Contributor Biographies
- Contributor Biographies
Branka Arsić is professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University. She is the author of Bird Relics: Grief and Vitalism in Thoreau (Harvard University Press, forthcoming 2015); On Leaving: A Reading in Emerson (Harvard University Press, 2010); and Passive Constitutions, or 7½ Times Bartleby (Stanford University Press, 2007).
Michelle Burnham is professor of English at Santa Clara University, where she teaches early American literature, Native American literature, and popular culture. She is the author of Folded Selves: Colonial New England Writing in the World System (University Press of New England, 2007) and Captivity and Sentiment: Cultural Exchange in American Literature, 1682–1861 (University Press of New England, 1997), and is co-editor of a revised edition of The Female American (Broadview, 2014). She is currently completing a book on transoceanic American studies, titled “The Calculus of Risk: Writing in the Revolutionary Atlantic-Pacific.”
Dan Clinton is a Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, specializing in nineteenth-century American fiction and poetry. His research interests include visual culture, aesthetics, formalism, photography, Herman Melville, and the transatlantic culture of romanticism. He is currently at work on a book based on his dissertation, titled “Fixing the Image: Visual Form in Antebellum Fiction,” which examines the influence of technical media on the aesthetic categories that antebellum American authors inherited from British romanticism. He received his PhD in English literature from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2013.
Lauren Coats is associate professor of English at Louisiana State University. She is completing a book, “Archives of Discovery: Mapping North America, 1728–1900,” and is the founding editor of Archive Journal. These projects reflect her research interest [End Page 453] in cultural representations of geography as well as in the production, organization, and circulation of archival material.
Marlene L. Daut is associate professor of English and cultural studies at Claremont Graduate University and an affiliate in the Intercollegiate Department of Africana Studies at the Claremont Colleges. She is the author of Tropics of Haiti: Race and the Literary History of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World, 1789–1865 (Liverpool University Press, 2015) and the forthcoming Baron de Vastey and the Origins of Black Atlantic Humanism (Palgrave Macmillan). She is also currently editing the first multilingual collection of fictional writings on the Haitian Revolution from the nineteenth century, “An Anthology of Haitian Revolutionary Fictions (Age of Slavery).” Her essays have appeared in Comparative Literature, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Small Axe, South Atlantic Review, and Research in African Literatures.
Marcy J. Dinius is an associate professor of English at DePaul University and a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow for 2015–16. Her book The Camera and the Press: American Visual and Print Culture in the Age of the Daguerreotype was published by the University of Pennsylvania Press in 2012. She is at work on two book-length projects: one on the broad influence of David Walker’s Appeal, and another on the print and visual culture of radical abolition.
Elizabeth Duquette is associate professor of English at Gettysburg College. She is the author of Loyal Subjects: Bonds of Nation, Race, and Allegiance in Nineteenth-Century America (Rutgers University Press, 2010), and the co-editor of Elizabeth Stuart Phelps: Selected Tales, Essays, and Poems (University of Nebraska Press, 2014). She is currently writing a book on Napoleon Bonaparte’s nineteenth-century empire.
Robert Fanuzzi is associate professor of English and American studies and associate provost at St. John’s University, where he teaches African-American and hemispheric American Literature and directs civic engagement initiatives in food policy, urban design, and community development. He is the author of Abolition’s Public Sphere (University of Minnesota Press, 2003); recent essay have appeared in Keywords for American Cultural Studies, first and second edition, American Literary History, Early American Literature, and ESQ. His contribution to this J19 special forum emerges from his current book project on Franco-American racial politics, titled “The [End Page 454] Empire Left Behind: French Colonial Modernity in the Age of American Nationalisms.”
Susan Gillman teaches world literature and cultural studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She has worked collaboratively on several essay collections, most recently...
