Notes on Contributors
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agnes andeweg is assistant professor in modern literature at University College Utrecht. She publishes on Dutch literature, gothic fiction, and cultural history and memory. With Sue Zlosnik she edited the volume Gothic Kinship (Manchester UP, 2013). Her essay "Manifestations of the Flying Dutchman: On Materializing Ghosts and (Not) Remembering the Colonial Past" was awarded the essay prize of the International Society for Cultural History in 2014. She has edited a book on the cultural dimensions of sexual liberation, Seks in de nationale verbeelding (Amsterdam UP, 2015), and also on this topic a special section of Culture and Sexuality (2017).
anne baker is associate professor of English at North Carolina State University. She is the author of Heartless Immensity: Literature, Culture, and Geography in Antebellum America (U of Michigan P, 2006) and is currently working on a biography of Susanna Rowson.
george boulukos is professor of English and director of graduate studies in the Department of English at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. He is the author of The Grateful Slave (Cambridge UP, 2008) and the editor of the never-before-published memoir by an eighteenth-century stable boy, Memoirs on the Life and Travels of Thomas Hammond, 1775–1782 (U of Virginia P, 2017). His current project, "A Vindication of the Rights of Monsters," analyzing texts from Cugoano's Thoughts and Sentiments to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, argues that the Enlightenment discourse of "the rights of man" at once authorized slave rebellions and enjoined that rebel slaves must be killed.
lori j. daggar is a historian of North America and an assistant professor at Ursinus College near Philadelphia. Her work analyzes philanthropy and reform, capitalism, and empire and the ways in which indigenous peoples shaped these phenomena in North America. She has published work in the Journal of the Early Republic and in Ignacio Gallup-Diaz and Geoffrey Plank's Quakers and Native Americans. Her first book project, Cultivating Empire: Philanthropy, Profit, and the Negotiation of American Imperialism in Indian Country, is under contract with the University of Pennsylvania Press.
jonathan daigle is associate professor of English at Hillyer College in the University of Hartford. He has published several articles on race, genre, and social science in late nineteenth-century US fiction. His current project examines African American responses to the melodramatic turn in turn-of-the-century US racial discourse.
andrew ferris is a doctoral candidate in English at Princeton University. He is currently completing a dissertation on the writing of history from English colonial North America and the representation of native culture and politics.
reed gochberg is a lecturer in history and literature at Harvard University. Her research and teaching interests broadly include nineteenth-century American literature, the history of science, and the history of collecting. She is currently at work on a book project that examines the literary and cultural debates that surrounded the formation of scientific museum collections during the nineteenth century. Her work has also appeared in J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists.
damaris b. hill is assistant professor of creative writing, American literature, and African American studies at the University of Kentucky. She is the author of \ Vizə-bəl \ \ Teks-chərs \ (Visible Textures) (Mammoth Publications, 2015) and The Fluid Boundaries of Suffrage and Jim Crow: Staking Claims in the American Heartland (Lexington Books, 2016). Her most recent book, A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing: The Incarceration of African American Women from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland, appeared with Bloomsbury in January 2019.
helen hunt is professor of English at Tennessee Technological University. Her work appears in Legacy and has been supported by the American Antiquarian Society and the Library Company of Philadelphia.
christina bieber lake is the Clyde S. Kilby Professor of English at Wheaton College, where she teaches classes in contemporary American literature and literary theory. Lake is the author of numerous essays and books, including Prophets of the Posthuman: American Fiction, Biotechnology, and the Ethics of Personhood (2014), and the forthcoming Beyond the Story: American Literary Fiction and the Limits of Materialism, both with the University of Notre Dame Press.
lynnette g. leonard is associate professor and department chair of journalism and mass communication at the...
