Contributors

Contributors Jennifer Harris is a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Windsor. She is also managing editor of the Alphabet City cultural studies series. Select forthcoming publications include “Rebel with a Questionable Cause: Charlotte Temple, the Domestic, and the New Nation” in the Lamar Journal of the Humanities, and contributions to An Encyclopedia of African American Literature. Yael Ben-zvi is a Kreitman Foundation postdoctoral fellow at the department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics at Ben-Gurion University. She is currently researching the construction of native status in literary and ethnographic discourses in nineteenth-century US culture. James D. Slack is Professor and Chair of the Department of Government at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). He also holds senior appointments in the UAB School of Public Health’s Lister Hill Center for Health Policy and in the UAB Medical School’s Center for AIDS Research. Mark Feeser is a Budget Examiner with the New York State Division of the Budget. He is a graduate of the Master of Public Administration Program at The University of Alabama at Birmingham, where he held a graduate assistantship in the Department of Government. JuLee A. Pallette is an Outdoor Recreation Planner with the Bureau of Land Management , US Department of the Interior. She is a graduate of the Master of Public Administration Program at California State University, Bakersfield, where she was awarded the Sally Casanova Pre-Doctoral Scholarship. Sarah Emsley is a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the Rothermere American Institute in the University of Oxford, working on a study of ethics and aesthetics in Edith Wharton’s novels. She has published articles on Jane Austen, Eliza Fenwick, Harriet Jacobs, Caroline Kirkland, Christopher Marlowe, and Geoffrey Chaucer. Tatiana van Riemsdijk is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Wilfrid Laurier University. Her current project, “Saving Souls and Solving Slavery : Reform Politics of Chesapeake Evangelicals, 1790-1840,” examines benevolent activities of rural slaveholding women, including black and white Sunday Schools, and the American Colonization Society. ...