Constance Post

Director of Graduate Education, Department of English

Chair, Arts and Humanities, Interdisciplinary Graduate Studies Program

Director, London, Literature, and Theatre Study Abroad Program

My scholarship focuses on autobiography and biography, early American women writers, transatlantic studies, and U. S. multicultural literatures.  Right now I am working on a biography of Isabel Brown Crook and editing a collection of the writings of Hannah Mather Crocker. 

Office/Office Hours

• office: 253 Ross
• office hours:  Fall 2009.  Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, 1:00-2:00 and other times by appointment.
• office phone: (515) 294-3175
• email: cjpost@iastate.edu

Selected Publications

• “Performing Hybridity in Historical Melodrama of the Early Republic.” Chapter 3 in Passionate Politics:  The Cultural Work of American Melodrama from the Early Republic to the Present.  Eds. Ralph Poole and Ilka Saal. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008.  47-70.
• "Making the A-List: Reformation and Revolution in Crocker's Observations on the Real Rights of Women". Resources for American Literary Study. Volume 29. New York: AMS Press, 2005. 67-88.
• "Image and Idea in the Poetry of Robert Hayden."  Reprinted in Robert Hayden.  Ed. Harold Bloom.  Philadelphia:  Chelsea House, 2005.  5-14.
• "Promotion and Tenure-Track Record." Campus Progress: Supporting the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. Ed. B. Cambrdige. Washington, D.C.: American Association for Higher Education and The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 2004. 137-41.
• Signs of the Times in Cotton Mather's Paterna: A Study of Puritan Autobiography. New York: AMS Press, 2000.
• "Hannah Mather Crocker." Dictionary of Literary Biography: American Women Writers to 1820. Ed. Carla Mulford. Detroit: Bruccoli-Clark-Layman, 1999. 85-93.
• "The Truth, the Whole Truth, and Everything But the Truth in Margaret Mead's Autobiography." Selected Proceedings of the First International Conference on Women and Literature. Beijing: Peking University, 1995. 314-21.
• "Hannah Mather Crocker." The Oxford Companion to Women's Writing in the United States. Ed. Cathy N. Davidson and Linda Wagner-Martin. New York: Oxford UP, 1994. 222-23.
• "Making the Random Routine and the Routine Random: Ritual and Anti-Ritual in Cotton Mather's Paterna." Studies in Puritan American Spirituality, 4 (1993): 125-45.
• "Old World Order in the New: John Eliot and Praying Indians in Cotton Mather's Magnalia Christi Americana." The New England Quarterly, 46 (September 1993): 416-33.
• "Revolutionary Dialogics in American Mock-Epic poetry: Double-Voicing in M'Fingal, The Anarchiad", and The Hasty Pudding." Special issue on poetry in Studies in American Humor*. Fall(1988): 41-52.

Fellowships and Grants

• Faculty Professional Development Award (FPDA), 2004-2005.
• Shared Leadership for Instritutional Change (SLIC), Spr 2003-Fall 2004.
• Study in A Second Discpline Grant to work with Professor Shu-Min Huang in Anthropology, Fall 2000.
• Fulbright Lecturer in American Literature, Beijing Foreign Studies University, the People's Republic of China, Spring 1995 and Fall 1996.
• Fulbright Lecturer in American Literature, China Foreign Affairs University, the People's Repbulic of China, 1995-1996.
• Faculty Improvement Leave (FIL), Fall 1994.
• Fulbright Junior Lecturer/Research Scholar, University of Groningen, the Netherlands, Spring 1988.

Affiliations

• International American Studies Association
• Society of Early Americanists
• Transatlantic Studies Association

Degrees

• Ph.D., English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University, 1986.
• M.Phil., English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University, 1982.
• M.A., English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University, 1980.