Contributors
- Contributors
Deidre Dallas Hall is Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi, where she teaches American literature. She is currently at work on “Scientific Methods,” a book project that juxtaposes literary texts with nonliterary documents and with material culture in order to examine the interventions American fiction made in the professionalization of medicine between 1880 and 1940.
Amy parsons is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin, Platteville. She received her PhD in English with a Feminist Emphasis from the University of California, Irvine. Her primary areas of research and teaching are the role of transnational capital, maritime labor, and sexuality in the antebellum period.
Martha Schoolman teaches in the English Department at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. She is the author of American Abolitionist Geographies (forthcoming in 2013 from the University of Minnesota Press). [End Page 151]
Ashley C. Barnes earned her PhD from University of California–Berkeley in May 2012 with a dissertation that rereads the American love story from Uncle Tom’s Cabin to The Golden Bowl and uses that revised love story to reconsider the ethics and affects of reading. Her research also investigates Bible reading practices, portraiture, and the practices of decorating and collecting. She is currently Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Williams College.
R. J. Boutelle is a PhD candidate at Vanderbilt University, where he studies nineteenth-century American literature and Transamerican literature. He is currently working on his master’s thesis, which reveals and examines the influential circulation of Cuban poet Juan Francisco Manzano’s slave narrative in the U.S. antebellum literary marketplace.
Allison Curseen is a PhD candidate at Duke University. She studies nineteenth-century American and African American literature, and her dissertation explores literary representations of children’s physical and affective movements. She currently teaches at a variety of institutions, including Duke, Durham Technical Community College, and Orange County Correctional Center.
Marlowe Daly-Galeano recently completed a PhD in English at the University of Arizona, where she worked as Assistant Editor of the Arizona Quarterly. Her dissertation explores constructions of authorship in the writing of Louisa May Alcott. She looks forward to starting a position as Assistant Professor in the Humanities Division at Lewis-Clark State College in fall 2012. [End Page 152]
Luella Putnam D’amico is a PhD candidate at Oklahoma State University. Her dissertation, “Fallen Angels, or the ‘Other’ Republican Mothers: Adolescent Pregnancy in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction,” won an OSU Women’s Faculty Council Research Award. She currently serves as Editorial Assistant for Literature in the Early American Republic.
Lynne Feeley is a PhD candidate in English and Women’s Studies at Duke University. Her dissertation explores ecological discourses, literature, and race in the long eighteenth century.
James Finley a PhD candidate in English at the University of New Hampshire, is writing a dissertation on abolitionist texts that address slavery’s effects on land, nature, and bodies. He has an article forthcoming on Thoreau’s The Maine Woods and is the recipient of the Thoreau Society Short-Term Research Fellowship and the Barbara L. Packer Fellowship at the American Antiquarian Society.
Scott E. Moore is a PhD candidate in the Department of English and American Literature at Brandeis University, primarily studying late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American literature. His current research examines social mobility and conceptions of aristocracy in nineteenth-century U.S. literature and culture, and his work has appeared in ATQ.
Nels Olson is a PhD candidate in the Department of English at Michigan State University. He specializes in nineteenth-century American literature and is currently writing his dissertation on nineteenth-century narratives about revolutions written by Americans. [End Page 153]
Christian Reed is a PhD candidate at the University of California Los Angeles. His dissertation, “Love in the American Form: Sex and Subgenre in the Nineteenth-Century U.S. Novel,” examines four of the century’s crucial novelistic subgenres—each according to its peculiar process of genre-attachment and its thematization of this process in typical love-attachments. He has recently given conference papers on Melville, Howells, and others.
Kelly Ross recently earned her doctorate from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In...
