Dr. Kelly Wisecup, professor in the Department of English and an affiliate of the Center for Native American and Indigenous Research, has received the 2021-2022 Newberry Consortium in American Indian and Indigenous Studies (NCAIS) and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship.
Professor Wisecup received these prestigious honors for her project “Indigenous Anthologizing in the Great Lakes.” This project looks at the nineteenth-century Ojibwe poet and poetry collector Charlotte Johnston. Between 1826 and the 1850s, Johnston filled two blank, bound books with popular English-language poems, hymns in Anishinaabemowin and French, notes from friends, and illustrations. Johnston’s albums open up avenues for seeing the processes and practices through which ordinary Native people and those known as editors, authors, and diplomats made texts out of alphabetic materials in multiple languages, recirculated printed texts, and images.
The Newberry awarded 15 academics, including Professor Wisecup, from across the United States long-term fellowships for 2021-2022. Professor Wisecup joins a number of prestigious academics from across the country through this fellowship.