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  • Contributors

Stacy Alaimo is professor of English and distinguished teaching professor at the University of Texas at Arlington. She has published Undomesticated Ground: Recasting Nature as Feminist Space (Cornell University Press, 2000), Bodily Natures: Science, Environment, and the Material Self (Indiana University Press, 2010), and the edited collection Material Feminisms (with Susan J. Hekman; Indiana University Press, 2008).

Todd Carmody teaches in the History and Literature program at Harvard University. He has previously held postdoctoral fellowships at the University of California, Berkeley, and at Harvard's W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Studies. He is writing a book on the disability history of racial uplift entitled The Racial Handicap.

Nan Z. Da is a PhD candidate in the English department at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor finishing a dissertation on the sociology of literature in Sino-American exchanges from 1800 to 1910. She will be assistant professor of English at the University of Notre Dame in August 2014.

Wai Chee Dimock experiments with close readings across different widths of space and across a range of time-scales. Her book, Through Other Continents: American Literature across Deep Time (Princeton University Press, 2006), received honorable mention for both the James Russell Lowell Prize of the Modern Language Association and the Harry Levin Prize of the American Comparative Literature Association. A collaborative volume, Shades of the Planet: American Literature as World Literature (Princeton University Press, 2007), further elaborates on these arguments.

Elizabeth Fenton is associate professor of English at the University of Vermont. She is the author of Religious Liberties: Anti-Catholicism and Liberal Democracy in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Literature and Culture (Oxford University Press, 2011). [End Page 461]

Jennifer L. Fleissner is associate professor of English at Indiana University-Bloomington. She is the author of Women, Compulsion, Modernity: The Moment of American Naturalism (University of Chicago Press, 2004).

Gordon Fraser is a PhD candidate in English at the University of Connecticut, with essays published or forthcoming in the Henry James Review, Victorian Literature and Culture, and the WAC Journal.

Christopher Hager is assistant professor of English at Trinity College. He is the author of Word by Word: Emancipation and the Act of Writing (Harvard University Press, 2013).

Stephanie LeMenager is associate professor of English at the University of Oregon. She received her PhD from Harvard University in 1999. Her central interests include nineteenth- and twentieth-century US literature and cultures, literatures of the North American West, environmental theories and representations, and rhetorics of slavery and freedom. She is the author of Manifest and Other Destinies: Territorial Fictions of the Nineteenth Century United States (University of Nebraska Press), winner of the 2005 Thomas J. Lyon Award for Best Book in Western American Literary Studies. She is currently at work on her second book project, This Is Not a Tree: Cultures of US Environmentalism in the Twilight of Oil.

Christopher Looby is professor of English at University of California-Los Angeles. He is the author of Voicing America: Language, Literary Form, and the Origins of the United States (University of Chicago Press, 1996) and editor of The Complete Civil War Journal and Selected Letters of Thomas Wentworth Higginson (University of Chicago Press, 2000).

Stacey Margolis is associate professor of English at the University of Utah. She is the author of The Public Life of Privacy in Nineteenth-Century American Literature (Duke University Press, 2005).

Cody Marrs is assistant professor of English at the University of Georgia. He specializes in nineteenth-century US literatures, with particular interests in poetry, temporality, and aesthetic theory. A recipient of fellowships from the Newberry Library, the University of Georgia Research Foundation, and the Townsend Center for the Humanities at UC Berkeley, he is currently writing a book titled Transbellum America: Literature, Time, and the Long Civil War. [End Page 462]

Joshua Matthews is assistant professor of English at Dordt College (Sioux Center, IA). He received his PhD from the University of Iowa in 2012. There he was the managing editor of the Walt Whitman Quarterly Review and an editorial assistant for the Walt Whitman Archive (whitmanarchive.org).

Paul Outka is associate professor of English at the University of Kansas. He is the...

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