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Melissa J. Homestead, Professor of English and Program Faculty in Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, specializes in American women’s authorship, publishing history, and the novel from the Early Republic through the early twentieth century. She is the author of American Women Authors and Literary Property, 1822–1869 (2005) and numerous scholarly essays on authors from Susanna Rowson to Bess Streeter Aldrich, as well as co-editor of Willa Cather and Modern Cultures (2011), Clarence by Catharine Sedgwick (2011), and E.D.E.N. Southworth: Recovering a Nineteenth-Century Popular Novelist (2012). Her study of Willa Cather’s creative partnership with Edith Lewis, a magazine editor and advertising copywriter with whom she shared a home for four decades, is under contract with Oxford University Press.

Stephen Knadler is Professor of English at Spelman College where he teaches courses in U.S. literature and cultural studies. He is the author of The Fugitive Race: Minority Writers Resisting Whiteness (U Press of Mississippi, 2002) and Remapping Citizenship and the Nation in African American Literature (Routledge, 2009/10). His current project Sanitary Citizenship: Vitality Politics and the Black Lives of Racial Uplift theorizes and examines how African American cultural production in the early twentieth-century U.S. disrupted and troubled the biopolitical management of racial citizenship around a language of health and disability.

Christopher Lloyd is a Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Hertfordshire. He is the author of Rooting Memory, Rooting Place: Regionalism in the Twenty-First-Century American South (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), an article in south: an scholarly journal and book chapters on Hurricane Katrina and the Southern Gothic. Christopher is editing a forthcoming special issue of Mississippi Quarterly and is working on a new book, Corporeal Legacies. [End Page 277]

Molly K. Robey is Assistant Professor of English at Illinois Wesleyan University. She has authored essays on US women’s writings on the Middle East which have appeared in American Literature and Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature. She is currently working on a book project that examines the role of religion in the construction of the “New Woman.”

Claudia Stokes is professor of English at Trinity University. She is the author of The Altar at Home: Sentimental Literature and Nineteenth-Century American Religion (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014) and Writers in Retrospect: The Rise of American Literary History, 1875–1910 (North Carolina, 2006). She is currently writing a book about nineteenth-century literary unoriginality.

Clayton Zuba is an independent scholar. His work has appeared in Studies in American Fiction and Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture, as well as in Community Without Consent: New Perspectives on the Stamp Act, edited by Zach Hutchins. His research has been supported by the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the American Antiquarian Society, and the University of Delaware. He currently resides with his wife and two kittens in Phoenix, Arizona. [End Page 278]

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