Amy Gore

Amy Gore’s scholarship and teaching specializes in early and nineteenth-century American and Native American literatures, with interests in book history, environmental studies, women and gender studies, multi-ethnic literature, the memoir, gothic literature, body studies, and archival recovery work. She received her doctoral degree at the University of New Mexico, and she also holds an M.A. in Native American Studies from Montana State University, an M.A. in English from the Bread Loaf School of English, Middlebury College, and a B.A. in English from Eastern University, PA.

Her first book, Book Anatomy: Body Politics and Materiality in Indigenous Book History (University of Massachusetts Press, 2023) theorizes the material relationships between books and bodies to claim the book itself as a form of embodied power relations between Native authors and the American publishing industry. She has a forthcoming second book project (University of Pennsylvania Press), co-edited with Dan Radus and titled Gatherings: New Directions in Indigenous Book History. She has recent or forthcoming work in a number of edited collections as well as Pedagogy, Studies in American Indian Literature, Resources for American Literary Study, Publications of the Bibliographical Society of America, and Western American Literature.

Her research, teaching, and mentoring have received multiple awards, including a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend, the Center for Regional Studies Hector Torres Fellowship, the Emerging Scholars Professional Development Fellowship from the Association for the Study of American Indian Literatures (ASAIL), and the Vogel Award in Teaching Excellence. She has been inducted into the Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography, in which she is now a Senior Fellow, and she has been invited to give public lectures by the American Antiquarian Society, the Grolier Club, and the Book Club of California. She serves in a number of national leadership positions, including as the book reviews editor for Textual Cultures and the incoming President for the Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography, and she stands on three editorial boards, including the preeminent journal in her field, Studies in American Indian Literature.

She also enjoys connecting to her local communities by volunteering her time in a number of capacities: giving museum tours at the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center in New Mexico; demonstrating historical printing on antique letterpress machines at Bonanzaville and the Braddock News Letterpress Museum in North Dakota; and fostering dogs with 4 Luv of Dog Rescue and the Minnesota Basset Rescue.

Early and nineteenth-century American and Native American literatures; book history; environmental studies; women and gender studies; multi-ethnic literature; the memoir; gothic literature; body studies; archival recovery work

English 892: Teaching Mentorship

English 792: Master’s Thesis

English 474/674: Native American Literature (3 sections)

English 476/676: Topics in American Literature: “Writing Outside: Race, Gender, and the Environmental Memoir” (Spring 2025)

English 476/676: Topics in American Literature: “Forgotten Genres of American Book History” (Spring 2020)

English 467: English Studies Capstone Experience (2 sections)

English 345: Themes in American Culture: “Reading the Body” (Fall 2023)

English 345: Themes in American Culture: “Citizenship and Suffrage” (Spring 2020)

English 336: Literature and the Environment

English 335: Multicultural Writers (3 sections)

English 317: American Literature I

English 262: American Literature II (2 sections)

English 261: American Literature I (3 sections)

English 220: Introduction to Literature

TIPS 101: Tribal and Indigenous Peoples Studies (co-taught, 4 sections)

Recent Research Awards:

• Reese Fellowship, Short-Term Visiting Academic Research Fellowships, American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, MA, 2024
• Bibliographical Society of America Event Award, in collaboration with Dr. Daniel Radus (“New Directions in Indigenous Book History,” March 23-24, 2023)
• National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend: Book Manuscript, “Material Matters: Books and Bodies in Indigenous Literary History, 1772-1936," 2021
• Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography, Rare Book School, University of Virginia (2020-2023)

Selected Teaching Awards:

• Recognition for Innovation in Teaching, North Dakota State University, 2024
• Vogel Award in Teaching Excellence, Department of English, North Dakota State University (2019-2020)
• Susan Deese-Roberts Outstanding Teaching Assistant of the Year, University of New Mexico (2018-2019, university-wide competition)
• Paul Davis and Cheryl Fresch Literature Teaching Award, Department of English, University of New Mexico (2015-2016)

Service Awards:

• Outstanding Peer Mentor, Department of English, University of New Mexico, 2015-2016
• Outstanding Peer Mentor, Department of English, University of New Mexico, 2014-2015

• American Antiquarian Society (Invite-only membership, elected in 2024)
• Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography (Promoted to Senior Fellow in 2023, Elected to Executive Council in 2025)
• Modern Language Association
• The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists
• Association for the Study of American Indian Literature
• The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States
• Western American Literature Association
• Society for the Study of American Women Writers
• Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing
• Native American and Indigenous Studies Association
• American Indian Library Association