Teresa Toulouse is a scholar of American literature from the colonial period through the Civil War. Before coming to CU in 2007, she taught at Tulane University in New Orleans. She is the author of two monographs: The Art of Prophesying: New England Sermons and the Shaping of Belief (1987) and The Captive’s Position: Female Narrative, Male Identify and Royal Authority in Colonial New England (2007). She also co-edited volume two of The Complete Sermons of Ralph Waldo Emerson (1992). Currently, she is editing a collections of essays on interstitial spaces in New Orleans architecture and culture, and writing a monograph on comparative conceptions of the “holy” person in the early Americas. Her areas of interest include not only the early periods in American writing and culture, but also literatures of American urbanism and environmental literatures.