Andrew Wildermuth, M.A.

Current Research Projects

• American Malleability: Aesthetics and Politics of Change in U.S. Literature and Print, 1820–1870 (PhD, submitted June 2025)

Education

M.A., North American Studies, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg (2021)
B.A., English, St. Mary’s College of Maryland (2017)

Employment

• Since 2022: Doctoral researcher in Graduiertenkolleg “The Sentimental in Literature, Culture, and Politics,” FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
• 2021–22: Doctoral researcher in Graduiertenkolleg “Modell Romantik,” Friedrich-Schiller University Jena

Grants and Awards

• Bavarian American Academy Summer Academy on “North American Narratives of Crisis and Repair,” Montréal, Québec (July 2025)
• BAA Post-Graduate Research Fellow at Harvard Univeristy, Cambridge, MA (Oct 2024–Jan 2025)
• Barbara L. Packer Fellow at American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, MA (Aug–Oct 2024)
• Thoreau Country Conservation Alliance Fellow, Concord, MA (July 2024)
• NEH Summer Institute, on “Transcendentalism and Social Reform: Activism and Community Engagement in the Age of Thoreau,” Concord, MA (June–July 2022)
• Final Semester Scholarship, FAU (2021)

Service to the Profession

• Since 2025: Co-editor, The TRIAL: A Journal of Poetry and Politics
• Since 2022: Associate Editor, Conversations: A Publication of the Margaret Fuller Society
• Since 2022: Doctoral Representative, Sustainability Commission, FAU
• 2023: Doctoral Representative, Library Commission, FAU
• 2022–23: Speaker of the Doctoral Students of the Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Theology, FAU
• 2021–2024: Graduate Student Liaison, Margaret Fuller Society

Publications

Journal Articles

• “American Malleability: 1820s Print Revolutions and the Aesthetics and Politics of Change in Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass.” Amerikastudien / American Studies 70, no. 2 (2025): 135–155. https://amst.winter-verlag.de/article/AMST/2025/2/5
• “‘Water, Water Everywhere’: Flows, Fate, and Transcendental Settlerism in Margaret Fuller’s Summer on the Lakes, in 1843.” Iperstoria 19  (2022): 49–65.  https://iperstoria.it/article/view/1150
• “Measured Life: Making Live, the ‘Modern System of Science,’ and the Animated Bodies of Frankenstein.” ZAA: Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 69, no. 4 (2021): 331–48.
• “‘A Thing Apart’: Sonnet Poetics and Radical Politics in Claude McKay’s Harlem Shadows.” aspeers 14 (2021): 15–31.

Book Contributions

• “Foraging, Forging, Forgoing—or, Thoreau’s Settler Disaster in the Age of Walker and Apess,” 2025 Annual Publication of the Bavarian American Academy on “Environmental Citizenship,” Univeristätsverlag Winter (Forthcoming, 2026) 

Reviews

• Review of Born in Blood: Violence and the Making of America, by Scott Gac, 2024, Cambridge University Press, in Amerikastudien / American Studies (Forthcoming, 2025)

Miscellaneous

• “Poetry in the Age of Algorithmicist Reproduction: Or, Poetry and Anti-Fascism Now,” The TRIAL: A Journal of Poetry and Politics (Forthcoming, 2025)
• Op-Ed on “College for All Act,” The Capital, Annapolis, MD(April 2021)

Conference Papers

• “‘The Great Panacea for All the Disorders in the Universe, Is Love’”: The Penitentiary and Women’s Health in Fuller’s Tribune and Child’s Letters from New-York,” Conference on Critical Health: Feminist Perspectives on Health and Well-Being in the Nineteenth-Century United States, Sorbonne University, Paris, France, October 2025
• “1956: Some Trees, Howl, and the Rupture of Pleasure Politics in Poetry of Late Capital,” BAA Summer Academy on “North American Narratives of Crisis and Repair,” Montréal, Québec, July 2025
• “1827: Freedom’s Journal, The Cherokee Phoenix, and the Birth of Radical-Critical Print,” Annual Meeting of the German Association of American Studies, University of Siegen, Germany, June 2025
• “Malleability in Ameican Periodical Cultures, 1820–1850,” American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, MA, September 2024

• “A Tale Twice Told: Law, Sovereignty, and Changing Boston in Apess’s Indian Nullification (1835) and Hawthorne’s ‘The Custom-House’ (1850),” Nineteenth-Century Global Cities and Urban Worlds: Symposium of the Society for Global Nineteenth-Century Studies, Aix-Marseille University, France, June 2024
• “‘My Heart, a Wall / of Living, Loving Clay’: Feeling, Flesh, and Revolutionary Agency in Frances Harper’s Moses: A Story of the Nile,” Final Conference of Voices/Agencies: America and the Atlantic, 1600–1865, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany, March 2024
• “‘Pamphlets of a Very Seditious & Inflammatory Character’: Inflammation and Injury  in Walker’s Appeal,” Symposium of the British Association for Nineteenth-Century Americanists, University of Bristol, England, December 2023
• “We, You, and Me: Pronouns, Protest, and Baez–Dylan in D.C.,” Sentimental Ballads in Popular Music, International Symposium, University of Siegen, Germany, September 2023
• “Foraging, Forging, Forgoing: Thoreau as Disaster,” Annual Conference of the Bavarian American Academy, Munich, Germany, July 2023
• “Reading the Body Politic: Phrenology and Ideology in Moby Dick and Woman in the Nineteenth Century,” Annual Conference of the British Association of American Studies, Keele University, England, April 2023
• “Reading, Liberatory Violence, and Malleability in Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass,” Infrastructures of Racism and the Contours of Black Vitality and Resistance: An International Conference, University of Torino, Italy, March 2023

Poems (Select)

• “We’re Teaching Comp Only,” The Yale Review
• “The Republic” and “Focus,” Lana Turner: A Journal of Poetry & Opinion
• “Teach Me to Breathe,” Oxford Poetry 98
• “London, Something Like Work,” Oxford Poetry 96
• “Containers,” Ninth Letter
• “Amerikanistik,” Columbia Journal

Teaching

• Rethinking the American Renaissance (PS)
• Speaking Skills
• Integrated Academic Language Skills
• Writing Skills