Dr. Krumrey teaches American literature, both survey
courses and advanced courses such as Women in Literature and New Styles
of Storytelling.
In 1997, Dr. Krumrey was Fulbright Professor of American
Studies at Dortmund University in Dortmund, Germany. Her areas of
specialization include Early American Literature, Multicultural
Literature, Contemporary Immigrant Literature, and Native American
Literature. She is currently at work on a book entitled The Eloquent
Savage in Early American Literature.
Dr. Krumrey received the B.A. cum laude in English from
the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the Ph.D. in English
from the University of Connecticut.
Publications
Wretched Refuge: Immigrants and Itinerants in the Postmodern,
co-edited with Jessica Datema, Cambridge Scholars Press 2010, which
includes her essay, “Translocality in the New Post-American Immigrant
Literature.”
“Down the Rabbit Hole of Textuality: Using Aporia to Teach
Literature,” ADE Bulletin 45 (Spring 2008), 21-25.
"Replacing the Nation: Contemporary Literature by and about
Immigrants," Anglophonia 19 (2006), 243-252.
"Subverting the Tonto Stereotype in Popular Fiction, Or, Why Indians
say 'Ugh!,'" in Simulacrum America, ed. Elizabeth Kraus,
Columbia, SC: Camden House, 2000, 161-169.
"On the Frontier of Natural Language with the Eloquent Indians:
Hobomok and Hope Leslie," Images of the
Frontier, Proceedings of the 1997 Society for the Interdisciplinary
Study of Social Imagery Conference, March 1997, 261-266.
"'Your Ear Shall Drink No Lie': Articulating the American Voice in
The Last of the Mohicans," Language and Literature 22
(1997), 45-62.