Contributors
- Contributors
Jonathan Daigle is an Assistant Professor of English at Hillyer College at the University of Hartford. He is currently completing a book manuscript on race historicism and its implications in emergent postbellum social sciences and literary genres. One article from this project received African American Review’s 2012 Darwin T. Turner Award. Another will soon appear in American Literary Realism.
Vanessa Steinroetter is Assistant Professor of English at Washburn University of Topeka, KS. Her research focuses on American literature and print culture of the antebellum and Civil War periods, and her published scholarship has appeared in journals including the New England Quarterly and American Periodicals. She is currently working on a book-length manuscript that analyzes representations of readers and scenes of reading in the literature of the Civil War.
Christa Holm Vogelius is a lecturer at the University of Michigan, where she recently defended her dissertation, “The Culture of Ekphrasis in America’s Age of Print, 1830–1880.” She works on nineteenth-century American literature, poetics, visual studies, and print culture. Her next project, which brings together figures including Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Jacob Riis, centers on the Danish-American press and multilingual American literatures at the end of the nineteenth century. Her critical work, reviews and translations have appeared in The Emily Dickinson Journal, The Bridge: Journal of the Danish-American Heritage Society, and Amerikastudien/American Studies. [End Page 231]
Kristin Allukian is a Ph.D. Candidate in nineteenth-century American women’s literature at the University of Florida. Her dissertation, “Working to Become: Women, Work and Literary Legacy in American Women’s Postbellum Fiction” was awarded the Madelyn Lockhart Dissertation Fellowship by UF’s Association for Academic Women. She currently serves on the Advisory Board of the Society for the Study of American Women Writers.
R.J. Boutelle is a doctoral candidate and graduate instructor in the Department of English at Vanderbilt University, where he studies nineteenth century literature of the Americas and teaches a course on masculinity and bromance. In addition to serving as both a correspondent and a senior adviser to ESQ’s Year in Conferences project, he has received fellowships from the Fulbright U.S. Student Program and the Cuban Heritage Collection at the University of Miami. His research looks at comparative antislavery movements and their cultures of print throughout the hemisphere, but particularly in the United States and Cuba.
Kathleen Brian is a doctoral candidate in the American Studies Department at George Washington University in Washington, DC. Her research interests include histories of American violence; American medicine, science, and technology; and historical intersections of race, class, and disability. Her dissertation argues that nineteenth-century debates over suicide catalyzed the emergence of the American eugenics movement by restructuring popular understandings of sympathy. Her work [End Page 232] has been published in the History of Psychiatry and the Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies, and she is currently at work on a cultural history of suicide.
Brenna Casey is a Ph.D. student in English and Women’s Studies at Duke University. Her focus is on 19th and early 20th century Transamerican literature. She holds an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Notre Dame.
Daniel Couch is a graduate student in the English Department at UCLA. His primary fields of study include early and nineteenth-century American literature, with an emphasis on transatlantic studies. He is currently at work on two projects—one on Hannah Webster Foster’s The Coquette (1797) and another on Leonora Sansay’s Secret History, or The Horrors of St. Domingo (1808).
Luella D’Amico is a PhD Candidate in English at Oklahoma State University where she works as editorial assistant for Literature in the Early American Republic. Her dissertation explores constructions of adolescent pregnancy in nineteenth-century American literature. She looks forward to starting a position as Assistant Professor of English at Whitworth University in fall 2013.
April Davidauskis is a PhD Candidate in English and Gender Studies at the University of Southern California. Her dissertation “Roguish Femininity: The Fantasy of Exceptional Women in the Nineteenth-Century United States” explores the relationship between gender representation and imperial projects. [End Page 233]
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