Contributors
- Contributors
Sidney Bland is Professor of History at James Madison University. His publications include Preserving Charleston's Past, Shaping Its Future: the Life and Times of Susan Pringle Frost (Greenwood Press, 1994) and numerous articles and reviews in scholarly journals on United States women's history. A designated Madison Scholar, he gave the opening address for the Centennial of James Madison University in August 2007 and authored the foreword to the University Centennial publication, The Madison Century.
Timothy Helwig is an assistant professor of English at Western Illinois University, where he teaches early and nineteenth-century American literature. He has presented numerous papers on Herman Melville and George Lippard, and has published an article on city-mysteries in American Studies. He is currently working on a book on working-class identity and racial sympathy in antebellum popular print culture.
Cynthia Patterson is a recent recipient of a Jay and Deborah Last Fellowship in Visual Culture from the American Antiquarian Society, as well as a residential fellowship from Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library. She is revising her book manuscript entitled Art for the Middle Classes. Cynthia is a member of the Research Society for American Periodicals (RSAP). Her presentation for a roundtable sponsored by RSAP on periodical studies and access at the 2006 American Literature Association conference was included in "Periodical Studies and Access: A Research Society for American Periodicals Forum," American Periodicals 17:1 (2007) 117–18. Her review essay "The Digital Archives," was published in American Periodicals for Spring 2004 (14.1): 143–150. Cynthia teaches computer-mediated courses in cultural studies and professional and technical writing at Florida's first, and only, publicly-funded polytechnic university, formerly known as the University of South Florida —Lakeland, now USF Polytechnic.
Richard Samuel West, an independent scholar, is the author of Satireon Stone, The Political Cartoons of Joseph Keppler (University of Illinois, 1988) and The San Francisco Wasp: An Illustrated History (Periodyssey Press, 2004). He was the editor and founder of Target, The Political Cartoon Quarterly (1980-1986) and the political cartoon editor of Inks (1993–1996), published by the Cartoon Research Library at Ohio State University. [End Page 244]
