Kelly Wisecup
Biographic Data
| ID | 1071256 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kelly Wisecup |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kelly |
| FAMILY NAME | Wisecup |
| SIGNATURE | WISECUP K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Moscow State University of Technologies and Management named after K.G. Razumovskiy |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The New Nineteenth-Century American Literary Studies
The New Nineteenth-Century American Literary Studies takes stock of critical developments over the past twenty years, offering a fresh examination of key interpretative issues in this field. In eclectic fashion, it presents a wide range of new approaches in such areas as print and material culture, Black studies, Latinx studies, disability studies, gender and sexuality studies, postsecular studies, and Indigenous studies. This volume also maps ou…
Indigenous Chicago . The Newberry Library, Chicago, Illinois
Speaking for the People
Reviewed by: Speaking for the People: Native Writing and the Question of Political Form by Mark Rifkin Kelly Wisecup (bio) Speaking for the People: Native Writing and the Question of Political Form by Mark Rifkin Duke University Press, 2021 speaking for the people focuses on four nineteenth-century Native American writers: Elias Boudinot (Cherokee), William Apess (Pequot), Sarah Winnemucca (Paiute), and Gertrude Bonnin/Zitkala-Ša (Yankton Dakota)…
Caribbean Literature in Transition, 1800–1920
This volume examines what Caribbean literature looked like before 1920 by surveying the print culture of the period. The emphasis is on narrative, including an enormous range of genres, in varying venues, and in multiple languages of the Caribbean. Essays examine lesser-known authors and writing previously marginalized as nonliterary: popular writing in newspapers and pamphlets; fiction and poetry such as romances, sentimental novels, and ballads…
Telling Our Story
This interview highlights the work of Paula Peters, a Wampanoag historian and journalist, to center Wampanoag timelines and homelands in stories of Plymouth Colony. This work revises the current emphasis, among scholars, publishers, and public-facing institutions, on 1620 and on Plymouth Colony as origins points in regional and national histories. Several years before the 2020 commemorations of the Plymouth colonists' settlement at Patuxet, on Wa…
Resisting Archival Nostalgia
Our Beloved Kin
In the past several decades, research on early Native American literature has blossomed in monographs, scholarly and teaching editions of primary texts, archival seminars, and conference panel series. These initiatives and the ensuing scholarship have created an expansive subfield of “early Native studies” that is in conversation with both early American studies and Native American and Indigenous studies. Building on the work of formative texts, …
“Meteors, Ships, Etc.”
In his 1893 book Life and Traditions of the Red Man, the Penobscot Abenaki man Joseph Nicolar offers an account of Penobscot encounters with colonists in the seventeenth century. In the book, the Penobscots confront a mystifying fog that covers the earth and creates a famine, during which time the people suffer poor health and altered access to resources, becoming increasingly “desperate” and “disheartened” in their attempts to find food (99). Th…
Materials and Methods in Native American and Indigenous Studies
Nearly two centuries ago, Native scholars and activists published calls for histories of their people that emphasized their humanity and agency and engaged Indigenous intellectual traditions. Renewing and extending their calls, this William and Mary Quarterly and Early American Literature joint Forum challenges early American studies to embrace the materials and methods of Native American and Indigenous Studies (NAIS). In the Forum introduction, …
Bureaucracy
Bureaucracy usually only becomes visible when it stops working—when a system fails, when an event gets off schedule, when someone points to a problem or glitch in a carefully calibrated workflow. But Bureaucracy: A Love Story draws together research done by scholars and students in the Special Collections at the University of North Texas to illuminate how bureaucracy structures our contemporary lives across a range of domains. People have navigat…
Practicing Sovereignty
Practicing Sovereignty:Colonial Temporalities, Cherokee Justice, and the "Socrates" Writings of John Ridge Kelly Wisecup (bio) BETWEEN 1828 AND 1830, a Cherokee writer using the pseudonym Socrates penned four articles for the Cherokee Phoenix. Three pieces appeared in 1828, just after Elias Boudinot began editing and publishing the Cherokee- and English-language newspaper. In a two-part commentary on Georgia's claims to Cherokee land published in…
Interview
In the midst of her work on a highly anticipated forthcoming book on obeah, Diana Paton agreed to have a conversation with us about her new and existing work, about law as a context through which t
On knowing and not knowing about obeah
This essay introduces Obeah: knowledge, power, and writing in the early Atlantic World, a special issue responding to recent scholarly interest in obeah and related creole and African-derived medical and religious practices common among enslaved Africans in the pre-emancipation Caribbean. It describes obeah and the epistemological conundrum it posed for colonists in the global Atlantic world, outlining possibilities for how scholars might study t…
All Apollo’s Arts”
This article examines how British American physicians appropriated classical connections between poetry and medicine to heal colonial bodies and to defend colonial identity and poetry. In the western tradition, Apollo, the Greek god of healing and poetry, spoke words that soothed the mind and healed the body. Eighteenth-century poet-physicians in England revived these classical connections between medicine and literature by writing poems that ple…
Encounters, Objects and Commodity Lists in Early English Travel Narratives
This article reconsiders the construction and significance of commodity and word lists in early travel narratives from the Americas by examining the meanings that objects accrued in cross-cultural encounters and their representation in lists. I focus in particular upon English colonist James Rosier's True Relation of the most prosperous voyage made this present yeere 1605, by Captaine George Waymouth, in the discovery of the land of Virginia, whi…
Knowing obeah
This article reconsiders the archive of colonial literatures about obeah, an Afro-Caribbean religious and medical practice that enslaved Africans employed for a variety of purposes, including healing, discovering deceit, and poisoning people, and that colonists associated with insurrection after Tacky's Rebellion in 1760. Scholars have argued that the literatures of obeah constructed meanings for obeah as witchcraft and as a deceitful practice; a…
Science and the Atlantic World in Early American Literary Studies
Although scientific literatures by British American colonists have not traditionally been included in studies of early American literature, recent work has begun to pay closer attention to the literary elements of natural, medical, and cartographic texts produced in the long 18th century. New approaches have expanded Eurocentric and nation‐based paradigms by positioning colonial science in an imperial and Atlantic World context that focuses upon …
The history of Atlantic science
Let's Get Semiotic”
Materials and Methods in Native American and Indigenous Studies
Nearly two centuries ago, Native scholars and activists published calls for histories of their people that emphasized their humanity and agency and engaged Indigenous intellectual traditions. Renewing and extending their calls, this William and Mary Quarterly and Early American Literature joint Forum challenges early American studies to embrace the materials and methods of Native American and Indigenous Studies (NAIS). In the Forum introduction, …
On knowing and not knowing about obeah
This essay introduces Obeah: knowledge, power, and writing in the early Atlantic World, a special issue responding to recent scholarly interest in obeah and related creole and African-derived medical and religious practices common among enslaved Africans in the pre-emancipation Caribbean. It describes obeah and the epistemological conundrum it posed for colonists in the global Atlantic world, outlining possibilities for how scholars might study t…
The history of Atlantic science
Telling Our Story
This interview highlights the work of Paula Peters, a Wampanoag historian and journalist, to center Wampanoag timelines and homelands in stories of Plymouth Colony. This work revises the current emphasis, among scholars, publishers, and public-facing institutions, on 1620 and on Plymouth Colony as origins points in regional and national histories. Several years before the 2020 commemorations of the Plymouth colonists' settlement at Patuxet, on Wa…
Knowing obeah
This article reconsiders the archive of colonial literatures about obeah, an Afro-Caribbean religious and medical practice that enslaved Africans employed for a variety of purposes, including healing, discovering deceit, and poisoning people, and that colonists associated with insurrection after Tacky's Rebellion in 1760. Scholars have argued that the literatures of obeah constructed meanings for obeah as witchcraft and as a deceitful practice; a…
Science and the Atlantic World in Early American Literary Studies
Although scientific literatures by British American colonists have not traditionally been included in studies of early American literature, recent work has begun to pay closer attention to the literary elements of natural, medical, and cartographic texts produced in the long 18th century. New approaches have expanded Eurocentric and nation‐based paradigms by positioning colonial science in an imperial and Atlantic World context that focuses upon …
Let's Get Semiotic”
Let's Get Semiotic”
The history of Atlantic science
Science and the Atlantic World in Early American Literary Studies
Although scientific literatures by British American colonists have not traditionally been included in studies of early American literature, recent work has begun to pay closer attention to the literary elements of natural, medical, and cartographic texts produced in the long 18th century. New approaches have expanded Eurocentric and nation‐based paradigms by positioning colonial science in an imperial and Atlantic World context that focuses upon …
Encounters, Objects and Commodity Lists in Early English Travel Narratives
This article reconsiders the construction and significance of commodity and word lists in early travel narratives from the Americas by examining the meanings that objects accrued in cross-cultural encounters and their representation in lists. I focus in particular upon English colonist James Rosier's True Relation of the most prosperous voyage made this present yeere 1605, by Captaine George Waymouth, in the discovery of the land of Virginia, whi…
Knowing obeah
This article reconsiders the archive of colonial literatures about obeah, an Afro-Caribbean religious and medical practice that enslaved Africans employed for a variety of purposes, including healing, discovering deceit, and poisoning people, and that colonists associated with insurrection after Tacky's Rebellion in 1760. Scholars have argued that the literatures of obeah constructed meanings for obeah as witchcraft and as a deceitful practice; a…
All Apollo’s Arts”
This article examines how British American physicians appropriated classical connections between poetry and medicine to heal colonial bodies and to defend colonial identity and poetry. In the western tradition, Apollo, the Greek god of healing and poetry, spoke words that soothed the mind and healed the body. Eighteenth-century poet-physicians in England revived these classical connections between medicine and literature by writing poems that ple…
Interview
In the midst of her work on a highly anticipated forthcoming book on obeah, Diana Paton agreed to have a conversation with us about her new and existing work, about law as a context through which t
On knowing and not knowing about obeah
This essay introduces Obeah: knowledge, power, and writing in the early Atlantic World, a special issue responding to recent scholarly interest in obeah and related creole and African-derived medical and religious practices common among enslaved Africans in the pre-emancipation Caribbean. It describes obeah and the epistemological conundrum it posed for colonists in the global Atlantic world, outlining possibilities for how scholars might study t…
Bureaucracy
Bureaucracy usually only becomes visible when it stops working—when a system fails, when an event gets off schedule, when someone points to a problem or glitch in a carefully calibrated workflow. But Bureaucracy: A Love Story draws together research done by scholars and students in the Special Collections at the University of North Texas to illuminate how bureaucracy structures our contemporary lives across a range of domains. People have navigat…
Practicing Sovereignty
Practicing Sovereignty:Colonial Temporalities, Cherokee Justice, and the "Socrates" Writings of John Ridge Kelly Wisecup (bio) BETWEEN 1828 AND 1830, a Cherokee writer using the pseudonym Socrates penned four articles for the Cherokee Phoenix. Three pieces appeared in 1828, just after Elias Boudinot began editing and publishing the Cherokee- and English-language newspaper. In a two-part commentary on Georgia's claims to Cherokee land published in…
“Meteors, Ships, Etc.”
In his 1893 book Life and Traditions of the Red Man, the Penobscot Abenaki man Joseph Nicolar offers an account of Penobscot encounters with colonists in the seventeenth century. In the book, the Penobscots confront a mystifying fog that covers the earth and creates a famine, during which time the people suffer poor health and altered access to resources, becoming increasingly “desperate” and “disheartened” in their attempts to find food (99). Th…
Materials and Methods in Native American and Indigenous Studies
Nearly two centuries ago, Native scholars and activists published calls for histories of their people that emphasized their humanity and agency and engaged Indigenous intellectual traditions. Renewing and extending their calls, this William and Mary Quarterly and Early American Literature joint Forum challenges early American studies to embrace the materials and methods of Native American and Indigenous Studies (NAIS). In the Forum introduction, …
Our Beloved Kin
In the past several decades, research on early Native American literature has blossomed in monographs, scholarly and teaching editions of primary texts, archival seminars, and conference panel series. These initiatives and the ensuing scholarship have created an expansive subfield of “early Native studies” that is in conversation with both early American studies and Native American and Indigenous studies. Building on the work of formative texts, …
Caribbean Literature in Transition, 1800–1920
This volume examines what Caribbean literature looked like before 1920 by surveying the print culture of the period. The emphasis is on narrative, including an enormous range of genres, in varying venues, and in multiple languages of the Caribbean. Essays examine lesser-known authors and writing previously marginalized as nonliterary: popular writing in newspapers and pamphlets; fiction and poetry such as romances, sentimental novels, and ballads…
Telling Our Story
This interview highlights the work of Paula Peters, a Wampanoag historian and journalist, to center Wampanoag timelines and homelands in stories of Plymouth Colony. This work revises the current emphasis, among scholars, publishers, and public-facing institutions, on 1620 and on Plymouth Colony as origins points in regional and national histories. Several years before the 2020 commemorations of the Plymouth colonists' settlement at Patuxet, on Wa…
Resisting Archival Nostalgia
Speaking for the People
Reviewed by: Speaking for the People: Native Writing and the Question of Political Form by Mark Rifkin Kelly Wisecup (bio) Speaking for the People: Native Writing and the Question of Political Form by Mark Rifkin Duke University Press, 2021 speaking for the people focuses on four nineteenth-century Native American writers: Elias Boudinot (Cherokee), William Apess (Pequot), Sarah Winnemucca (Paiute), and Gertrude Bonnin/Zitkala-Ša (Yankton Dakota)…
The New Nineteenth-Century American Literary Studies
The New Nineteenth-Century American Literary Studies takes stock of critical developments over the past twenty years, offering a fresh examination of key interpretative issues in this field. In eclectic fashion, it presents a wide range of new approaches in such areas as print and material culture, Black studies, Latinx studies, disability studies, gender and sexuality studies, postsecular studies, and Indigenous studies. This volume also maps ou…
Indigenous Chicago . The Newberry Library, Chicago, Illinois
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