Contributors
- Contributors
Charlene Avallone works as an independent scholar, having served on the faculties of the universities of Notre Dame and Hawai‘i, and she sits on the advisory board of the Margaret Fuller Society and on the editorial board of Leviathan. Her publications treat early national writers—Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Margaret Fuller, Elizabeth Peabody, and Herman Melville, among others—as well as the gender and racial limitations of the American Renaissance critical tradition.
Matthew R. Davis Assistant Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point, is currently working on a book-length project titled “Brotherhood and Blood in Civil War-Era America.” His work has previously appeared in Science as Culture, Mississippi Quarterly, and Contemporary Justice Review.
Lucy Frank is an independent scholar. She earned her doctoral degree at Warwick University, with a dissertation titled “Sarah Piatt and the Politics of Mourning,” and is the editor of Representations of Death in Nineteenth-Century US Writing and Culture (Ashgate Press, 2007). [End Page 193]
