Hyde, Carrie
Assistant Professor
Humanities 149
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Education

B.A. Bard College, 2004
Ph.D. English, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, 2011


Interests

Early U.S. literature, political philosophy and theory, the aesthetics of disaffiliation, literature of slavery and abolition, citizenship, law and literature, historical method.


Selected Publications

“Outcast Patriotism: The Dilemma of Negative Instruction in ‘The Man Without a Country,’” ELH (Winter 2010), 915-939.

Review of Jane G. Landers’s Atlantic Creoles in the Age of Revolutions and Julia Sun-Joo Lee’s The American Slave Narrative and the Victorian Novel, American Literature (September 2011).


Additional Information

Carrie Hyde specializes in early U.S. literature, politics, and law.  Her research has been supported by numerous grants, including fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, and the American Antiquarian Society. In 2011-2012 she is working as a postdoctoral fellow at the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney. Her current book project, Alienable Rights, tracks the rhetorical development of U.S. citizenship from the ratification of the Constitution to the passage of the Fourteenth Amendment.