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  • Contributors

RACHEL A. BLUMENTHAL . . .
is assistant professor of English at Indiana University Kokomo, where she teaches courses on captivity narratives, women’s literature, critical theory, revolutionary literature, creative writing, and medical humanities. Her work has appeared in Callaloo and Arab Studies Quarterly. Her current book project, “Misdiagnosis: Psychology and the Female Patient in Nineteenth-Century American Literature,” uncovers a vital connection in the nineteenth century between literary form and the emerging science of psychology. Examining works by Margaret Fuller, Elizabeth Packard, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Emily Dickinson, and Elizabeth Stoddard, she demonstrates how literary texts frame and revise five popular nineteenth-century diagnoses: derangement, hysteria, nervousness, neurasthenia, and anorexia. These narratives, she contends, overturn the epistemological structures of western medical practice and re-define the boundary between health and illness by reconceiving the notion of (mis)diagnosis. Her work has been supported by fellowships by IUK, the Huntington Library, the Newberry Library, and the Chicago Humanities Festival.

ANDREW MENARD . . .
is an independent writer. As an early member of the group Art & Language, he helped to found several artist-run magazines, including the The Fox, published articles in Artforum, Studio International, Flash Art, Art Criticism, and participated in numerous exhibitions around the world. Later, he edited a literary magazine for a multi-cultural group started by Amiri Baraka. In recent years he has focused almost exclusively on nineteenth- and twentieth-century American landscape, and his articles have appeared in The New England Quarterly, Journal of [End Page 667] American Studies, Western American Literature, and Oxford Art Journal. In 2012, University of Nebraska Press published Sight Unseen: How Frémont’s First Expedition Changed the American Landscape. He is currently writing a book on Thoreau.

LORI ROBISON . . .
is an Associate Professor of English at the University of North Dakota, where she teaches American Literature. Her recent scholarly work examines how the literature of Reconstruction, with its reliance on the cultural discourses surrounding sentiment, produced national reconciliation while problematically cementing racial identities. Her publications include essays on Frances Harper’s Iola Leroy, on Charles Chesnutt’s “The Dumb Witness,” and on the popular novel Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood.

RASMUS R. SIMONSEN . . .
has recently accepted a full-time faculty position with the Copenhagen School of Design and Technology, where he will be teaching courses in Media Studies and Communication Theory. In addition to teaching, he will continue his research on American Literature, Queer Theory, and Food Studies. Simonsen is currently editing a collection of essays with Jodey Castricano titled Food for Thought: New Critical Perspectives on Veganism and Meat Consumption. Furthermore, he has just completed two book chapters on the work of Alison Bechdel and Cormac McCarthy, respectively. He has previously published articles in Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies, Children’s Literature, Journal for Critical Animal Studies, and American Studies in Scandinavia. [End Page 668]

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