Vanessa Steinroetter

Contact

Morgan Hall

Rm 131

1700 SW College Ave

Topeka, KS 66621-1117

785-670-1734

vanessa.steinroetter@washburn.edu

Degrees & Certifications

Cath Unv Eichstaett-Ingolstadt, Master of Arts

Univ of Nebraska at Lincoln, Doctor of Philosophy

Academic History

Washburn University, Assistant Professor of English, 2011-present.

University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Teaching Assistant, 2007-2011.

Nebraska Wesleyan University, Adjunct Instructor, 2006-2007.

Catholic University of Eichstaett, Germany, Adjunct Instructor, 2005-2006.

Teaching

• EN 110 A, American Ethnic Literature
• EN 300 VC, Advanced Composition
• EN 300 VD, Advanced Composition
• EN 300 VG, Advanced Composition
• EN 300 VH, Advanced Composition
• EN 330 A, American Lit I
• EN 332 A, Lit Of American West

Scholarly Interests/Activities

Nineteenth-century American literature and print culture, especially of the antebellum era and Civil War; periodical literature; history of the book; women's literature; Digital Humanities; American ethnic literature; transatlantic literary studies and translation studies.

Service Interests/Activities

Campus Content Manager for the English Department website; member of the WU Diversity Initiative; English Department literature emphasis committee; member of the International Center at WU.

Career Accomplishments

  

Journal Articles:

• "'Reading the List:' Casualty Lists and Civil War Poetry," ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance (Forthcoming in Spring 2013).
•  "'Pioneers! O Pioneers!' and Whitman's Early German Translators," 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century 9 (2009). 
• "The Politics of Humor: Max Cohnheim’s Columbia (1863-1873), a German Newspaper in the Nation’s Capital," American Periodicals: A Journal of History, Criticism, & Bibliography 19.1 (Spring 2009): 21-48.
• "A Newly-Discovered Translation of Louisa May Alcott’s 'My Contraband' in a German American Newspaper," New England Quarterly 81.4 (December 2008): 703–713.

Other Publications:

• Chapter on Civil War literature in Civil War America: A Social and Cultural History, edited by Maggi Morehouse and Zoe Trodd. London: Routledge, October 2012.
• "'Leaving it to you to prove and define': 'Poets to Come' and Whitman's German Translators," an essay co-authored with Prof. Walter Gruenzweig and solicited by the Walt Whitman Archive for its translation section (August 2012).

Recent Conference Presentations:

• "A 'Great Army of Letters': Letter Writing and Patriotic Duty in Women’s Literature of the Civil War." Fifth Conference of the Society for the Study of American Women Writers (SSAWW), Denver, October 10-13, 2012.
• "Soldiers, Readers, and the Reception of Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables in Civil War America." American Literature Association (ALA) Conference, San Francisco, May 25-28, 2012.
• "Dead Letters, Absent Bodies, and the Uncertainty of (Re-)Union: Representations of Letter Reading in American Literature of the Civil War." Reception Study Society (RSS) Conference, Maryville, MO, September 2011.

Other Accomplishments and Awards:

• Contributing editor for the Walt Whitman Archive
• Caleb Loring, Jr. Fellow at the Boston Athenaeum, 2010-2011
• P.E.O. Scholar Award, 2009-2010