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  • Contributors

Suzanne Ashworth . . .
teaches early American literature, lgbtq literature, queer theory, and gender and sexuality studies at Otterbein University. Her published work centers on nineteenth-century writers and historical conceptions of the body, gender, desire, sex, and sexuality.

Rachel Azima . . .
is Assistant Professor of English at Lawrence Technological University. She is presently working on a book project that examines roots and transplantation in contemporary literature, investigating how the literary, botanical, and national intersect around questions of belonging. Her work has also appeared in the Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies.

Pablo A. Ramirez . . .
received his PhD in American Cultures from the University of Michigan. He is presently an associate professor in the School of English and Theatre Studies at the University of Guelph (Ontario, Canada). His current project is a book tentatively titled "Consent of the Conquered: Californio Romances and Contractual Freedom in Nineteenth-Century America."

David Watson . . .
is Associate Professor of English, with a specialization in American literature, at Uppsala University. He has published on literary modernism, American literature, and transnational studies, and is currently working on two projects: a book-length study of transnational connectivity in American literature titled "The Hauntings of America: Time, Sovereignty, and American Literature" and a research project titled "Locating the Ends of U.S. Imperialism." [End Page 456]

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