Author Bios
- Author Bios
Abram Van Engen is associate professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis. He is the author of Sympathetic Puritans: Calvinist Fellow-Feeling in Early New England (Oxford University Press, 2015) and The Meaning of America: How the United States Became the City on a Hill (Yale University Press, forthcoming).
Benjamin Fagan is associate professor of English at Auburn University. He is the author of The Black Newspaper and the Chosen Nation (University of Georgia Press, 2016).
Elizabeth Fenton is associate professor of English at the University of Vermont. She is the author of Religious Liberties: Anti-Catholicism and Liberal Democracy in Nineteenth-Century US Literature and Culture (2011) and coeditor, with Jared Hickman, of the forthcoming volume Americanist Approaches to The Book of Mormon (Oxford, 2019). She currently is completing a book-length study of the Hebraic Indian theory.
Amanda Mehsima Licato received her BA in English from the University of California, Berkeley, and her PhD in English from Stanford University. Her dissertation, “‘Out from behind This Mask’: Persona in African American Poetry, 1830–1930,” leverages performative traditions of masking in the Western lyric tradition to propose that critics have overlooked the formal innovations of black poets. She is currently a faculty member in the English Department at St. Albans School in Washington, DC.
Don James McLaughlin is assistant professor of nineteenth-century American literature in the English Department at the University of Tulsa and the 2018–2019 Hench Post-dissertation Fellow at the American Antiquarian Society. He is writing a book on the history of phobia as a medical diagnostic, political metaphor, and aesthetic sensation in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature in the Americas. His writing has appeared in American Literature, and the New Republic, and is currently forthcoming in Literature and Medicine and Commonplace: The Journal of Early American Life.
Jan Mieszkowski is professor of German and comparative literature at Reed College. He is the author of Labors of Imagination: Aesthetics and Political Economy from Kant to Althusser (Fordham University Press, 2006), Watching War (Stanford University Press, 2012), and Crises of the Sentence (University of Chicago Press, 2019). Mieszkowski’s recent articles explore a range of topics in romanticism, modernism, and critical theory; he has also published and lectured widely on the spectacles of the permanent war economy.
Clare Mullaney is visiting assistant professor of literature at Hamilton College, and she received her PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in August 2018. Her book manuscript, American Imprints: Disability and the Material Text, 1861–1927, argues that acknowledging texts as made objects brings into focus how turn-of-the-century authors grapple with disability at the level of textual form.
Tom Nurmi is assistant professor of English at Montana State University Billings. His first book, Melville and Ecology, is forthcoming from the University of Virginia Press.
Stephen Pasqualina is a postdoctoral fellow in the Core Humanities program at the University of Nevada, Reno. His research focuses on modernist literature and visual media, the history of technology, and historiography and historical theory. His current book project examines the technological mediation of historical memory in US modernism from 1880 to 1945.
Kevin Pelletier is associate professor of English at the University of Richmond and author of Apocalyptic Sentimentalism: Love and Fear in U.S. Antebellum Literature (University of Georgia Press, 2015).
Valerie Rohy is professor of English at the University of Vermont. She is the author of Impossible Women: Lesbian Figures and American Literature (Cornell University Press, 2000), Anachronism and Its Others: Sexuality, Race, Temporality (SUNY Press, 2009), and Lost Causes: Narrative, Etiology, and Queer Theory (Oxford University Press, 2015). She also coedited American Local Color Writing, 1880–1920 (Penguin, 1998).
Claudia Stokes is professor of English at Trinity University, and she is the author of several books, including, most recently, The Altar at Home: Sentimental Literature and Nineteenth-Century American Religion (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014).
