Birgit Brander Rasmussen
Associate Professor
English, General Literature and Rhetoric
Background
Birgit Brander Rasmussen studies and teaches American literatures, colonial encounters, ancient literacies and new media.
She is the author of the award-winning book Queequeg鈥檚 Coffin: Indigenous Literacies and Early American Literature (Duke UP, 2012). Her next book is titled Signs of Resistance, Signs of Resurgence: Indigenous Literacies and New Media in Native American Literatures. Her work has appeared in anthologies and scholarly journals like PMLA and American Literature, Early American Literature, Journal of Transnational American Studies, Modern Language Quarterly, Journal of American Studies, Mississippi Quarterly, and Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies.
She is co-editor of The Making and Unmaking of Whiteness (Duke UP, 2001, Reprint 2012) and is co-editing a new critical edition of Mary Rowlandson鈥檚 foundational captivity narrative, A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson, by Mrs. Mary Rowlandson with Caroline Wigginton.
Education
- PhD, University of California Berkeley
Research Interests
- American Literatures
- Ancient Literacies and the History of Writing
- New Media
- Early American Studies
- Food Studies and Rematriation
- Medical Humanities
Teaching Interests
- American Literatures (Early, 19th century, 20th century and 21st century)
- New Media
- Early American Studies
- American Captivity Narratives
- Archival Research
- Community-Engaged and Place-Based Learning