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Melissa Adams-Campbell

Assistant Professor

Early American Literature, Transatlantic and Transnational Colonial and Romantic Period Literature, Gender Studies

Office: ZH 1006
Phone: 753-6608
Email: madamscampbell@niu.edu

Educational Background


Ph.D. Indiana University, Bloomington, 2009

M.A. Indiana University, Bloomington, 2003


Professional Interests


I strive to foster ongoing scholarly and classroom discussions of American identities through historically grounded, transnational and intercultural approaches to American literature and culture. In both my teaching and research I seek to expand narrow definitions of American identity by extending the framework through which we see "American-ness" take shape, that is, looking beyond national borders and familiar cultural norms of difference to highlight surprising similarities in the formation of American identities and American literatures.

My research explores gender roles and marriage expectations spanning texts in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries from Scotland, Canada, New England and the Caribbean concentrating on indigenous, biracial, black and white colonial women in this period. My teaching follows through on this broad spectrum of scholarly interests.
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Selected Publications

  • "Romantic Revolutions: Love and Violence in Leonora Sansay's Secret History, or The Horrors of St. Domingo." Studies in American Fiction. (Forthcoming, Fall 2012).
  • National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute Fellow. "From Metacom to Tecumseh: Early Native American Resistances Movements." Newberry Library. 2010.
  • "Sympathetic Transports: Reading as Imaginative and Emotional Travel." Les Carnets du Cerpac n°5. Ed. Michèle Lurdos and Judith Misrahi-Barak. Service des Publications: Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier III, 2007.

Current Courses

CourseMeeting Days / Time / Room
Fall 2013ENGL 330.1 (details)
TTH / 9:30 - 10:45 / RH301
Fall 2013ENGL 399H.1 (details)
TTH / 11:00 - 12:15 / RH301
Spring 2013ENGL 693B.1 (details)
W / 6:00 - 8:40 / RH307
Spring 2013ENGL 330.1 (details)
MWF / 10:00 - 10:50 / RH 301
Fall 2011ENGL 676.0001 (details)
M / 6:00-8:40 / RH 302
Spring 2012ENGL 200.5 (details)
MWF / 12:00 - 12:50 / RH302
Spring 2012ENGL 330.1 (details)
MWF / 10:00 - 10:50 / RH302
Spring 2012ENGL 776.P1 (details)
W / 6:00 - 8:40 / RH303
Fall 2012ENGL 330.1 (details)
MWF / 10:00 - 10:50 / RH 301
Fall 2012ENGL 607.1 (details)
W / 6:00 - 8:40 / Rh201
Spring 2013ENGL 200.2 (details)
MWF / 11:00 - 11:50 / RH 301