Kathryn Walkiewicz

Kathryn Walkiewicz (pronounced walk-uh-wits) is an enrolled citizen of Cherokee Nation/ᏣᎳᎩᎯ ᎠᏰᎵ and Associate Professor of Literature. Their research and teaching interests include Native American and Indigenous studies, print culture, early American literature and culture, nineteenth-century American studies, Southern studies, speculative fiction, and horror. Professor Walkiewicz currently serves as Faculty Director of the Indigenous Futures Institute (IFI) at UC San Diego.

Pronouns: she/they

Languages: English

Books

• Reading Territory: Indigenous and Black Freedom, Removal, and the Nineteenth-Century State. University of North Carolina Press, 2023. 
• The People Who Stayed: Southeastern Indian Writing After Removal. University of Oklahoma Press, 2010. Co-edited with Geary Hobson and Janet McAdams.

Articles & Book Chapters

• “Reading for Ahyoka and Abigail: Women’s and Girl’s Indian Territory Passages.” Indigenous Media Ecologies. Edited by Jill Doerfler, Oliver Scheiding, and Cristina Stanciu. University of Nebraska Press (forthcoming 2026).
• “RoboKin and Technovation in Cherokee Speculative Fiction.” Transmotion (forthcoming 2025).
• “Interlocations.” American Literary History 37, no. 1 (Spring 2025): 135-146.
• “Territory.” Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth-Century Literature and Politics. Edited by John D. Kerkering. Cambridge University Press, 2025.
• “Grounding Nineteenth-Century Studies in Indigenous Studies.” New Nineteenth-Century Studies. Edited by Robert Levine and Russ Castronovo. Cambridge University Press, 2025. Co-written with Kelly Wisecup.
• “The Sentimentalist Terrain of Ora V. Eddleman Reed’s Twin Territories Fiction.” American Literature 96, no. 4 (December 2024): 547-577.
• “Indigeneity, El Caminos, and Werewolf Politics in Stephen Graham Jones’ Mongrels.” ASAP/Journal 6, no. 2 (2021): 403-30.
• “Pressing for Sequoyah: Print Culture and the Indian Territory Statehood Movement.” J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists 6, no. 2 (Fall 2018): 335-364.
• “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.
• “Portraits and Politics: The Specter of Osceola in Leaves of Grass.” Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 25, no. 3 (Winter 2008): 108-115.

Digital Humanities

• The Ojibwe Muzzeniegun Digital Edition Project. Co-PI with Barbara Bair, Angela Calcaterra, Jill Doerfler, Bradley Dubos, Katrina Phillips, Kai Pyle, Kelly Wisecup, and Rochelle Raineri Zuck. Supported by a Planning Grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC).

Collaborative Publications

• Transcription of the “New England Type and Stereotype Foundry Letterbook, 1825-1831” (355 pages) for the American Antiquarian Society. Transcribed with Bianca Negrete Coba, Yomira Varela Guadiana, and Vyxz Vasquez from 2022-2025. 
• “'Breathing Life into the Language': Indigenous Language Work, Archives, and Community.” Early American Literature 59.3 (2024): 641-665.
• “The Year in Conferences.” ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance 59, no. 1 (2013): 112-130. Co-authored with Annie Dwyer, Bill Hunt and Dominique Zino.

• Ph.D. in English, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2014
• Graduate Minor in American Indian Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2014
• M.A. in English, University of New Mexico, 2007
• Graduate Certificate, Department of Women’s Studies, University of New Mexico, 2007
• B.A. in English and Art History, Kenyon College, 2003