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  • Contributors

patricia mckee is the Edward Hyde Cox Professor in the Humanities at Dartmouth. Her most recent book is Reading Constellations: Urban Modernity in Victorian Fiction.

chad bennett is an assistant professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin. His current book project explores the dynamic relationship between modern American poetry and the queer art of gossip.

aaron carico is a lecturer in African American Studies and Ethnicity, Race, and Migration at Yale University. He is currently completing a manuscript titled "Black Market: Slavery's Currency in American Culture after 1865" (forthcoming, University of North Carolina Press).

alexander rocca is a doctoral candidate in American literature at Columbia University and a contributing editor with Public Books.

tracy l. bealer currently teaches literature and composition at Borough of Manhattan Community College. She has published on William Faulkner, Alice Walker, Quentin Tarantino, Harry Potter and Twilight, and co-edited Neil Gaiman and Philosophy for Open Court's Pop Culture and Philosophy series.

sharada balachandran orihuela is Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Maryland, College Park. Her current book project, Undocumented: Piracy and Personhood in Hemispheric American Literature, brings together a diverse range of texts to argue that dispossed persons turn to piracy to unsettle the ties between property ownership and national membership. [End Page 161]

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