INVENTING DESTINY

From the University Press of Kansas. The mythmakers of US expansion have expressed “manifest destiny” in many different ways—and so have its many discontents. A multidisciplinary study that delves into these contrasts and contradictions, Inventing Destiny offers a broad yet penetrating cultural history of nineteenth-century US territorial acquisition—a history that gives voice to the underrepresented actors who significantly complicated US narratives of empire, from Native Americans and Anglo-American women to anti- and non-national expansionists. The contributors—established and emerging scholars from history, American studies, literary studies, art history, and religious studies—make use of source materials and techniques as various as artwork, religion, geospatial analysis, interior colonialism, and storytelling alongside fresh readings of traditional historical texts. For more information see the Inventing Destiny  page

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CURRENTLY

I started writing on the Gothic Subversion of US Expansion book. Although I am a life-long adherent to social distancing, I admit that I am feeling a bit stir crazy as I shelter in place during this coronavirus outbreak. While I am committed to making my classes work online, I promised myself that I would reserve my foreseeable Wednesdays to "productivity." That is, I will focus on my research and writing projects. Today (Mar 25), I am pleased to say, I managed to write the first three "official" pages of this  book project (see more)

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ELSEWHERES

Taking a look at Frances Flora Palmer's Across the Continent (1868) featured on the cover of our anthology Inventiny Destiny. Click here.