Faculty/Staff Detail

Daniel Radus

Dan Radus is an Associate Professor of English at SUNY Cortland, where he also serves as coordinator for the Master of Arts (M.A.) in English Graduate Program and the Native American Studies Program.

Radus specializes in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Indigenous literatures in North America, with particular interests in Indigenous historical writing, book history, print culture, and materialism. His current project, "Indigenizing the Book," considers a series of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century books that have been inscribed, embellished, or otherwise altered by Indigenous readers, writers, and artists. 

Radus is a Senior Fellow in the Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography at Rare Book School, University of Virginia, and an elected member of the American Antiquarian Society. His scholarship has been supported by fellowships at the American Antiquarian Society and the Newberry Library, and his work has been published in American Literature, Studies in American Indian Literatures, Early American Literature, Criticism, and other venues.

At Cortland, Radus teaches courses in the Indigenous literatures of North America as well as in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American literatures. He is the recipient of the SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching (2025), the Steven J. Barnes Outstanding Faculty Member Award (2021), and the Tenure-Track Excellence in Teaching Award (2020).

A recent CV is available at this link.