Hilary E. Wyss, Associate Professor, received her PhD
from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A specialist in
Early American Literature, Native American Literatures, and American
Studies, she is the author of Writing Indians: Literacy, Christianity,
and Native Community in Early America. She is currently co-editing
Early Native Literacies in New England: a Documentary and Critical
Anthology with Kristina Bross (forthcoming from the University
of Massachusetts Press) and 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 serves
on the editorial board of the journal Early American Literature
and is coordinator of Graduate Studies for the English Department.
Outstanding Graduate Faculty Award, Auburn University Graduate Student Council, 2002
Participant in the History
of the Book Summer Seminar "Publishing God: Printing, Preaching,
and Reading in Eighteenth-Century America" American Antiquarian
Society, June 2005.
Representative Publications
"Indigenous Literacies: New England and New Spain." The Companion to the Literatures of Colonial America, eds. Ivy Schweitzer and Susan Castillo. Blackwell Publishing. Forthcoming 2006: 387-401.
Writing Indians: Literacy, Christianity, and Native Community in
Early America. University of Massachusetts Press, 2000; paperback,
2003.
"Missionaries in the Classroom: Bernardino de Sahagún, John Eliot, and the Teaching of Colonial Indigenous Texts from New Spain and New England." Early American Literature, vol. 38.3, 2003: 503-518.
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