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
Email: [email protected]
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
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Introduction: Revolutionary American Women Writers in Literary History
Vietto, A., Mar 2 2017, In: Default journal.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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A History of the Book in America. Vol. 2. An Extensive Republic:Print, Culture, and Society in the New Nation, 1790-1840 (review)
Vietto, A., Sep 22 2012, In: Early American Literature. 47Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The coquette; or, The history of Eliza Wharton ; and, The boarding school; or, Lessons of a preceptress to her pupils
Foster, H. W., Desiderio, J. & Vietto, A., Jan 1 2011Research output: Book/Report › Book
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Daughters of the Tenth Muse: New Histories of Women and Writing in Early America
Vietto, A., Jan 1 2006, In: Early American Literature. 41Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Memory's Daughters: The Material Culture of Remembrance in Eighteenth-Century America (review)
Vietto, A., Jun 29 2005, In: Legacy. 22Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Women and authorship in revolutionary America
Vietto, A., Jan 1 2005Research output: Book/Report › Book
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Early American writings
Mulford, C., Vietto, A. & Winans, A. E., Jan 1 2002Research output: Book/Report › Book
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Book Review: From Gloucester to Philadelphia in 1790: Observations, Anecdotes, and Thoughts from the 18th-Century Letters of Judith Sargent Murray, edited by Bonnie Hurd Smith
Vietto, A., Jan 1 1999, In: Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography. 123Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review