Contributors
- Contributors
Mark Kamrath is Associate Professor of early American literature in the Department of English at the University of Central Florida. He is co-editor of Revising Charles Brockden Brown: Culture, Politics, and Sexuality in the Early Republic and Periodical Literature in Eighteenth-Century America, both of which will be published with the University of Tennessee Press (2004). He is currently completing a book manuscript on the historical writings of Charles Brockden Brown, and serves as an editorial board member for the Charles Brockden Brown Electronic Archive and Scholarly Edition.
Charles Johanningsmeier is the author of Fiction and the American Literary Marketplace: The Role of Newspaper syndicates, 1860-1900 (1997). He has also published many articles on how the periodical contexts of publication affected such authors as Sarah Orne Jewett, Mary Wilkins Freeman, Charles Chesnutt, Henry James, and Frank Norris, as well as the reception of these works among readers. Johanningsmeier teaches American literature in the English Department of the University of Nebraska at Omaha.
Sohui Lee is a postdoctoral teaching fellow at Stanford University. Her recent publications include "'[O]ur American kinsman': British Nationalism and Book Reviews of American Literature in the 1840s" in Romanticism on the Net. Her research focuses on how Jacksonian nationalism and America's transatlantic relationship with Britain inform creative and political literature in the Democratic Review.
Cynthia Patterson, a Doctoral Candidate in Cultural Studies at George Mason University, is working on a dissertation entitled "'A Taste of Refined Culture': Imag(in)ing the Middle Class in the Philly Pictorials of the 1840s and 50s."
Jennifer Phegley is an assistant professor of Victorian literature at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Her book, Educating the Proper Woman Reader: Victorian Family Literary Magazines and the Cultural Health of the Nation, will be published by The Ohio State University Press in the Fall of 2004. She is also co-editor, with Janet Badia, of Reading Women: Literary Figures and Cultural Icons from the Victorian Age to the Present, a collection of essays forthcoming from the University of Toronto Press.
