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Phillip Round

American Literature

My research and teaching in American literature focuses on discursive crossings--the crossing of geographical and cultural boundaries, of oral traditions and manuscripts into print, of everyday early Americans from the meetinghouse to the marketplace. In my first book, By Nature and By Custom Cursed, I explored first-generation New England cultural formation from the point of view of a series of discourses involved in the crossing of English people to the new world, and from traditional, organic models of social order to the contractual interactions of an emerging civil society. In my future work, I will explore similar crossings in such diverse locations as a California desert borderland and the United States Constitutional Convention of 1787. In support of my work on American discursive formations I have been awarded a Fulbright Fellowship (1996) and the Andrew Oliver Research Fellowship at the Massachusetts Historical Society (1999).