Anna Brickhouse
Professor
Wilson Hall 119
Office Hours: M 1:00-3:00
Thurs 12:00-1:00
Class Schedule: M 3:30-6:00
Specialties:
American, Early American, Hemispheric American
Degrees
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Ph.D. Columbia, 1998
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M.A. Columbia, 1992
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B.A. University of Virginia, 1990
Books
- The Unsettlement of America: Translation, Interpretation, and the Story of Don Luis de Velasco, 1560-1945, Oxford University Press, 2014
- Transamerican Literary Relations and the Nineteenth-Century Public Sphere, Cambridge University Press, 2005
Recent Articles
- “Haiti,” essay for Critical Terms for Southern Studies, ed. Jennifer Greeson and Scott Romine (forthcoming)
- “Humanism and the (Other) American Revolution” in Humanism and Revolution: Eighteenth-Century Europe and Its Transatlantic Legacy (Heidelberg UP, 2015)
- “Mistranslation, Unsettlement, and La Navidad,” PMLA (October 2014)
- “The Transamerican Novel,” The American Novel: Beginnings to 1870, Oxford History of the Novel series (2014)
- “Cabeza de Vaca, Lope de Oviedo, and Americas Exceptionalism” for Blackwell Companion to American Literary Studies (2011)
- “Writing Unsettlement,” special issue on Atlantic History in Clio: A Journal of Literature, History, and the Philosophy of History (2011)
- “Scholarship and the State: Robert Greenhow and Transnational American Studies 1848/2008.” American Literary History (Fall, 2008)
- "Hemispheric Jamestown." Hemispheric American Studies, ed. Caroline Levander and Robert Levine (Invited by editors, Rutgers University Press, 2008).
- "L’Ouragan de Flammes (The Hurricane of Flames): New Orleans and Transamerican Catastrophe, 1866/2005." American Quarterly (December 2007).
- "Autobiografia de un esclavo, 'El negro mártir,' and the Revisionist Geographies of Abolitionism." American Cultural Geographies, ed. Hsuan Hsu (Invited by editor; Delaware University Press, 2007).
Book Awards
For The Unsettlement of America, Oxford University Press 2014:
- Annual James Russell Lowell Prize from the MLA (2015)
- Inaugural Prize in Early American Literature from the Society of Early Americanists and and the MLA's Division on American Literature to 1800 (2015)
- Honorable Mention for the John Hope Franklin Award, American Studies Association (2015)
For Transamerican Literary Relations and the Nineteenth-Century Public Sphere, Cambridge University Press, 2004:
- Gustave Arlt Award for Best First Book in the Humanities, Council of Graduate Schools (2005)
- Honorable Mention for the Lora Romero Award, American Studies Association (2005)
