William Huntting Howell
Assistant Professor
A.B. Cornell University; Ph.D. Northwestern University

huntting@gmail.com

Teaching and Research Interests: American literature and culture before 1900; science and technology studies; visual
and material culture; gender studies; digital humanities; critical theory.

Selected Publications: "A More Perfect Copy: David Rittenhouse and the Reproduction of Republican Virtue," /The William and Mary Quarterly/, 3d Series, Vol. LXIV, No. 4 (October 2007): 757-790 ; "Spirits of Emulation: Readers, Samplers, and the Republican Girl, 1787-1810," /American Literature/ (forthcoming, September 2009); "Entering the Lists: The Politics of Ephemera in Eastern Massachusetts, 1774," /Early American Studies/ (forthcoming, 2010).

Manuscript in Progress: American Unexceptionalism: Imitation, Emulation, and Literary Culture in the Early United States

Honors, Grants, and Awards: Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship, McNeil Center for Early American Studies, University of Pennsylvania, 2006-2008; Jean H. Hagstrum Prize for Best Doctoral Dissertation, Department of English, Northwestern University, 2006; Josephine De Kármán Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, 2004-2005; Winterthur Fellowship, Winterthur Museum, Garden, and Library, 2004; John C. Slater Resident Research Fellowship, American Philosophical Society, 2004; Teacher-Mentor Award, Department of English, Northwestern University, 2003.