Maria Windell

Maria Windell is an Associate Professor at the University of Colorado. Her research focuses on ethnic and transnational US literatures and history, with a particular emphasis on how writers of color and women navigated racialized and gendered violence through literary genres. She is the author of Transamerican Sentimentalism and Nineteenth-Century US Literary History (Oxford UP, 2020), which examines genre as a tool for marginalized voices. Her current project explores 19th-century US naval writings to connect the Middle East, Pacific, Caribbean, and US-Mexico borderlands, challenging traditional narratives of US imperialism as a reactive force shaped by global actors.

Her work appears in journals such as J19, Studies in American Fiction, and American Literary Realism. She co-edited a special issue of English Language Notes on 'Latinx Lives in Hemispheric Context.' Her research bridges postcolonial theory, transnationalism, and critical race studies.