Contributors
- Contributors
Sari Edelstein is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. She is the author of Between the Novel and the News: The Emergence of American Women’s Writing, forthcoming from the University of Virginia Press. Her essays have appeared in the Southern Literary Journal, Legacy, and Studies in American Fiction.
Dustin Kennedy is a Lecturer at The Pennsylvania State University, where he completed his Ph.D. in 2012. His project, “Revolting Fiction: The American Revolution in Nineteenth-Century Literature,” examines how writers who were invested in progressive social politics invoked the nation’s origin in order to gain political currency. His research on Lippard was supported by an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship at the Library Company of Philadelphia and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
Justine s. Murison is an associate professor of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her first book, The Politics of Anxiety in Nineteenth-Century American Literature, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2011. She is currently working on a book-length project on secularism, belief, and American fiction from the Revolution through the Civil War.
Jerome Tharaud is A.W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research investigates the influence of Protestant evangelical print culture on antebellum U.S. culture. His current book project, [End Page 663] “Evangelical Space,” argues that nineteenth-century print cultures produced forms of imagined space very different from the literal, secular geographies traditionally privileged by American Studies. Departing from the field’s early emphasis on the nation and the frontier, as well as from the global flows of the more recent transnational turn, “Evangelical Space” excavates a range of sacred, ethical, and cosmic spaces that have fundamentally shaped what it means to be modern. [End Page 664]
