Contributors
- Contributors
KATY L. CHILES is Associate Professor of English at the University of Tennessee, where she teaches and writes about African American and Native American literature, early American literature, and critical race theory. Her first book, Transformable Race: Surprising Metamorphoses in the Literature of Early America, was published by Oxford University Press. Her work has appeared in journals such as PMLA, American Literature, and Early American Literature and has been supported by the Mellon Foundation and the NEH. Her current book project examines race, collaboration, and print history in early American literature. She can be reached at kchiles1@utk.edu.
THOMAS CONSTANTINESCO is Associate Professor at Université Paris Diderot and a Junior Fellow of the Institut Universitaire de France. He is the author of Ralph Waldo Emerson: L’Amérique à l’essai (Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essaying America, 2012) and co-edited, with Sophie Laniel-Musitelli, Romanticism and Philosophy: Thinking with Literature (2015). His research has appeared in New England Quarterly, ESQ, Transatlantica, and Revue Française d’Études Américaines, and includes essays on Emerson, James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe and Henry James. He has also translated works by Washington Irving, Emerson, Melville, James, and Twain into French. He can be reached at thomas.constantinesco@univ-paris-diderot.fr.
MARLENE L. DAUT holds a joint appointment as Associate Professor of African Diaspora Studies in the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African American and African Studies and the Program in American Studies at the University of Virginia. She is the author of Tropics of Haiti: Race and the Literary History of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World, 1789–1865 (2015), and Baron de Vastey and the Origins of Black Atlantic Humanism (2017). She is now working on a collaborative project entitled, An Anthology of Haitian Revolutionary Fictions (Age of Slavery). Daut is also the co-creator and co-editor of H-Net Commons’ digital platform, H-Haiti, and she has developed an online bibliography of fictions of the Haitian Revolution from 1787 to 1900 at the website http://haitianrevolutionaryfictions.com. She can be reached at mld9b@virginia.edu. [End Page 90]
JOHN ERNEST, Judge Hugh M. Morris Professor of English and Chair of the Department of English at the University of Delaware, is the author or editor of twelve books, including Chaotic Justice: Rethinking African American Literary History (2009) and The Oxford Handbook of the African American Slave Narrative (2014). With Joycelyn K. Moody, he serves as series editor of Regenerations: African American Literature and Culture. He can be reached at jrernest@udel.edu.
BENJAMIN FAGAN is Assistant Professor of English at Auburn University, where he teaches courses in early African American literature and culture. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in American Periodicals, American Literary History, Legacy, and African American Review. He is the author of The Black Newspaper and the Chosen Nation (2016), which was named an Honorable Mention for the Research Society for American Periodicals Book Prize. He is also the editor of African American Literature in Transition, 1830–1850, a volume of scholarly essays forthcoming from Cambridge University Press. He can be reached at fagan@auburn.edu.
JEROME MCGANN is the John Stewart Bryan University Professor at the University of Virginia and regular Visiting Research Professor, University of California, Berkeley. He is currently completing a book on colonial American literature and culture, 1610–1790, which will be followed by a study of American work from 1790 to the end of the nineteenth century. His email address is jjm2f@virginia.edu.
SHARADA BALACHANDRAN ORIHUELA is Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Maryland, College Park. She specializes in nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first century hemispheric American literature. Her first book, Fugitives, Smugglers, and Thieves: Piracy and Personhood in American Literature, is forthcoming from the University of North Carolina Press. Her articles have appeared in Arizona Quarterly, J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists, and Environmental Communication. She can be reached at sbalacha@umd.edu.
SARAH SALTER is Assistant Professor of English at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi and a Visiting Scholar at the University of New Orleans Midlo Center for New Orleans Studies. Her current research focuses on prehistories of...
