Contributors
- Contributors
Karin J. Bohleke is currently the director of the Fashion Archives and Museum at Shippensburg University, where she supervises a collection of approximately 15,000 items dating from the late eighteenth century through the twentieth. She holds a Ph.D. in French language and literature from Yale University, and also serves as an Assistant Professor of French at Shippensburg. She is a frequent lecturer on nineteenth-century topics relating to clothing, social and material culture, Egyptomania, women's travel accounts in Egypt and historic dance.
David Brody is an Assistant Professor of Design Studies at Parsons The New School for Design. His book Visualizing American Empire: Orientalism and Imperialism in the Philippines was recently published by the University of Chicago Press. His co-edited (along with Hazel Clark) book Design Studies: A Reader was published in 2009 by Berg Publishers. His new book project is titled Do Not Disturb: Design, Hotels, and Labor.
Jean Lee Cole is Associate Professor in the Department of English at Loyola University Maryland. She is the author of The Literary Voices of Winnifred Eaton: Redefining Ethnicity and Authenticity (Rutgers 2002) and the co-editor of several volumes: The Collected Plays of Zora Neale Hurston, with Charles Mitchell (Rutgers 2008); and A Japanese Nightingale and Madame Butterfly: Two Orientalist Texts with Maureen Honey (Rutgers 2002).
Isadora A. Helfgott is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Wyoming where she teaches 20th-century American cultural and social history and women's history. Her current book project concerns the politics of art appreciation in the United States during the Great Depression.
Baird Jarman is Associate Professor of Art History at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota. He is currently completing a book on the influence of the theater world upon political caricature in American magazines during the Reconstruction Era.
Rhonda Reymond is an assistant Professor of Art History at West Virginia University. Her primary research interests are Nineteenth-Century American art, with an emphasis in transatlantic and cross-cultural artistic exchanges, historicism in the nineteenth century and early twentieth centuries and the construction of identity in urban spaces and mapping. She earned her MA and Ph.D. in Art History at the University of Georgia. [End Page 295]
Janice Simon is Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor of Art History in the Lamar Dodd School of Art, University of Georgia. Her dissertation "The Crayon (1855-1861): The Voice of Nature in Criticism, Poetry and the Fine Arts," written twenty years ago, still stands as the most important and comprehensive study of America's premier art journal of the antebellum period. Her article on the Crayon and American periodical covers appeared in the inaugural issue of American Periodicals in Fall 1991. She has published on another major nineteenth-century art journal, The Aldine, as well as the role of periodicals in art criticism. A specialist in American landscape painting, especially of the Hudson River School, she is in the process of writing a book on the image of the forest interior in American art. [End Page 296]
