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  • Contributor Biographies

Avram Alpert is a Mellon Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of English and Center for Cultural Analysis at Rutgers University for 2014–16. His essays have been published in diacritics, Early American Literature, Postcolonial Studies, the Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy, and Third Text.

Rebeccah Bechtold is an assistant professor of English at Wichita State University. Her work has appeared in Southern Quarterly, ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance, Journal of the Early Republic, and Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice.

Stephanie P. Browner, professor of literature and dean of Eugene Lang College, The New School, works on Charles Chesnutt and is the founder and editor of the Charles Chesnutt Digital Archive. She has published on literature and medicine, including Profound Science and Elegant Literature: Imagining Doctors in Nineteenth-Century American Literature, and on digital humanities.

Tara Bynum is a postdoctoral fellow in African American literature in the department of English at Rutgers University. Her book project, Reading Pleasures, examines the curious relationship between pleasure, race, and interiority in early African American literature.

Frances M. Clarke is a senior lecturer at the University of Sydney, Australia, with research interests in nineteenth-century history, the American Civil War, and war trauma. She is the author of War Stories: Suffering and Sacrifice in the Civil War North (University of Chicago Press, 2011). Her most recent work is a collaborative project examining the relationship between age and militarism over the course of US history.

Nan Z. Da is an assistant professor of American literature at the University of Notre Dame. Her book project, “Formality and the Literature of Intransitive Transnationalisms,” tries to develop a [End Page 223] hermeneutic for the superficial transnational encounters in the literary rapprochements between China and the United States in the nineteenth century. She has published on early American literature, contemporary Chinese poetry, and the futures of the praxis of feminism in American Literary History, J19, Henry James Review, and, more recently, Signs.

Theo Davis is associate professor of English at Northeastern University. She is the author of Formalism, Experience, and the Making of American Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2007) and of Ornamental Aesthetics: The Poetry of Attending in Thoreau, Dickinson, and Whitman (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2016).

Thomas Alan Dichter is a lecturer on history and literature at Harvard University. His research focuses on the relationship between race and state violence in US literature and culture.

Joseph Dimuro is a continuing lecturer and faculty undergraduate advisor in the English department at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he specializes in American literature and the theory of the novel. He has published in the journal Textual Cultures and is the editor of Henry Blake Fuller’s novels, The Cliff-Dwellers (2010) and Bertram Cope’s Year (2010), both published by the Broadview Press.

Jim Downs is currently a Mellon Fellow at Harvard University and is also an associate professor of history and American studies at Connecticut College. He is the author of Sick from Freedom: African American Illness and Suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction (Oxford University Press, 2012).

Catherine A. Jones is associate professor of history at University of California, Santa Cruz. She recently published her first book, Intimate Reconstructions: Children in Postemancipation Virginia (University of Virginia Press, 2015).

David Kazanjian is associate professor of English and comparative literature and literary theory at the University of Pennsylvania. His most recent book is The Brink of Freedom: Improvising Life in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World (Duke University Press, 2016).

Cecilia Konchar Farr is chair of the English department, Carondelet Scholar, and professor of English and women’s studies in the Women’s College at the St. Catherine University in St. Paul, Minnesota. Her publications on the novel and its reception include Reading Oprah: How Oprah’s Book Club Changed the Way America Reads (SUNY Press, 2004), A Wizard of Their Age: Critical Essays from the Harry Potter Generation, edited with seven undergraduate students [End Page 224] (SUNY Press, 2015), and the forthcoming The Ulysses Delusion: Rethinking Standards of Literary Merit (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016).

Maurice Lee is chair and professor of English at Boston University, where his work focuses on nineteenth...

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