Dr. Robert Gunn
Robert Gunn is Associate Professor of English, a member of the Core Faculty of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Program (NAIS), and an Affiliate of the Center for Inter-American and Border Studies. Dr. Gunn joined the UTEP faculty in 2005 after completing his Ph.D. in English and American Literature at New York University. He is the author of Ethnology and Empire: Languages, Literature, and the Making of the North American Borderlands (NYU Press), winner of the 2016 Early American Literature First Book Prize. Dr. Gunn teaches courses on North American literatures and culture prior to 1900, and contemporary Native American literature. His research centers on early American literatures of Indigenous encounter, and is particularly interested in representations of language, race, and embodiment; the literary and scientific networks of early American imperialism; and forms of timekeeping and place-making in early North America. Dr. Gunn’s work has been supported by research fellowships and awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Philosophical Society, the American Antiquarian Society, the John Carter Brown Library, the Office of the Provost, and the UTEP University Research Institute.
UTEP Faculty Profile: http://academics.utep.edu/Default.aspx?tabid=70104&ID=rlgunn
Contact Information
Email: rlgunn@utep.edu
Phone: 915-747-7483
Hudspeth Hall 218
Personal Information
PhD, New York University
Associate Professor