Area of Interest
Courtney Weikle-Mills specializes in early American literature and children’s literature. Additional research and teaching interests include citizenship, Atlantic and early Caribbean studies, readership and literacy, the novel, and the history of the book.
Representative Publications
Imaginary Citizens: Child Readers and the Limits of American Independence, 1640-1868. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013.
“Free the Children: Jupiter Hammon and the Origin of African American Children’s Literature.” Impossible Publics: African American Children’s Literature Before 1900. Eds. Kate Capshaw Smith and Anna Mae Duane. Forthcoming from University of Minnesota Press.
Research Interests
She is currently working on a new book tentatively titled, "Little Hands and Mouths: Children’s Literature, Commerce, and Relationality in the Early Atlantic World,” which traces the circulation of British and American children's literature in the early Caribbean, children's literature's relationship to transatlantic trade, and the early development of Caribbean children's culture.