Angela Vietto
Professor of English and Chair, Department of English Office: 3341 - Coleman HallPhone: 217-581-2428
Email: arvietto@eiu.edu
INTRODUCTION
As the chair of the Department of English at EIU, I'm happy to be part of a long tradition of making the highest quality higher education not just available but accessible for an amazing group of students.
Education & Training
PhD, The Pennsylvania State University
Conference Presentations
Selected presentations:
Accepted, but conference cancelled due to Covid: “Teaching Early American Literature after Hamilton,” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, March 2020.
Panelist, “Being a Department Chair: The Trials, Tribulations, and Rewards,” American Literature Association, Boston, MA, May 24, 2019.
“Women Writers, Reputation, and the Monthly Anthology and Boston Review.” Society of Early Americanists Biennial Conference, Chicago, IL, June 18-21, 2015.
“Laughter and Silence: Narrating the Selling of Women in New York circa 1905.” International Conference on Narrative, Chicago, IL, Mar. 6, 2015.
“’I have never known the paternal name’: Family History in Poe’s Fictions.” Fourth International Edgar Allan Poe Conference. New York, NY, Feb. 27, 2015.
“English at the Normal School: An Alternative History of Professing English.” Modern Language Association annual conference, Chicago, January 11, 2014.
“Time, Art, and the Market: William Hill Brown and Mather Brown, Clockmaker’s Sons.” Charles Brockden Brown Society biannual conference, New York City, April 19, 2012. [paper read in absentia]
“Womanly Style in the Work of Charles Brockden Brown.” Midwest American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies conference, Madison, WI, Oct. 12, 2012.
“Sarah Wentworth Morton, the American Sappho at the Margin.” Society of Early Americanists Biennial Conference, Philadelphia, PA, March 4, 2011.
“ ‘Too well known’: Infamy and Identity in the Letters of Aaron Burr and Leonora Sansay.” Midwest Modern Language Association, Minneapolis, MN, November 14, 2008.
“Sarah Wentworth Morton and Changing Ideals of Authorship.” American Antiquarian Society Conference on Histories of Print, Manuscript, and Performance in America, Worcester, MA, June 11, 2005.
“Violence and Sentiment in Leonora Sansay’s Haiti.” Modern Language Association, Philadelphia, December 30, 2004.
“Mercy Otis Warren and the Decline of the Female Political Commentator.” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Colorado Springs, April 6, 2002.
“‘My reasons for assuming the masculine character’: Judith Sargent Murray’s Gendered Performances.” Modern Language Association, Chicago, December 1999.
Publications
Edited projects and monographs:
Edgar Huntly; or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker, by Charles Brockden Brown. Digital editingfor TypeWright, a project of 18th Connect, to enable data mining of 18th-century texts. Available by subscription athttp://www.18thconnect.org/search?o=typewright&q=edgar+huntly. 2014.
The Coquette and The Boarding School, by Hannah Webster Foster. An edition withcontemporary documents. Co-edited with Jennifer Desiderio. Broadview Press, 2011.
Early American Literature, 1776-1820. Research Guide to American Literature, Facts on File Library of American Literature. New York: Facts on File, 2010.
Women and Authorship in Revolutionary America. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing, 2006.
Early American Writings. General Editor, Carla Mulford; Associate Eds., Angela Vietto and Amy Winans. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
American Women Prose Writers to 1820, vol. 200 in Dictionary of Literary Biography series. Ed. Carla Mulford with Angela Vietto and Amy Winans. Washington, DC: Bruccoli Clark Layman, 1999.
Frequently Taught Courses
I teach undergraduate and graduate courses in literature, especially early American, some courses in professional writing, and structures of English and the history of English.
Research & Creative Interests
Eighteenth-century American literature, gender and authorship, book history, historical fiction.
Office Hours
By appointment: https://calendly.com/vietto/30min