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Kelly Wisecup is the Arthur E. Andersen Teaching and Research Professor of English at Northwestern University's Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences. Her work bridges early American studies, Native American and Indigenous Studies, and book history. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Maryland and is a non-Native scholar collaborating with Indigenous communities on research and public humanities projects.
Wisecup's research focuses on Indigenous literatures, colonial archives, and the intersection of science and literature. She has authored or edited major works like Assembled for Use (2021) and co-edited Plymouth Colony (2022). Her work has been supported by grants from the Mellon Foundation, NEH, and others.
- Awards: American Antiquarian Society member, NEH fellowships, Mellon Foundation grants
- Leadership: Co-directed Northwestern’s Center for Native American and Indigenous Research (2018–2020), serves on the Society of Early Americanists executive committee
- Public Engagement: Archive Chicago project, Indigenous Mississippi collaboration, AIC Community Archives initiative
Her teaching emphasizes textual editing, material texts, and digital humanities. She advises graduate students in early American literatures, Indigenous studies, and archival theory.
