Notes on Contributors
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Elizabeth Fenton is Associate Professor of English at the University of Vermont and author of Religious Liberties: Anti-Catholicism and Liberal Democracy in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Literature and Culture (2011). She has also published essays on religion, politics, and literature in such journals as J19, ESQ, and Early American Literature.
Peter Jaros is Assistant Professor of English at Franklin and Marshall College. He is currently completing a book manuscript on character, legibility, and personhood in the early US republic. His work has appeared in Early American Literature and The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation; and an article on Robert Montgomery Bird’s Sheppard Lee and the law of persons is forthcoming in J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists.
Manina Jones, Professor of English at Western University, is coauthor of Detective Agency: Women Re-Writing the Hard-Boiled Tradition (1999), coeditor of Carol Shields and the Extra-Ordinary (2007), and author of That Art of Difference: Documentary-Collage and Canadian Writing (1993).
Richard Kopley, Distinguished Professor of English, Emeritus, Penn State DuBois, is author of Edgar Allan Poe and the Dupin Mysteries (2008), The Threads of “The Scarlet Letter” (2003), and a variety of articles on American Renaissance writers. He is also editor of Prospects for the Study of American Literature and Poe’s The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym (1999), as well as coeditor of the collection Poe Writing / Writing Poe (2012) and the annual Resources for American Literary Study. Kopley is former president of the Poe Studies Association and the Nathaniel Hawthorne Society, and he serves as an editor-in-chief for the Oxford Bibliographies Online.
Amber Lapiana is a doctoral candidate at Washington State University. Her work focuses on late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American women writers, cartography, and western American literature.
Dominic Mastroianni is Assistant Professor of English at Clemson University. He is the author of Politics and Skepticism in Antebellum American Literature (forthcoming), as well as articles on Emerson, Levinas, Melville, and Poe. [End Page 133]
Craig Messner is a PhD student in the Department of English at the University of California–Los Angeles. His research interests include the crossings of literary and computational culture in nineteenth-century America and the adaptation of early American works to new media.
Scott Peeples is Professor and Chair of the English Department at the College of Charleston. His work on Poe includes two books: The Afterlife of Edgar Allan Poe (2004) and Edgar Allan Poe Revisited (1998). A past president of the Poe Studies Association, Peeples serves as Consulting Editor for Poe Studies and is a member of the editorial board of the Edgar Allan Poe Review.
Aaron Matthew Percich, a doctoral candidate in English at West Virginia University, specializes in Irish diasporic, colonial, and cultural intersections within nineteenth- and twentieth-century British and American literature. His dissertation concerns Ireland’s Great Famine and its influence on modernist literary forms in Bram Stoker, Rudyard Kipling, James Joyce, and William Faulkner.
Kristen Renzi is Assistant Professor of English at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio. She specializes in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century transatlantic literature, gender studies, and representations of embodiment. Her critical work has appeared in, or is forthcoming from, ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance, Substance: A Review of Theory and Literary Criticism, and Modernism/modernity.
David M. Robinson is Oregon Professor of English and Director of the Center for the Humanities at Oregon State University. He is author of Natural Life: Thoreau’s Worldly Transcendentalism (2004) and Emerson and the Conduct of Life (1993), among other works on American literature and religion. He also authored the chapter “Emerson, Thoreau, Fuller and Transcendentalism” for American Literary Scholarship from 1988 to 2008 and is currently pursuing two projects: one on Margaret Fuller and another on Stanley Cavell.
Michael Von Cannon is a PhD candidate in English at Louisiana State University. His dissertation, “Nobody’s War: The Unknown Soldier of American Modernism,” examines how the figure of the Unknown Soldier influenced, both directly and recursively, an American modernist...
