Department Search Committee, Post-Colonial Literature, 2003-04

English Department Search Committee, African-Am. and Native Am. Literatures, 1994-95

English Department Graduate Qualifying Exam grader, 1998, 2000, 2007-09

Swig Essay Prize judge, 1998, 2001

English Department library representative, 1995-2009

Outside reader, Mathematics department Ph.D. dissertation, 1999

Outside reader, Comparative Literature Program Ph.D. Dissertation, 2014

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