Kristina Bross

Kristina Bross has been dedicated to honors education for more than a decade. Before joining the Honors Tutorial College at OU, she was the founding Associate Dean for Research and Creative Endeavors at the John Martinson Honors College at Purdue.
An award-winning instructor, she has taught a wide range of courses to both undergraduate and graduate students, including early America literature, Science Fiction and Fantasy, and first-year introductory and learning community courses, but by far her favorite courses introduce students to archival studies, including both local and university history. She has published two collections of essays with her students at Purdue and is working on a history of honors at Ohio University with students in her OU research lab.
Her scholarship focuses on 17th-century American and Atlantic World literature. She is the author of Dry Bones and Indian Sermons (Cornell, 2004); Future History (Oxford, 2017) and co-editor of Early Native Literacies in New England (with Hilary Wyss, Univ of Massachusetts Press, 2008) and A History of American Puritan Literature (with Abram Van Engen, Cambridge, 2020).