Contributors
- Contributors
Katherine Adams . . . is Associate Professor of English and Women's and Gender Studies at University of South Carolina. She is the author of Owning Up: Property, Privacy, and Belonging in U.S. Women's Life Writing (2009) and editor of Women Writing Race (a special issue of Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature). Her book-in-progress examines black racial formation within the context of the cotton economy from the Civil War to the end of the nineteenth century.
Noelle A. Baker . . . is an independent scholar and editorial consultant for the Princeton edition of Henry Thoreau's writings. Her publications and research focus on transcendentalism, women's writing, and manuscript culture. Current work includes a scholarly, digital edition of Mary Moody Emerson's Almanacks, a project funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, with coeditor Sandra Harbert Petrulionis and in collaboration with the Brown University Women Writers Project. She is also at work editing the volume "Stanton in Her Own Time: A Biographical Chronicle of Her Life Drawn from Recollections, Interviews, and Memoirs by Family, Friends, and Associates," which will be published by the University of Iowa Press.
Dorri Beam . . . is the author of Style, Gender, and Fantasy in Nineteenth-Century American Women's Writing (2010), a literary archeology reconstructing the politics and aesthetics of "highly wrought" style in American romantic writing from the mid- to late nineteenth century. She has published articles treating sexuality and aesthetics in the work of authors from Margaret Fuller to Pauline Hopkins, [End Page 196] including, most recently, "Henry James, Constance Woolson, and the Figure in the Carpet," in The Aesthetic Dimensions of American Literature, edited by Christopher Looby and Cindy Weinstein. She teaches English at the University of California, Berkeley.
Phyllis Cole . . . . has enjoyed discoveries and dialogues bearing on the history of women and transcendentalism since the 1980s. Professor of English, Women's Studies, and American Studies at Penn State Brandywine, she is the author of Mary Moody Emerson and the Origins of Transcendentalism: A Family History (1998) as well as numerous essays on Margaret Fuller and others in the movement. Her current project, as a 2011-12 Fellow at the University of Connecticut Humanities Institute, is a study with the working title The Afterlife of Margaret Fuller.
Kathleen Lawrence . . . is Senior Lecturer in the English Department at Brandeis University. The author of numerous articles on Henry James, Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and their circle, she is completing a biography of Caroline Sturgis and is an editor of the forthcoming Cambridge edition of James.
Laura Dassow Walls . . . is the incoming William P. and Hazel B. White Chair of English at the University of Notre Dame. During her years at the University of South Carolina, she taught courses in American literature, including transcendentalism, and literature and science. Her books include The Passage to Cosmos: Alexander von Humboldt and the Shaping of America (2009), winner of MLA's James Russell Lowell prize; Emerson's Life in Science: The Culture of Truth (2003); and Seeing New Worlds: Henry David Thoreau and Nineteenth-Century Natural Science (1995). Currently she holds a Guggenheim fellowship and is at work on a new biography of Thoreau. [End Page 197]
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Matt Boehm . . . is a PhD candidate at the University of South Carolina, where he studies nineteenth-century American literature. His dissertation, provisionally titled "The Invention of Walking: Pedestrian Mobility, Performance, and Literature in Antebellum America," examines the rise of walking cultures in the nineteenth century, specifically the ways in which such cultures—which were based on such actual pedestrian practices as hiking, promenading, pacing, and marching—shaped and were shaped by an emerging current of literary nationalism. Boehm currently teaches composition and American literature at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Matthew Duques . . . is a PhD student in English at Vanderbilt University, where he studies early American literature and culture. In the 2011-12 academic year, he will be the American Studies Fellow at the Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities. He is currently writing a dissertation on the relationship between northern education reformers and early US literature.
Nicolette Hylan . . . is currently working toward her Master's degree in English at Penn...
