Colin Wells

Title

Associate Dean of Humanities

Department

English

Institution

St. Olaf College

wellsc@stolaf.edu

Education

PhD, English, Rutgers University; MA, English, Rutgers University; BA, English, Boston College

Research Interests

Early American Poetry Eighteenth Century Literature Early American Literature

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Biography

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Contact Information

St. Olaf College, 1520 St. Olaf Ave., Northfield, MN 55057

Research

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Early American Poetry Eighteenth Century Literature Early American Literature

List of Publications (6)

In 2017

Colin Wells, Poetry Wars: Verse and Politics in the American Revolution and Early Republic (UPenn, 2017)
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In 2008

"Revolutionary Verse." The Oxford Handbook of Early American Literature. Ed. Kevin J. Hayes. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008, 505-524;
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In 2004

"Aristocracy, Aaron Burr, and the Poetry of Conspiracy." Early American Literature 39:3 (2004), 553-576;
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In 2002

"Connecticut Wit and Augustan Theology: John Trumbull, Timothy Dwight and the New Divinity." Religion and Literature 34:3 (2002), 93-119;
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The Devil and Doctor Dwight: Satire and Theology in the Early American Republic (UNC, 2002);
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In 1998

"Timothy Dwight's American Dunciad: The Triumph of Infidelity and the Universalist Controversy." Early American Literature 33:2 (1998), 173-91.
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Colleagues

Susan Huehn

St. Olaf College

Aileen Razey

St. Olaf College

Sharon Momanyi

St. Olaf College

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