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  • Contributors

Jeffrey Insko . . .
is Associate Professor of English at Oakland University. His essays on nineteenth-century U.S. literature have appeared in a number of journals, including Pedagogy, American Literary History, Early American Literature, and American Literature. He is currently completing a manuscript titled "The Ever-Present Now: Antebellum American Literary Historiography."

Holly Jackson . . .
visiting Assistant Professor of English at Skidmore College, has published work in PMLA and the New England Quarterly. This essay is drawn from a larger study of nineteenth-century critiques of the domestic family and its uses as a national metaphor and biopolitical mechanism.

Niles Tomlinson . . .
is currently an adjunct professor at Georgetown University and George Washington University in Washington, DC. In 2008, he received his PhD from George Washington University, where his focus was on gothic American literature and its intersection with animal theory and natural history. His article "Creeping in the 'Mere'" is derived from his dissertation, "Animal Crossings: Contagion and Immunologic in Gothic American Literature," and grew out of his abiding fascination with the animal/human border.

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