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MLA Honored Scholar of Early American Literature, 2310 Ivy Schweitzer The MLA’s Division for American Literature before 1800 is charged with recognizing the extraordinary contributions of scholars to the field of early American studies. The Executive Committee for 2013 has unanimously named Ivy Schweitzer, professor of English and women’s and gender studies at Dartmouth College, as the Honored Scholar of Early American Literature for 2013. This award is only given on rare occasions, but Professor Schweitzer’s record of scholarship, teaching, and service to our field makes her richly deserving of the honor. Schweitzer’s first book, e Th Work of Self- R epresentation: Lyric Poetry in Colonial New England (1991), energized the field of early American studies through its theoretically informed and historically grounded analysis of the gender politics of Puritan poetry and culture. Her second book, Perfect- ing Friendship: Politics and Affiliation in Early American Literature (2007), established how a classical model of friendship became a crucial public and political ideal in our period, and demonstrated how racial, class, and gender differences in friendship tested the limits of egalitarian democracy. Her most recent manuscript, American Impersonations: Revisiting Feminist Literary Strategies, draws on and extends Schweitzer’s decades- lo ng com-
Early American Literature – University of North Carolina Press
Published: Nov 8, 2013
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