Kathryn Gray

Teaching interests

Early American Literature

Contemporary Native American Literature

Contemporary American Fiction

Transatlantic literature and culture in pre-Revolutionary America.

 

Research interests

Early American Literature

Early American Natural History Narratives

Contemporary Native American Literature

 

UoP Research group membership

Centre for Humanities, Music and Performing Arts Research (HuMPA) 
English and Creative Writing 
Transatlantic Exchanges Forum 

Other research
 

Grants & contracts

Small Research Grant from the British Academy: funded trips to the Bodleian Library, Dr Williams Library (London) and the Royal Society. (2009)

Californian Institute of Technology (Caltech) and Glasgow University: Research trip to the Huntington Library, California. (2003)

Malcolm Bradbury Award, for the best research proposal in the field of American Literary Studies: Research trip to the American Antiquarian Society, Massachusetts. (2002)

 

Publications
Monograph
Communities of Reception: John Eliot and Algonquian Indians of Massachusetts Bay Bucknell University Press, forthcoming.

Journal Articles / Online Publications
"‘How may wee come to serve God?’: Spaces of Religious Utterance in John Eliot’s Indian Tracts.” The Seventeenth Century 24: 1 (2009): 74-96

"Written and Spoken Words and Worlds: John Eliot’s Algonquian Translation” Symbiosis: A Journal of Anglo-American Literary Relations 7: 2 (2003) 241-260.

Literary Encyclopedia Online (Managing Editor, Robert Clark, University of East Anglia, Norwich) http://www.litencyc.com/LitEncycFrame.htm

    “N. Scott Momaday” (2000 words)

    “Reverend John Eliot” (600 words)

    “N. Scott Momaday’s House Made of Dawn” (2000 words)

Book Chapters
“ ‘keep wide awake in the eyes’: Seeing Eyes in Wendy Rose’s Poetry,” Transatlantic Voices: European Interpretations of Native American Literature. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2007.

“Captive and Captivating: The Spectacle of Animals in Early American Natural History” The Colonial Literatures of America (Eds) Susan Castillo and Ivy Schweitzer. Oxford: Blackwell, 2005.

Book Reviews
Laura Doyle, Freedom’s Empire: Race and the Rise of the Novel in Atlantic Modernity, 1640-1940. Duke University Press: Durham and London, 2008. (forthcoming in Symbiosis: A Journal of Anglo-American Literary Relations)

Susan Scott Parrish American Curiosity: Cultures of Natural History in the Colonial British Atlantic World (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press 2006) Journal of American Studies, Volume 42, Issue 02, Aug 2008, pp 377-377

Elizabeth L. Roark, Artists of Colonial America. London: Greenwood Press, 2003. Journal of American Studies 39 (2) 2005: 339

Special Relationships: Anglo-American affinities and antagonisms 1854-1936. Eds. Janet Beer and Bridget Bennet. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2002. Journal of Transatlantic Studies 1 (2) 2003: 254-255

Arnold Krupat The Turn to the Native: Studies in Criticism & Culture (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press 1998) Journal of American Studies, Volume 36, Issue 01, Apr 2002, pp 151-198

Conference Papers/ Seminars
UEA Research Seminar, "From First Fruits to Dying Speeches: John Eliot, praying Indians
and performances of faith in 17^th- century New England”                                                       Feb '09
 
Native Studies Research Network, The Institute for the Study of America,  London,
Title: “Recreating Puritan Confessions: Speech Situations of Praying Indians in
17^th century Massachusetts.”                                                                                             Sept' 07

British Association for American Studies (BAAS), annual conference                                April ‘05
Title: Natural Spectacles: Visualising and Exhibiting Early America’s Natural World.

British Association for American Studies (BAAS), annual conference                                 April ‘03
Title: Written and Spoken Wor(l)ds: John Eliot’s Algonquian Translations

Scottish Association for the Study of America (SASA), annual conference                               Nov ‘02
Title: Commonwealth Utopias and Book Burning: John Eliot’s
The Christian Commonwealth (1659) and Transatlantic Exchange

Transatlantic Studies Association, annual conference                                                          July ‘02
Title: Performance and the Transatlantic Text:  Eliot’s Tracts 1648-71

SASA, annual conference                                                                                                 Nov ‘01
Title: Performing Conversion Narratives in John Eliot’s Indian Tracts

Research Seminar, Graduate School of Arts and Humanities, Glasgow University                     April ‘00
Title: 16^th and 17^th century Promotional Pamphlets from the American Colonies

Chopin Colloquium, University of Glasgow, Crichton Campus                                                 Nov ‘99
Title: Through Another’s Eyes: Cultural Mediation and Racial Boundaries in Kate Chopin’s Early Short Stories

SASA, Postgraduate conference                                                                                          Oct ‘99
Title: Cultural Entanglement: Individual and Collective Identity in Louise Erdrich’s Jacklight and Baptism of Desire

BAAS, postgraduate conference                                                                                          Nov ‘99
Title: Who is your Father? Negotiating Genealogical and Cultural Origins in Tracks.

BAAS, annual conference                                                                                                     April ‘98 
Title: The Myth and Reality of Pocahontas in Colonial Writing