Contributor Biographies
- Contributor Biographies
Jodi A. Byrd is a citizen of the Chickasaw Nation of Oklahoma and associate professor of American Indian studies and English at the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign.
Kristen Case is an assistant professor of English at the University of Maine–Farmington. She is the author of American Pragmatism and Poetic Practice: Crosscurrents from Emerson to Susan Howe (Camden House, 2011) and the editor of The Concord Saunterer: A Journal of Thoreau Studies.
Tim Cassedy is assistant professor of English at Southern Methodist University. He is writing a book titled Language Makes the Difference: A History of Linguistic Identity, 1775– 1825.
Brian Connolly is an assistant professor of history at the University of South Florida. He is the author of Domestic Intimacies: Incest and the Liberal Subject in Nineteenth- Century America (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014). He is also a founding editor of History of the Present: A Journal of Critical History.
Michael A. Elliott is professor of English and American studies at Emory University. He is the author of The Culture Concept: Writing and Difference in the Age of Realism (University of Minnesota Press, 2002) and Custerology: The Enduring Legacy of the Indian Wars and George Armstrong Custer (University of Chicago Press, 2007). With Priscilla Wald, he recently coedited The American Novel: 1870– 1940, volume 6 of The Oxford History of the Novel in English.
Jonathan Elmer is professor of English at Indiana University, where he also serves as director of the College Arts and Humanities Institute. His most recent book is On Lingering and Being Last: Race and Sovereignty in the New World (Fordham University Press, 2008), and he has published numerous essays in journals such as American Literature, diacritics, American Literary History, boundary 2, and Cultural Critique. [End Page 195]
Paul Erickson is Director of Academic Programs at the American Antiquarian Society, where he oversees AAS’s fellowship programs, summer seminars, and conferences. His academic interests are in the history of the book, antebellum print culture, and marginal print economies.
Stephanie Foote is associate professor of English and gender and women’s studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of Regional Fictions: Culture and Identity in Nineteenth- Century American Literature (University of Wisconsin Press, 2001) and a forthcoming book on class climbing in the late nineteenth century. She is also the editor of two reprints of Ann Aldrich’s classic 1950s lesbian pulps for the Feminist Press, the coeditor of Histories of the Dustheap (MIT Press, 2012), and the cofounder and coeditor of Resilience: A Journal of the Environmental Humanities.
Alyosha Goldstein is associate professor of American studies at the University of New Mexico. He is the author of Poverty in Common: The Politics of Community Action during the American Century (Duke University Press, 2012); the coeditor of “Settler Colonialism,” a special issue of South Atlantic Quarterly (Fall 2008); and editor of Formations of United States Colonialism: The Historical Present and the Horizon of Dispossession (forthcoming from Duke University Press).
Frederick E. Hoxie is Swanlund Professor of history, law, and American Indian Studies in the department of history at the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign. He is the former Vice President for Research and Education at the Newberry Library and was a founding trustee of the National Museum of the American Indian. He is the author or editor of more than a dozen books, most recently, This Indian Country: American Indian Activists and the Place They Made (Penguin, 2012), which won the Caughey Prize from the Western History Association. He is the editor of the Oxford Handbook of American Indian History, to be published in 2014.
Carrie Hyde is assistant professor of English at the University of California– Los Angeles. She is currently completing a book, Literary Originalism: The Extra- Legal Development of U.S. Citizenship, 1776- 1868, which offers a literary genealogy of citizenship in the period prior to the passage of the Fourteenth Amendment.
Paul Christian Jones is professor of English at Ohio University. He is the author of Unwelcome Voices: Subversive Fiction [End Page 196] in the Antebellum South (University of Tennessee Press, 2005) and Against the Gallows: Antebellum American Writers and the Movement...
