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Steffi Dippold
Associate Professor, English, College of Humanities and Social Sciences
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Steffi Dippold, associate professor, received her PhD from Stanford and taught at Kansas State University before coming to Montclair. Steffi's teaching and research interests include pre-1900 American literatures, alternative archives, Native American and Indigenous studies, book history, material and visual culture, and early modern global and local cultures of everyday life. Steffi loves working with students in local museums and repositories to explore how nontextual literacies give voice to ordinary and overlooked people.
Steffi has published on materials ranging from print ornaments, the cultural logic of actual and textual keys, to early Native American bookbinding and the first North American Indigenous grammar.
Selected Publications:
鈥淭he Gender of Binding,鈥 Julia Miller ed. Suave Mechanicals: Essays on the History of Bookbinding, vol. 9 (2025): 454-480.
With Lauren Coats, "Beyond Recovery," special issue, Early American Literature, 55.2(2020):297-498.
鈥淭hat Marooned Thing: Adoptive Narratives for a Haudenosaunee Purging Stick,鈥 Early American Literature, 55.2(2020):445-472.
With John Garcia 鈥淩ace and the Boundaries of the Book: Seven Early American Perspectives,鈥 Rare Book School, BiblioVideo Series, and presenter with Michael Galban 鈥淓arly Indigenous Bookmaking: The Indian Primer (1669).鈥
鈥淎 Prince Went Up a Tree and Climbed into Colonial Typography: or Reversing Lettered and Unlettered in the Wampanoag Bible,鈥 The New England Quarterly, 92.1(2019):6鈥45.
鈥淚f I had ye gift of tongue:鈥 The V&A鈥檚 Detector Lock and the Seventeenth Century Obsession with Keys,鈥 Common-Place.
鈥淭he Wampanoag Word: John Eliot鈥檚 Indian Grammar, the Vernacular Rebellion, and the Elegancies of Native Speech,鈥 Early American Literature 48.3(2013):543-575.
Specialization
Early American Literature, book history/material texts, archive studies, Native American Literature