Kristie Hamilton
- Associate Professor Emerita, English
Education
- PhD, University of Texas at Austin
- MA, Arizona State University
Teaching Interests
- American literature and culture: colonial, 18th and 19th centuries
- Contemporary ethnic literature
- Women's writing
- Sentimental and sensationalist fiction
- Print culture Historical materialist theories of literature and culture
- Gender studies
- Regional literatures of the Americas
Selected Publications
Hamilton, Kristie G. “Hawthorne, Modernity, and the Literary Sketch” The Cambridge Companion to Nathaniel Hawthorne Ed. Nillington, Richard H. NY: Cambridge University Press. (2004): 99-120.
Hamilton, Kristie G. “Fauns and Mohicans: Narratives of Extinction and Hawthorne's Aesthetic of Modernity” Roman Holidays: Hawthorne, James and Others in Italy Ed. Martin, Robert K., and Person , Leland S. University of Iowa Press. (2002): 41-59.
Hamilton, Kristie G. America's Sketchbook: The Cultural Life of a Nineteenth-Century Literary Genre 1998.
Hamilton, Kristie G. “The Politics of Survival: Sara Parton's Ruth Hall and the Literature of Labor” Redefining the Political Novel: American Women Writers 1797-1901 Ed. Harris, Sharon M. University of Tennessee Press. (1995): 86-108.
Hamilton, Kristie G. “Toward a Cultural Theory of the Antebellum Literary Sketch” Genre 23. (1990): 297-323.
Hamilton, Kristie G. “An Assault on the Will: Republican Virtue and the City in Hannah Webster Foster's The Coquette” Early American Literature 24. (1989): 135-151.