Theresa Strouth Gaul specializes in American Literature before 1900 and U.S. women’s writing. She is editor of To Marry An Indian:  The Marriage of Harriett Gold and Elias Boudinot in Letters, 1823-1839 (North Carolina, 2005) and Letters and Cultural Transformations in the United States, 1760-1860, co-edited with Sharon M. Harris (Ashgate 2009). Her articles on white-native contacts in the early republic and women’s writing have appeared in Arizona Quarterly, Prospects, ESQ, and ATQ, among others. She is co-editor of Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers.

Gaul was named the Women's Studies Program's Wise Woman of 2009, an award presented to the faculty member who best exemplifies the principles of women’s studies and helps to further the interests of women at TCU. The award recognizes faculty contributions both inside and outside of the classroom and is determined through student nominations and voting.

Her research and teaching interests include early and nineteenth-century American literature, women’s writing, the history of race in the U.S., early American Indian authors, and epistolarity. She is currently at work on projects exploring Elias Boudinot’s editing of the Cherokee Phoenix and women’s letters published within early American biographies. 

Selected publications

Books

Letters and Cultural Transformations in the United States, 1760-1860, co-edited
with Sharon M. Harris. (Ashgate Press, 2009)

To Marry An Indian:  The Marriage of Harriett Gold and Elias Boudinot in Letters,
1823-1839.(University of North Carolina Press, 2005.)

Articles

“Editing as Indian Performance: Elias Boudinot, Poetry, and the Cherokee Phoenix.” In Native Acts: Indian Performance in Early North America, eds. Joshua David Bellin and Laura L. Mielke. (University of Nebraska Press, forthcoming 2010.)

 “‘The Great, Radical Political Mistake’: Elias Boudinot’s 1837 Letter on Cherokee Removal.” LEAR: Literature in the Early Republic 2 ([forthcoming] 2009): 27-44.

"Recovering Recovery:  Early American Women and Legacy's Future."  Legacy 6.2 (2009):  262-83.

"Introduction" (co-authored with Sharon M. Harris).  In Letters and Cultural Transformations in the United States, 1760-1860, eds. Theresa Strouth Gaul and Sharon M. Harris.  Ashgate, 2009.  1-16. 

“Cherokee Catherine Brown’s Epistolary Performances.” In Letters and Cultural Transformation in the United States, 1760–1860, eds. Sharon M. Harris and Theresa Strouth Gaul. (Ashgate 2009). 139-60.

“Discordant Notes:  Longfellow’s Song of Hiawatha, Community, Race, and Performance Politics.” Journal of American Culture 24.7 (2004): 406-15. 

“Trance-formations:  Mesmerism and ‘A Woman’s Power’ in Louisa May Alcott’s Behind a Mask.” Women’s Studies:  An Interdisciplinary Journal 32.7 (2003):  835-51.

“Romance and ‘the Genuine Indian’:  The Politics of Genre in Cooper’s Novels.” ESQ:  A Journal of the American Renaissance 48.3 (2002) 159-86.  

“Captivity, Childbirth, and the Civil War in Harriet Spofford's ‘Circumstance.’”  Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers 19.1 (2002):  35-43. 

 “‘Equal Communion’:  Racial Hierarchy and Gender Identity in Ann Stephens’ Malaeska.” Prospects:  An Annual Journal of American Cultural Studies 27 (2002): 121-35.

"Genre and Public Discourse in William Apess's Indian Nullification.”  ATQ: 19th Century American Literature and Culture 15.3 (2001):  276-92. 

 “‘The Genuine Indian Brought Upon the Stage’: Edwin Forrest’s Metamora and White Audiences.” Arizona Quarterly 56.1 (2000):  1-27.

“‘My goodness such a getting to Oregon’:  Women’s Overland Diaries and the Negotiation of Discourses.”  Lit:  Literature/Interpretation Theory 7.2-3 (1996):  197-212.  Revised and reprinted as "'Some is Reading Some Writing':  Emigrant Authors on the Oregon Trail" in Moving Stories: Migration and the American West:  1850-2000.  Ed. Scott E. Casper.  Reno:  University of Nevada Press, 2001.  3-21.