Contributors
- Contributors
elizabeth renker . . .
is a professor of English at Ohio State and the author of Realist Poetics in American Culture, 1866–1900 (Oxford UP, 2018), The Origins of American Literature Studies: An Institutional History (Cambridge UP, 2007), and Strike Through the Mask: Herman Melville and the Scene of Writing (Johns Hopkins UP, 1996), as well as the editor of Poems: A Concise Anthology (Broadview P, 2016).
eliza richards . . .
is an associate professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She teaches and writes about American literature and culture before 1900, with a particular emphasis on poetry. She is the author of Gender and the Poetics of Reception in Poe’s Circle (Cambridge UP, 2004) and the editor of Emily Dickinson in Context (Cambridge UP, 2013). A new book entitled Battle Lines: Poetry and Mass Media in the US Civil War is forthcoming from University of Pennsylvania Press. She was awarded a National Humanities Center Fellowship to work on this project.
jess roberts . . .
is a professor of English at Albion College and the director of Albion’s Big Read. Her essays on Sarah Piatt have appeared in the Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Poetry (Cambridge UP, 2011) and A History of Nineteenth-Century American Women’s Poetry (Cambridge UP, 2017). Her current work uses literature as a resource for creating and sustaining community.
christa holm vogelius . . .
is an assistant professor of American studies at the University of Copenhagen, where she works on literature and visual culture in the long nineteenth century. She has published on ekphrasis, photography, and material culture in relation to writers including Emily Dickinson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Sophia and Nathaniel Hawthorne. She is currently completing a monograph on mid-nineteenth-century women writers in which she posits visual-literary copying practices as a countercurrent to American literary nationalism.
