Cari Carpenter, Ph.D.
Program Committee
Eberly College of Arts and Sciences
Carpenter specializes in early Native American women writers and connections between
sovereignty, nationalism, and gender. An English professor, Carpenter teaches Literature
of Native America, Native American Women Writers, and Multiethnic Literature. Carpenter
engaged students in an educational travel experience as part of her Special Topics
course on Carlisle Indian School Legacies and in her Women's Literature class (an
Amizade Global Service Learning course, which she taught in Cochabamba, Bolivia).
She published Seeing Red: Anger, Sentimentality, and American Indians in 2008 (The
Ohio State University Press) and The Newspaper Warrior: Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins’s
Campaign for American Indian Rights, 1864-1891 (co-edited with Carolyn Sorisio),
published in 2015 by the University of Nebraska Press. Carpenter was awarded the
Susan Koppleman Award for the Best Anthology, Multi-Authored, or Edited Book in
Feminist Studies in Popular and American Culture by the Popular Culture Association/American
Culture Association. Carpenter’s fourth book is titled,
Selected Writings of Ora Eddleman Reed: Author, Editor, and Activist for Cherokee
Rights,
published by the University of Nebraska press
. In April 2021 Carpenter was named a Benedum Distinguished Scholar in recognition
of her exemplary contributions to the field of American Indian Studies and
women’s literature of the 19th-century United States.
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