CAROLINE WIGGINTON, PH.D.

Chair and ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH

Caroline Wigginton is associate professor of English at the University of Mississippi. She is the author of In the Neighborhood: Women’s Publication in Early America (Massachusetts 2016) and the co-editor of Transatlantic Feminisms in the Age of Revolutions (Oxford 2012). She is currently at work on a new book, Indigenuity: Native Craftwork and the Material of Early American Books, which examines the aesthetic, material, and imaginative influence of Native craftwork on American book history and decorative arts manuals. With Alyssa Mt. Pleasant and Kelly Wisecup, she co-edited a joint special issue forum for the William and Mary Quarterly and Early American Literature on Materials and Methods in Native and Indigenous Studies. Her publications have appeared in numerous journals and collections.

Gender Studies -Related Research Interests: Early American and Nineteenth-Century Women's Literatures; Indigenous Queer and Gender Studies; Histories of Feminism and Women's Activism