Contributors
- Contributors
d. berton emerson ...
is Visiting Assistant Professor of Early and Nineteenth-Century American Literature at Cal Poly Pomona. His current project, Local Rules: The Alternative Democratic Misfits of Nineteenth-Century U.S. Print Culture, examines imaginative literature with primary investments in local matters rather than in national community. An essay on southwestern humor was published in American Literature in 2013, and another essay on George Lippard’s The Quaker City will appear in Nineteenth-Century Literature in 2015.
amanda konkle ...
is a doctoral candidate in Literature and Film at the University of Kentucky. Her dissertation, Marilyn Monroe’s Star Canon: Postwar American Culture and the Semiotics of Stardom, constitutes the first extended scholarly examination of Monroe’s “star canon,” demonstrates the significance of Monroe’s star persona within her body of films, and uses the meaning her presence brings to the films to interpret them in the context of postwar American culture. Amanda has also published articles in Quarterly Review of Film and Video and Kansas English.
matthew rebhorn ...
is associate professor of American literature at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, VA, where he teaches courses in nineteenth-century American literature, theater history, and the history of science. His first book, Pioneer Performances: Staging the Frontier, was published by Oxford University Press in 2012. His work has appeared in Callaloo, Journal of American Drama and Theatre, Modern Drama, Comparative Drama, Nineteenth-Century Theatre and Film, and Studies in the Novel. Currently, he is completing a [End Page 360] book entitled Minding the Body: Proto-Cognitive Literature in Antebellum America. Drawing on works by Edwin Forrest, Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Montgomery Bird, George Lippard, and Walt Whitman, it explores the medical and pseudo-medical debates about the mind-body relationship in the nineteenth century and the way these debates framed—and were framed by—the production of antebellum American literature.
valerie philbrick-debrava ...
holds an American Studies Ph.D. from the College of William and Mary. She is the author of articles about American women writers and nineteenth-century periodical fiction, as well as a novel. Her current project is a book about how individualism, in relation to philosophical idealism and Transcendentalism, served early twentieth-century scholars of American literature as both a compensatory outlet for institutional frustrations and a means by which to redefine their field of study. [End Page 361]
