Maria泭Windell
- Associate Professor
Dr. Windells research and teaching emphasize ethnic and transnational US literatures and history. Her book,泭Transamerican Sentimentalism and Nineteenth-Century US Literary History泭(Oxford UP 2020), examines how writers of color and women writers used genre as a泭tool to navigate the racialized and gendered violence of the nineteenth-century Americas. Her current project uses nineteenth-century US naval writings as a connective thread to link the Middle East, Pacific, Caribbean, and US-Mexico borderlands. In so doing, it highlights US imperialism as a reactive forceone shaped by the decisions, actions, and sovereignties of Pacific Islanders, Caribbean pirates, Dominican and Mexican women, Muslim immigrants, and Tejano Confederates. Her work has appeared in journals including泭J19,泭Studies in American Fiction, and泭American Literary Realism, and she co-edited, with Jesse Alem獺n, a special issue of泭English Language Notes泭on Latinx Lives in Hemispheric Context (56.2).
Areas of Specialty
- American泭Literature
- Cultural Studies
- Ethnic American Literature, Literature of the Americas, Post Colonial Literature