Caroline Wigginton
Caroline Wigginton is Chair and Professor of English at the University of Mississippi and Executive Coordinator of the Society of Early Americanists. She specializes in the study of earlier American literatures, Native American and Indigenous Studies, and critical bibliography and material cultures. She is the author most recently of Indigenuity: Native Craftwork and the Art of American Literatures (UNC, 2022), and her work has appeared in a variety of academic journals. Her first monograph, In the Neighborhood: Women’s Publication in Early America (Massachusetts, 2016), received the Early American Literature Book Prize in 2018. With Alyssa Mt. Pleasant and Kelly Wisecup, she co-edited an award-winning joint forum for the William and Mary Quarterly and Early American Literature on Materials and Methods in Native and Indigenous Studies. Originally from Ohio, she is a graduate of The Ohio State University, with a B.A. in English and a B.S. in Biochemistry. She received her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin.