Contributors
- Contributors
Rachel Banner ...
is currently finishing her Ph.D. in English at the University of Pennsylvania. In August 2013, she will be joining the faculty of West Chester University as an Assistant Professor of English. She studies 19th-century American literature. Her primary research interests include African American and Native literatures, aesthetic theory, and antebellum U.S. legal history.
Michael A. Chaney...
is Associate Professor of English and African American Studies at Dartmouth College. He is the author of Fugitive Vision: Slave Image and Black Identity in Antebellum Narrative (Indiana, 2009) and the editor of Graphic Subjects: Critical Essays on Autobiography and Graphic Novels (Wisconsin, 2011). His essays on visuality and African American literature have appeared in, or are forthcoming from, American Literature, Modern Fiction Studies, African American Review, Callaloo, MELUS, and the collection Pictures and Progress: Early Photography and the Making of African American Identity (eds. Smith and Wallace, Duke, 2012).
James Finley ...
is a doctoral candidate in English at the University of New Hampshire. The article published in this issue comes from his dissertation, "'Violence Done to Nature': Free Soil and the Environment in Antebellum Antislavery Writing." He has published on Henry David Thoreau in ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment and is the incoming editor of the Thoreau Society Bulletin. [End Page 375]
Janet Neary ...
is an Assistant Professor of English at Hunter College, City University of New York. Her research examines 19th-century African American narrative and visual culture, with a particular emphasis on slave narratives. She came to Hunter in 2009 after completing her Ph.D. in English at the University of California, Irvine, with emphases in feminism and critical theory. She is currently at work on a manuscript entitled Fugitive Testimony: Race, Representation, and the Slave Narrative Form. Her essay "Behind the Scenes and Inside Out: Elizabeth Keckly's Revision of the Slave Narrative Form" is forthcoming in African American Review. [End Page 376]
