Arnold Krupat

Arnold Krupat, Ph.D. (born 1941) is an American author and Professor of Literature at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York. His work has been published in Nineteenth-Century Fiction, The Quest, and Sarah Lawrence Journal. He is a recipient of six fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, and has also held a Fulbright Fellowship, anWoodrow Wilson Fellowship, and a Guggenheim Fellowship.

Krupat was born in 1941 in the Bronx, New York and grew up in the Jacob Riis Housing Projects on the lower east side of Manhattan. He went to public grade school and then to Stuyvesant High School, from which he graduated in 1958.

He attended New York University's Washington Square College of Arts and Science on scholarship, earning his Bachelor's degree summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa in 1962. From 1962 to 1963, he spent a year at the Universite de Strasbourg on a Fulbright Fellowship. After returning to New York, he entered graduate school at Columbia University on a Woodrow Wilson Foundation Fellowship. He received his Ph.D from Columbia with honors in 1967.

Family

In 1962, Krupat married Kitty Weiss; the couple divorced in 1966.

In 1968, he married Cynthia Muser. While the couple divorced in 1993, together, they had two children. Their daughter, Tanya, is a social worker with the Osborne Association in New York. Their son, Jeremy, is a Professor at the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia.

In 2007, Krupat married Andrea Ferster, a lawyer in Washington, D.C. They were divorced in 2012. He lives in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York.

Academic work

From 1965 to 1968, Krupat taught in the English Department at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. He started teaching at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York in 1968. He retired in June 2012.

Writing

While teaching at Sarah Lawrence, Krupat developed an interest in critical theory and Native American literature. His first book, For Those Who Come After: a Study of Native American Autobiography, was published in 1985. A second edition, with a foreword by Paul John Eakin, appeared in 1987.

In 1989, he published a novel, Woodsmen, or Thoreau & the Indians, and in 2012 What-to-do? a novel. He has also authored, edited, or co-edited 12 more books. Scheduled for release in 2012, his latest academic work is entitled That the People Might Live: a Theory of Native American Elegy.

He is the author of Ethnocriticism: Ethnography, History, Literature; The Voice in the Margin: Native American Literature and the Canon; and Red Matters. In 2007, he wrote All That Remains: Native Studies. He is the editor of a number of anthologies, including Native American Autobiography: An Anthology and New Voices in Native American Literary Criticism.

In 2001, he edited Here First: Autobiographical Essays by Native American Writers, with Brian Swann. The work was honored with the Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers Award for best book of nonfiction prose.

Krupat has contributed chapters to edited books, and his essays have appeared in the major professional journals. He has been the editor for Native American literature for the Norton Anthology of American Literature from its 5th to its current 8th edition. He has presented talks at colleges and universities throughout the United States as well as in Brazil, Cyprus, England, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Norway, Sweden, and Wales.

Krupat is a recipient of six fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities. In 2007, he was the recipient of the Sarah Lawrence Excellence in Teaching Award.

• 1962: Fulbright Fellowship
• 1963: Woodrow Wilson Foundation Fellowship
• 2005: Guggenheim Fellowship

• "Arnold Krupat – Global Studies – Sarah Lawrence College". Pages.slc.edu. Archived from the original on July 27, 2011. Retrieved June 16, 2011. 
• "Arnold Krupat – John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation". Gf.org. Retrieved June 16, 2011. 
• "Sarah Lawrence Magazine: The Power of Giving – Published, Performed, Presented". Slc.edu. Retrieved June 16, 2011. 

• Krupat, Arnold. For Those Who Come After: A Study of Native American Autobiography, University of California Press, 1989. ISBN 978-0-520-06606-9
• Krupat, Arnold. The Voice in the Margin: Native American Literature and the Canon, University of California Press, 1989. ISBN 978-0-520-06669-4
• Krupat, Arnold. Ethnocriticism: Ethnography, History, Literature, University of California Press, 1992. ISBN 978-0-520-07666-2
• Krupat, Arnold. Woodsmen, or Thoreau and the Indians, University of Oklahoma Press, 1994. ISBN 978-0-8061-2671-5
• Krupat, Arnold. The Turn to the Native: Studies in Criticism and Culture, Bison Books, 1998. ISBN 0-8032-7786-5
• Krupat, Arnold. Red Matters: Native American Studies (Rethinking the Americas), University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002. ISBN 978-0-8122-1803-9
• Baym, Nina; Franklin, Wayne; Gura, Philip F.; Krupat, Arnold; and Levine, Robert S. (editors). Norton Anthology of American Literature, New York: W.W. Norton and Co., 2007. ISBN 978-0-393-92993-5
• Krupat, Arnold. All That Remains: Varieties of Indigenous Expression , University of Nebraska Press, 2009. ISBN 978-0-8032-1890-1
• Krupat, Arnold. That the People Might Live: Loss and Renewal in Native American Elegy, Cornell University Press, 2012.

Krupat, Arnold, ed. "Companion to James Welch's The Heartsong of Charging Elk." University of Nebraska Press, 2015.