Kathryn Walkiewicz

Ph.D. (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)

Assistant Professor of English Literature, 19th Century literatures and cultures of the United States

Primary Office: LIT 432
Primary Phone: 534-3488
Quarterly Office Hours

Email: kwalkiewicz@ucsd.edu

Kathryn Walkiewicz received her Ph.D. in English from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and her M.A. in English from the University of New Mexico. Her research and teaching interests include Native American and Indigenous studies, early U.S. literature and culture, nineteenth-century literature and culture, hemispheric studies, print culture, and formations of U.S. empire.

Affiliated Faculty, Ethnic Studies Department & Critical Gender Studies

Selected Publications
“Pressing for Sequoyah: Print Culture and the Indian Territory Statehood Movement” J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists, Forthcoming.

“Affirmative Exclusions: The Indigenous Exception in Oklahoma’s Official English” NAIS: Journal of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association 3, no. 2 (Winter 2016): 25-44.

Co-editor with Geary Hobson and Janet McAdams. The People Who Stayed: Southeastern Indian Writing
After Removal. The University of Oklahoma Press, 2010.

“Portraits and Politics: The Specter of Osceola in Leaves of Grass.” Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 25, no. 3 (Winter 2008): 108-115.