Notes on Contributors

William Boelhower He is Associate Professor and Chair of American Literature at the University of Padua, Italy. He is currently Vice President of the European Association MESEA and a senior editor of the new Routledge journal Atlantic Studies. His books include Through a Glass Darkly, Ethnic Semiosis in American Literature (Oxford), Immigrant Autobiography in the United States (Essedue, Italy), and Autobiographical Transactions in Modernist America (Editore Bianco, Italy). He has edited the volume The Future of American Modernism (VU University Press, Amsterdam), and coedited Adjusting Sites, New Essays in Italian American Studies (Filibrary Press, Stony Brook) and Multiculturalism and the American Self (Winter Press, Heidelberg).

Martin Brückner He is Assistant Professor of English and American Literature at the University of Delaware. He has published on cartography, nationalism, and early American literary culture in various essay collections and journals such as American Quarterly and English Literary History. He is currently completing a book on geographic discourse, literacy, and identity in early America.

Jeffory A. ClymerHe is Assistant Professor of English at Saint Louis University, and the author of America's Culture of Terrorism: Violence, Capitalism, and the Written Word (2003). He is currently working on a new book about the cultural, legal, and literary paradoxes of property in nineteenth-century America.

Gavin Jones He teaches American literature and American studies at Stanford University and is the author of Strange Talk: The Politics of Dialect Literature in Gilded Age America (California, 1999).

Stephanie LeMenager Assistant Professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara, she is currently completing a book titled Manifest and Other Destinies: Territorial Fictions of the Nineteenth-Century United States.

David Leverenz Professor of English at the University of Florida, his most recent book is Paternalism Incorporated: Fables of American Fatherhood, 1865-1940 (2003).

James Livingston He teaches history at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. His most recent book is Pragmatism, Feminism, and Democracy: Rethinking the Politics of American History (2001). He has written on Dreiser, Disney, Poe, and Shakespeare, among others. Currently he is writing The Origins of Our Time: Sources of the American Century.

Laura Rigal She teaches in the Departments of English and American Studies at the University of Iowa. She is the author of The American Manufactory: Art, Labor, and the World of Things in the Early Republic (1998) and is presently at work on Rivers of Light: The Science of Motion and the Enlightenment Sources of American Power, 1750-1900.

David R. Shumway He is Professor of English, and Literary and Cultural Studies, and Director of the Center for Cultural Analysis, Carnegie Mellon University. He is the author of Creating American Civilization: A Genealogy of American Literature as an Academic Discipline and Modern Love: Romance, Intimacy, and the Marriage Crisis.

Nikhil Pal Singh He teaches history at the University of Washington, Seattle, and is the author of the forthcoming book, Black is a Country: Race and Democracy Beyond Civil Rights.

Brook Thomas He teaches US literature and culture at the University of California, Irvine and is author of Cross-examinations of Law and Literature, The New Historicism and Other Old-Fashioned Topics, and American Literary Realism and the Failed Promise of Contract. He has edited volumes on law and literature, literature and the nation, and Plessy v. Ferguson.

Cecelia Tichi She is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of English at Vanderbilt University. Her essay is adapted from Exposés and Excess: Muckraking in America, 1900-2000 (2003).

Alan Trachtenberg Neil Gray Professor Emeritus of English and American Studies at Yale University, he is completing a study of Indians, immigrants, and national identity in the early twentieth century.