Contributor Biographies
- Contributor Biographies
David Faflik is associate professor of English at the University of Rhode Island. The author of Boarding Out: Inhabiting the American Urban Literary Imagination, 1840–1860 (Northwestern University Press, 2012), he is also the editor of Englishman Thomas Butler Gunn’s classic 1857 account of New York habitation, The Physiology of New York Boarding-Houses (Rutgers University Press, 2009). Faflik is currently at work on a book-length study of formal reading practices in the antebellum city.
Reed Gochberg is a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Humanistic Inquiry at Amherst College. She is currently working on a book project on museums and scientific knowledge in nineteenth-century American literature.
Gordon Hutner is a professor of American literature at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. The author and editor of several books on American literature and criticism, he is the founding editor of the journal American Literary History. His most recent publications include the second volume of his collection on immigration memoirs, Immigrant Voices, and a coedited collection, A New Deal for the Humanities: The Liberal Arts and the Future of Public Higher Education, with Feisal Mohammed.
Stephen Knadler is professor of English at Spelman College, where he teaches courses in US literature and cultural studies. He is the author of The Fugitive Race: Minority Writers Resisting Whiteness (University 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 United States disrupted and troubled the biopolitical management of racial citizenship through a material practice and language of health and disability. [End Page 191]
Robert S. Levine is Distinguished University Professor of English at the University of Maryland, College Park. His most recent book is The Lives of Frederick Douglass (Harvard University Press, 2016). He is the general editor of The Norton Anthology of American Literature and coeditor (with Cindy Weinstein) of a Norton Critical Edition of Melville’s Pierre (forthcoming).
Timothy Marr is the Bowman and Gordon Gray Distinguished Term Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he has taught since 2000. His scholarly interests include a focus on the life and works of Herman Melville and the transnational study of American engagements with Islam and Muslims. He is writing a cultural history of United States imperialism among the Muslim Moros of the southern Philippines.
Ashley Reed is assistant professor of English at Virginia Tech. Her monograph in progress explores how nineteenth-century authors used fiction to imagine new models of secular agency. She is the coeditor, with Kelly Bezio, of a special issue of Literature and Medicine on Literature, Medicine, and Religion (Fall 2014) and has published articles in Digital Humanities Quarterly and Essays in Romanticism.
Carolyn Sorisio is professor of English at West Chester University of Pennsylvania. She is the editor of College Literature: A Journal of Critical Literary Studies. Her recent work includes essays on Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins in Studies in American Indian Literatures and MELUS. She coedited The Newspaper Warrior: Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins’s Campaign for American Indian Rights, 1864–1891 (University of Nebraska Press, 2015), along with Cari M. Carpenter.
Timothy Sweet is Eberly Family Distinguished Professor of American Literature at West Virginia University. His publications include Traces of War: Poetry, Photography, and the Crisis of the Union (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990), American Georgics: Economy and Environment in Early American Literature (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002), and an edited collection, Literary Cultures of the Civil War (University of Georgia Press, 2016). [End Page 192]
