Personal profile

About

Angela Vietto studies and teaches colonial and Revolutionary American literature, with interests in gender studies and publishing history. She is co-editor of an edition of The Coquette and The Boarding School, by Hannah Webster Foster (co-edited with Jennifer Desiderio and available from Broadview Press).  She is also author of Women and Authorship in Revolutionary America (Ashgate), and associate editor of Early American Writings (Oxford). 

Contact Information

Office: 3341 - Coleman Hall
Phone: 2175812428
Fall 2020 Office Hours (all virtual):  For students: Mondays 9-10 a.m. and Thursdays 5:30-6:00 p.m. Students may also phone or text Dr. Vietto's cell phone between 9 a.m.-9 p.m. All others, please call the department office for an appointment: 217-581-2428.

Education/Academic qualification

Ph.D., Penn State University

Research Interests

  • Eighteenth-century American literature
  • gender and authorship
  • book history
  • historical fiction

Disciplines

  • English Language and Literature