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241 About the Contributors Robert Arbour is a doctoral candidate in the English department at Indiana University, where he studies nineteenth-century American literature . His dissertation is titled “A Sentimental War: American Poetry and the Civil War” and tracks changes in sentimental poetry as a nationalizing mode during and after the American Civil War. He has published essays in the Explicator, Partial Answers, and Texas Studies in Literature and Language. Thomas Augst is associate professor and director of graduate study in the Department of English at New York University. He is the author of The Clerk’s Tale: Young Men and Moral Life in Nineteenth-Century America (2003), coeditor of Institutions of Reading: The Social Life of Libraries in the United States (2007), and coeditor of Cultural Agencies and American Libraries (2001). Susan Branson is associate professor of history at Syracuse University. She is the author of “These Fiery Frenchified Damese”: Women, Politics, and Culture in Early National Philadelphia (2001) and Dangerous to Know: Women, Class and Crime in the Early Republic (2008). Virginia Garnett is a doctoral candidate at the University of Delaware. Her dissertation, “The Podium in Print: How the Printed Lecture Shaped America, 1865–1914,” focuses on the relationship between orality and print through examination of the American lecture circuit. More specifically she argues that the lecture, through its ability to be transcribed and circulated in newsprint, challenged popular notions of literature and authorship at the turn of the twentieth century. 242 About the Contributors Peter Gibian is associate professor of English at McGill University. His publications include Oliver Wendell Holmes and the Culture of Conversation (2001), winner of the Best Book Prize awarded by the Northeast American Studies Association for 2001–2, and an edited collection, Mass Culture and Everyday Life (1997), as well as essays on Whitman, Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, Edward Everett Hale, John Singer Sargent, Justice Holmes, Wharton and James, Michael Snow and shopping-mall spectacle, the experience of flânerie in nineteenth-century shopping arcades, and cosmopolitanism in nineteenth-century American literature. He is completing a new book exploring the workings of a midcentury “culture of conversation” across the spectrum of talk modes and spheres as it shaped the writings of a wide range of authors and is also completing a major project on the emergence of a “cosmopolitan tradition” in American writing. Sara Lampert received a PhD in history from the University of Michigan in 2012. She has taught at Presbyterian College in South Carolina, and is currently an assistant professor of American history at the University of South Dakota. Angela G. Ray is associate professor of communication studies at Northwestern University. Her 2005 book The Lyceum and Public Culture in the Nineteenth-Century United States treats the development of the lyceum lecture system, with a special emphasis on the ways that social reformers adapted their messages for this commercial medium. The book received awards from the National Communication Association, the Rhetoric Society of America, and the American Forensic Association. Ray’s scholarship has also appeared in journals such as Argumentation and Advocacy, the Quarterly Journal of Speech, Rhetoric and Public Affairs, and Women’s Studies in Communication. Evan Roberts is an assistant professor of history at the University of Minnesota and previously taught at Victoria University of Wellington. He is a social and economic historian of both New Zealand and the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. His current major research projects examine married women’s work in the United States and health and living standards in New Zealand. His ongoing interest in connections between New Zealand and the United States can be seen in publications on New Zealand and American department stores and recent conference papers on New Zealand migration to America. [3.90.255.22] Project MUSE (2024-03-29 07:33 GMT) 243 About the Contributors Paul Stob is assistant professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Vanderbilt University. His research focuses on rhetoric and intellectual culture during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era in America. He is especially interested in the way American intellectuals have used popular forums—lecture halls, periodicals, and books—to construct democratic communities of thought. His work has appeared in such journals as Rhetoric and Public Affairs, the Quarterly Journal of Speech, Philosophy & Rhetoric , and Argumentation and Advocacy. His first book, William James and the Art of Popular Statement, has recently been published by Michigan State University Press. Tom F. Wright is a lecturer in American literature...