DR. MARIA
KARAFILIS
DEPARTMENT OF
Education
Ph.D.: English Language and Literature,
M.A.: English Language and Literature,
B.A.: English Literature,
Publications
"The American Novel to 1860." In Companion
to the American Novel. Forthcoming from Blackwell
Publishers.
“Abraham Cahan.” Forthcoming
in Thomson
“Oratory,
Embodiment, and US Citizenship in Sutton E. Griggs’s Imperium in Imperio.” African American Review Spring 2006. Awarded honorable mention
for the Darwin T. Turner prize for best essay in
"Catharine Maria Sedgwick." In Writers of the
American Renaissance.
Catharine Maria Sedgwick's The Linwoods or, "Sixty Years Since in America." Edited and with an introduction by Maria Karafilis. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 2002.
"Godey's Lady's Book: A Review of the Web Versions." SiteScene: Web Site Reviews for the American Studies Association. <http://www.georgetown.edu/crossroads/asw/sitescene9.html#women.> Fall 1999.
"Reterritorializing the
Space of Democracy in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Dred: A Tale of the Great
"Catharine Maria Sedgwick’s Hope Leslie:
The Crisis Between Ethical Political Action and
"Crossing the Borders of Genre: Revisions of the Bildungsroman in Sandra Cisneros’s
The House on
Presentations
“Managing the Vortex: Trauma,
Race, and Return.” American Literature Association,
“The Traumatic Sublime and American
Democracy.” American Studies Association,
"Sacrifice, the Sublime, and Democratic Ethics." American Literature Association, San Francisco, CA, May 2004.
Historical Realities and Literary Constructions.
Chair, American Literature Association, San Francisco, CA, May 2004.
Sentimentalism through the Lens of Lesser Known Works.
Chair, American Literature Association, San Francisco, CA, May 2004.
"Trauma, Forgetting, and Early American Literature," CSLA Munitz Lecture, Winter 2004.
"Trauma, Race, and the Unassimilated."
American Studies Association,
Literary Revisions and Political Revolutions.
Chair, Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association, Santa Clara, CA,
November 2001.
"Romancing the Republic: Catharine Maria
Sedgwick's The Linwoods."
American Literature Association,
"Discord, Conciliation, and the Nullification Crisis in Catharine Maria Sedgwick's The Linwoods." Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association, Los Angeles, CA, November 2000.
"The Boston Ghetto and the Americanization of Space in Mary Antin’s The Promised Land." Modern Language Association, Chicago, IL, December 1999.
"Racial Anxiety and Fear of Conspiracy in Antebellum
"Antebellum
"Catharine Maria Sedgwick’s Hope
Leslie: The Crisis Between Ethical Political
Action and
"Reconstructing the Nation: Negotiating Local,
National, and Transnational Spaces in American Literature."
Chair, Midwest Modern Language Association,
"Reterritorializing the
Space of Democracy in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Dred." American Literature Association,
"Neither Here Nor There: Achieving Bildung in Novels by Women of Color." Midwest Modern Language Association, Minneapolis, MN, November 1996.
"Dialogues Across the
"Voice, Citizenship, and Sutton Griggs’s
Imperium in Imperio."
International Association for Philosophy and Literature,
Teaching and Research Interests
Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century U.S. Literature
U.S. Ethnic Literatures
Women’s Writing
Theory of the Novel
Professional Organizations
American Literature Association
American Studies Association
Modern Language Association
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association