Teresa Toulouse听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:听The Art of Prophesying: New England Sermons and the Shaping of Belief听(1987) and听The Captive鈥檚 Position: Female Narrative, Male Identify and Royal Authority in Colonial New England听(2007). She also co-edited volume two of听The Complete Sermons of Ralph Waldo Emerson听(1992). Currently, she is editing a听collections听of essays on interstitial spaces in New Orleans architecture and culture, and writing a monograph on comparative conceptions of the 鈥渉oly鈥� 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.