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Contributors
Peter Conolly-Smith teaches American history at CUNY–Queens College in New York. His book, Translating America: An Ethnic Press Visualizes Popular American Culture, 1895–1918 (Smithsonian Press, 2004) offers a detailed study of New York's turn-of-the-century German language press. He has published numerous articles on war, immigration, ethnicity, film, and theater.
Cian McMahon is a PhD candidate in Irish and United States Social and Cultural History at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He holds a BA (Hons) from the University of Manitoba in Canada and a MA from University College Dublin, Ireland. His PhD dissertation is entitled "Did the Irish 'Become White'? Race, Nationality, and Migration in Ireland, Australia, and the United States, 1842–1877." It is a transnational examination of how racial identity was experienced and expressed in weekly newspapers by Irish people at home and abroad in the mid-nineteenth century.
Vanessa Steinroetter is a doctoral student at the University of Nebraska– Lincoln working in the field of 19th-century American literature and culture, with a special interest in interdisciplinary and transatlantic subjects. She is currently researching American literature written during the Civil War, including literature that appeared in periodicals, for her dissertation project on readership and depictions of reading in Civil War literature.
Xiao-Huang Yin is Director of Global Studies in the College of Arts and Letters and Professor of Asian Studies in the Department of Linguistics and Germanic, Slavic, Asian and African Languages at Michigan State University. He received his PhD from Harvard University and is the the author of Chinese American Literature since the 1850s (University of Illinois Press, 2000) and coeditor with Peter H. Koehn of The Expanding Roles of Chinese Americans in U.S.-China Relations: Transnational Networks and Trans-Pacific Interactions (M.E. Sharpe. 2002). His articles have appeared in the American Quarterly, American Studies, Journal of Chinese Overseas, Journal of American-East Asian Relations, Atlantic Monthly, and many other periodicals. [End Page 116]
