Cathy Rex, Ph.D.

Cathy Rex's work has appeared in Studies in American Indian Literatures, Women's Studies, American Quarterly, College and Research Libraries, and Intercultural Education. Her essays have also appeared in the collections Women's Narratives of the Early Americas and the Formation of Empire, edited by Mary McAleer Balkun and Susan Imbarrato (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016) and Approaches to Teaching LGBT Literature in Higher Education, edited by Will Banks and John Pruitt (Peter Lang, 2019). Her book Anglo-American Women Writers and Representations of Indianness, 1629-1824 was released by Ashgate Publications in 2015, and her first edited collection, Public Memory, Race, and Heritage Tourism of Early America (co-edited with Dr. Shevaun Watson of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) was released in 2022 (Routledge).  Dr. Rex was also the recipient of UWEC's College of Arts and Sciences Excellence in Teaching Award in 2023.