- Contributors
margaret jay jessee is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Alabama at Birmingham where she teaches courses on American literature, women writers, and gender theory. Her publications have appeared or are forthcoming in Nathaniel Hawthorne in Context (Cambridge UP, 2018); Edith Wharton: Critical Insights (Salem Press, 2017); JML: A Journal of Modern Literature; South Atlantic Review; and Nathaniel Hawthorne Review. Her current research on women physicians in American literature includes her essay, "'The Third Sex': Nineteenth-Century Doctresses in Liminal Literary Spaces," which appears in Liminality, Hybridity, and American Women's Literature: Thresholds in Women's Writing (Palgrave 2018).
cynthia j. davis is a Professor of English and the Associate Dean for Arts, Humanities, and Communications at the University of South Carolina. Her most recent book publication was a biography of Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Stanford UP, 2010). She recently completed a monograph on physical pain and US literary realism; an article derived from that project appeared in the September 2015 issue of American Literature.
mariah crilley is a doctoral candidate in early American Literature at West Virginia University and an Instructor in the Focused Inquiry Department at Virginia Commonwealth University. Her research interests include ecocriticism, the history of medicine, and disability studies.
marlowe daly-galeano is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Hells Canyon Institute at Lewis-Clark State College. Her work on Alcott has been published or is forthcoming in Reconstruction, Women's Studies, Girls Series Fiction and American Popular Culture (Lexington, 2016), and Critical Insights: Little Women (Salem Press, 2015).
patrick s. allen is a doctoral candidate in English at the Pennsylvania State University, where he specializes in African American [End Page 205] literature, Black print cultures, and the critical medical humanities. His dissertation, A Practice of Print: Race, Doctoring, and Medicine in Post-Bellum, Pre-Harlem Black Print Culture, traces the advance of what he calls a Black critical medical humanism—an approach to bettering medicine, health(care), and wellness that was inherently skeptical of the era's scientific "truths" and that was attuned to the realities of race, gender, and the American biopolitical environment.
vesna kuiken is Visiting Assistant Professor at the University at Albany, SUNY. She is currently completing a book manuscript on regionalism, women, and islands in American Literature. Her work has appeared in the collection American Impersonal: Essays with Sharon Cameron (Bloomsbury, 2014), J19, Arizona Quarterly, Nineteenth-Century Prose, and the Henry James Review. She is the recipient of the Leon Edel Prize for the best essay on Henry James in 2016.
frederick wegener is a professor of English at California State University, Long Beach. His publications include Edith Wharton: The Uncollected Critical Writings and the Penguin Classics edition of Sarah Orne Jewett's A Country Doctor. His articles on Wharton, Henry James, Charles Chesnutt, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and others have appeared in American Literature, Texas Studies in Literature and Language, Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, Legacy, and other journals as well as edited collections. He is an associate editor of The Complete Works of Edith Wharton, to be published in 30 volumes by Oxford University Press.
deidre hall is an English instructor at the South Carolina Governor's School for Science and Mathematics. Her current book project considers the interventions made by late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American fiction in the professionalization of medicine. [End Page 206]