Contributors
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Michael Anesko teaches English and American literature at the Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of “Friction with the Market”: Henry James and the Profession of Authorship (Oxford University Press, 1986) and Letters, Fictions, Lives: Henry James and William Dean Howells (Oxford University Press, 1997). He has just finished a new book, Monsieur de l’Aubépine: The French Face(s) of Nathaniel Hawthorne, a critical study and translation of francophone responses to one of the key figures of the American Renaissance.
Jennifer J. Connor is an associate professor in both the Faculty of Medicine and the Department of History at Memorial University of Newfoundland. She is editor of the Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada, and in 1995 she edited a special issue of the Canadian Bulletin of Medical History, “Book Culture and Medicine.” Her articles have appeared in History of the Book in Canada, Journal of Medical Ethics: Medical Humanities, and Libraries and Culture, among other publications. Her book, Guardians of Medical Knowledge (Scarecrow Press, 2000), examined the early development of the physician-run Medical Library Association.
Mike Esbester is a postdoctoral researcher on the AHRC-funded project “Designing information for everyday life, 1815–1914,” based in the Department of Typography and Graphic Communication, University of Reading, UK. The project explores how items intended for use in daily life were designed, read, and used. He completed his PhD on worker safety education on Britain’s railways between 1913 and 1939, at the University of York, UK, in 2006.
Teresa A. Goddu is an associate professor of English and director of the American Studies Program at Vanderbilt University. She is the author of Gothic America: Narrative, History, and Nation (Columbia University Press, 1997). She is currently completing a study of antislavery print culture, from which her article is taken. [End Page 355]
Ben Kafka is an assistant professor in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication and the Department of History at New York University. He is completing a first book, The Demon of Writing: Paperwork and the Making of Modern France (Zone Books, forthcoming), and continuing work on a second project, a history of graphology. In 2009–10 he will be a member of the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study.
Jeffrey Todd Knight is a PhD candidate in English at Northwestern University. He is currently completing a dissertation on compiling practices in early print culture.
Kathleen (Kate) McDowell is an assistant professor at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research interests include the history of children’s librarianship, women’s contributions to librarianship, the pedagogical uses of storytelling, and teaching traditional storytelling in the online classroom. Her article marks the beginning of a project on the history of children as readers in the United States, which has been funded by the University of Illinois Campus Research Board and awarded the Arnold O. Beckman Research Award.
Sharon Murphy is a graduate of University College Dublin and of the University of Dublin, Trinity College. She is the author of Maria Edgeworth and Romance (Four Courts, 2004) as well as a number of published essays. She occasionally contributes to radio programs on the arts. Her work on the East India Company’s lending libraries for soldiers was facilitated by her appointment to a two-year Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship at the University of Dublin in 2005. She currently lectures at St. Patrick’s College, Drumcondra.
Claire Parfait is a professor of American Studies and Book History at the University of Paris 13, France. She is the author of The Publishing History of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, 1852–2002 (Ashgate, 2007). She co-edited (with Marie-Françoise Cachin) Cahiers Charles V no. 32, Histoire(s) de livres: Le livre et l’édition dans le monde anglophone (Institut d’Etudes anglophones Université Paris 7–Denis Diderot, 2002), and (with Marie-Françoise Cachin, Diana Cooper-Richet, and Jean-Yves Mollier) Au bonheur du feuilleton: naissance et mutations d’un genre (France, Etats-Unis, Grande-Bretagne, XVIIIe–XXe siècles) (Créaphis, 2007). She is currently [End Page 356] working on a book-length...
