Courtney Weikle-Mills

Assistant Professor of English

CL 628-G

Courtney Weikle-Mills specializes in early American children’s literature and culture. Her interests include readership and literacy, theories of citizenship, the novel, transatlanticism, childhood studies, and the history of the book. She has written an article, forthcoming from Early American Literature, on child readers and the eighteenth-century imagination of citizenship as “affectionate.” Her current book project, which traces the child reader from the seventeenth century to the mid-nineteenth century, considers how and why children came to be central figures in the formation of the American reading public, instigating larger shifts in the cultural understanding of literature and citizenship.

She teaches courses on children’s literature and culture from a variety of periods, as well as classes on eighteenth and nineteenth-century American literature.