Contributors
- Contributors
ANDREW CONNOLLY recently completed his Ph.D. in English at Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario. His dissertation examines Pentecostal de-conversion narratives in literature and popular culture; a piece on James Baldwin’s Go Tell It on the Mountain recently appeared in CEA Critic. His current research examines the production and marketing of spirituality self-help books. He can be reached at andrew.mark.connolly@gmail.com.
RYAN CORDELL is Assistant Professor of English and Core Founding Faculty Member in the NULab for Texts, Maps, and Networks at Northeastern University (http://nulab.neu.edu). Cordell collaborates with colleagues in English, History, and Computer Science on the NEH-, Mellon-, and ACLS-funded Viral Texts project (http://viraltexts.org), which uses robust data-mining tools to discover reprinted content across large-scale archives of nineteenth-century newspapers and magazines. Cordell is currently a Mellon Fellow of Critical Bibliography at the Rare Book School in Charlottesville, Virginia and was awarded an ACLS Digital Innovation Fellowship (2015–2016). He can be reached at r.cordell@neu.edu.
JEFFREY DROUIN is an Assistant Professor of English at The University of Tulsa, specializing in modernism, periodical studies, and digital humanities. His first book, James Joyce, Science, and Modernist Print Culture: “The Einstein of English Fiction” (Routledge, 2014), examines the intersection of modernism and advanced physics in periodicals and the inter-war popular science market. He has published several articles in these areas and is currently working on a digital humanities project titled the Ecclesiastical Proust Archive (http://proustarchive.org). He can be reached at jeff-drouin@utulsa.edu.
BENJAMIN FAGAN is an Assistant Professor of English at Auburn University, where he teaches courses in early African American literature and print culture. He is also a member of the Black Press Research Collective, a group of scholars committed to making the archives and scholarship related to black periodicals more accessible. His first book, The Black Newspaper and the Chosen Nation (University of Georgia Press, 2016), explores the ways that antebellum black newspapers took up and shaped ideas of black chosenness. He can be reached at fagan@auburn.edu. [End Page 121]
AMANDA GAILEY is Associate Professor of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where she teaches courses on nineteenth-century American literature, digital humanities, and text studies. She is the President of the Research Society for American Periodicals. She can be reached at gailey@unl.edu.
KIM GALLON is an Assistant Professor of History at Purdue University. She is also the founder and director of the Black Press Research Collective (http://blackpressresearchcollective.org) and an ongoing visiting scholar at the Center for Africana Studies at the Johns Hopkins University. She can be reached at kgallon@purdue.edu.
ELIZABETH HOPWOOD is a Ph.D. candidate in English at Northeastern University and is studying foodways within nineteenth-century transatlantic literature. She is currently a project manager on the Early Caribbean Digital Archive, an open-access digital repository and commons space of pre-twentieth-century Caribbean texts, as well as the Managing Editor of Digital Humanities Quarterly. She can be reached at: hopwood.el@husky.neu.edu.
JILLMARIE MURPHY is an Assistant Professor of English at Union College, where she teaches courses in American literature through the nineteenth century. She has published two books, Monstrous Kinships: Realism and Attachment Theory in the Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Novel (University of Delaware Press, 2011) and Hawthorne in His Own Time: A Biographical Chronicle of His Life (University of Iowa Press, 2007). Murphy is currently working on a new book, Attachment, Place and Otherness in Nineteenth-Century American Literature: New Materialist Representations, 1797–1901 (Routledge, forthcoming 2017). She can be reached at murphyj@union.edu.
An Assistant Professor of Journalism at the University of Texas-Arlington, ERIKA PRIBANIC-SMITH’s research focuses on political communication in nineteenth-century newspapers and magazines. Her publications include “Sarah Josepha Hale, Editor/Advocate,” a chapter in the edited volume Pathways to Public Relations History: Global Perspectives on Practice and Profession (Routledge, 2014). She can be reached at epsmith@uta.edu
The founding president of the Research Society for American Periodicals, ROBERT J. SCHOLNICK is Professor of English and American Studies at the College of...
