Contributors
- Contributors
Mary Chapman is an Associate Professor of English at the University of British Columbia. She is the co-editor of Sentimental Men: Masculinity and the Politics of Affect (University of California Press, 1999), the author of numerous articles on American literature and culture, and the winner of the 2006 Yasuo Sakakibara Prize for American Studies. She is currently writing a monograph on American Suffrage Literature.
Lindsay DiCuirci is a doctoral student in early American literature at The Ohio State University. Her research interests include the history of reading and book production and the literatures of the colonial and early republican periods.
Kevin Hearle is the revision editor for the 2nd Viking Critical Library Edition of The Grapes of Wrath: Text and Criticism (Viking Penguin, 1997), the co-editor of Beyond Boundaries: Rereading John Steinbeck (Alabama, 2002), and has been a founding member of the editorial boards of The Steinbeck Review, Steinbeck Studies, and Steinbeck Newsletter. He received the Burkhardt Award from the Ball State University Foundation as the Outstanding Steinbeck Scholar of 2005. He has been an adjunct faculty member at many institutions, including the University of Iowa, Coe College, UC Santa Cruz, and San Jose State University. His edition of The Essential Austin is due out in October 2006 as part of the California Legacy Series from Santa Clara University and Heyday Books of Berkeley.
Paul Christian Jones is Assistant Professor of English at Ohio University, where he teaches courses primarily in nineteenth-century American literature. The author of Unwelcome Voices: Subversive Fiction in the Antebellum South, he has also published essays on antebellum American literature in Journal of American Studies, ATQ, Southern Quarterly, and Southern Literary Journal.
Catherine Keyser is a doctoral candidate in the Department of English at Harvard University. Her dissertation is on New York women magazine writers of the 1920s and 1930s and their satires of the female types found within the "smart" magazines. Her essay entitled "Jane Eyre, Bondwoman" appeared in In Search of Hannah Crafts: Critical Essays on the Bondwoman's Narrative (Basic Books 2004). [End Page 135]
Alisha R. Knight is Assistant Professor of English and American Studies at Washington College, where she teaches courses in American and African American literature and the History of the Book. She is currently working on a study of Post-Bellum, Pre-Harlem African American subscription publishing. She wishes to thank Ira Dworkin and the editors of American Periodicals for their comments on this article.
President elect of RSAP, Patricia Okker is Professor and Chair of the English department at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Author of Our Sister Editors: Sarah J. Hale and the Tradition of Nineteenth Century Women Editors (University of Georgia Press, 1995) and Social Stories: The Magazine Novel in Nineteenth-Century America (University of Virginia Press, 2003), she is currently editing a collection of essays on serial fiction published in minority periodicals.
Cynthia Patterson is an Assistant Professor at the University of South Florida—Lakeland campus. Her book manuscript, "Exclusively from Original Designs": The Philly Pictorials and the Graphic Arts, is currently undergoing peer-review. For academic year 2006–2007, Dr. Patterson is participating in the Faculty Technology Integration Institute learning community at USF-L. She specializes in teaching computer-mediated advanced composition courses for business, engineering, and social science majors.
Karen Meier Reeds, a member of the Princeton Research Forum and National Coalition of Independent Scholars, is the guest curator of the upcoming Linnaeus Tercentenary exhibition, Linnaeus and America, at the American Swedish Historical Museum. As a Lecturer in the History and Sociology of Science Department at the University of Pennsylvania, she used the Philadelphia's Ben Franklin tercentenary celebrations as the basis of a seminar on "Enlightenment Science and Public History." She is the author of three books on the history of science and medicine: Judith P. Swazey and Karen Reeds, Today's Medicine, Tomorrow's Science: Essays on Paths of Discovery in the Biomedical Sciences,<http://newman.baruch.cuny.edu/DIGITAL/2001/swazey_reeds_1978/default.htm>; Botany in Medieval and Renaissance Universities (Garland, 1991); and A State of Health: New Jersey's Medical Heritage (Rutgers University Press, 1991). Her study, "Leonardo da Vinci and Botanical Illustration: Nature Prints...
