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POSITIONS
2024–27: ESPRIT Scholar, Department of American Studies, University of Graz, Austria
2021–Present: Associate Editor, Amerikastudien / American Studies (academic journal)
2021–23: Assistant Professor, Department of American Studies, Uni. Graz
2019–21: Mellon/ACLS Public Fellow, Library of America (New York, NY, USA)
2018–19: Digital and Experiential Learning Specialist, Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching, Stony Brook University, New York, USA
RECENT FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS
2024–27: Esprit Grant, FWF/Austrian Science Fund
2025: Obama Fellowship, Obama Institute for Transnational American Studies, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany
2022–23: Samuel H. Kress “Teaching with Primary Resources” Fellowship, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
2022: Mobility Grant, Uni Graz
2021: RSAP Article Prize, Research Society for American Periodicals
2019–21: Mellon/ACLS Public Fellow, Library of America
2020: Early Career Research Grant, Research Society for American Periodicals
ACADEMIC WRITING
April 2027 [Forthcoming]: Reading Between the Lines: Meaning and Mediality in Freedom’s Journal (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2027).
2027 [Forthcoming]: “The Smithsonian Collections in the European Classroom,” in Handbook of Critical Digital Humanities in American Studies, ed. Stefan Brandt, Frank Mehring, Tatiani Rapatzikou (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2027).
2026 [Forthcoming]: “An Ecocritical Approach to Poe’s ‘Murders in the Rue Morgue,’” in Superpower by Nature: The Environment and American Studies, ed. Frank Mehring (London: Routledge, 2026). ISBN: 9781041016878.
2026: “Subversive Editing: Rebellious Reprints in Freedom’s Journal,” in Black Editorship in the Early Atlantic World, ed. Nele Sawallisch and Johanna Seibert (London: Routledge, 2026), 108–123. [Reprint of 2021 Atlantic Studies article]. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003606796
2024: “Online Archives and American Studies Pedagogy Abroad: A Case Study,” Anglia 142, no. 4 (2024): 645–662. https://doi.org/10.1515/ang-2024-0059
2023: “Archives, (Inter)Mediality, and the Graphic Novel: Ghost River as an Indigenous Revision of Records,” The New Americanist 2, no. 1 (2023): 75–107. doi.org/10.3366/tna.2023.0006
2023: “Indigeneity, Archives, and American Literature,” Course Portfolio, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. https://www.aaa.si.edu/sites/default/files/Documents/2023-teaching-with-primary-sources-zukowski-syllabus.pdf
2021: “Subversive Editing: Rebellious Reprints in Freedom’s Journal,” Atlantic Studies 18, no. 4 (2021): 544–559. doi.org/10.1080/14788810.2020.1776978. [RSAP Article Award]
2020: “Language Ideology in the Paxton Pamphlet War,” Early American Studies 18, no. 1 (2020): 32–60. https://doi.org/10.1353/eam.2020.0003
2020: “Walt Whitman, Trinity Church, and Antebellum Reprint Culture,” Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 37, no. 4 (2020): 185–224. doi.org/10.13008/0737-0679.2373
2020: “‘Government in Petticoats’: Gender Poetics in New Jersey’s Newspaper Literature, 1789–1807,” New Jersey Studies 6, no. 1 (2020): 148–184. doi.org/10.14713/njs.v6i1.193. [NJS Academic Alliance Award]
EDUCATION
2026: Habilitation [Anticipated], American Studies, University of Graz, Austria
2018: Ph.D., American Literature, Stony Brook University (SBU), New York, USA
PAST, CURRENT, AND FUTURE COURSES
University of Graz
- Introduction to Literary Theory: Poetry
- Introduction to Literary Theory: Fiction & Drama
- Introduction to Intermediality Theory
- Native Americans and American Literature
- Indigeneity, Archives, and the American Literary Canon
- Nineteenth-Century US Literature & Activism
- Intermediality in Antebellum American Culture
- Frederick Douglass and the Nineteenth Century
- Early African American Print & Literature
- Forever Wars/Forever at War: Four Centuries of American War Narratives
Stony Brook University
- Early American Literature: Community and the Individual in Early America
- Introduction to Fiction: Global Literatures of New York
- Introduction to Fiction: The American Dream
- World Literature, Ancient to Modern: Citizenship, Leadership, and Literature
- Introduction to Writing
- World Mythology
LANGUAGE SKILLS
- English (First Language)
- German: ÖIF B1-certified, 2025; coursework through B2.
- Latin (advanced graduate level)
- Spanish (5 years secondary-level study)
Scott T. Zukowski 