Contributors
- Contributors
kellen bolt . . .
is an instructor of English at Elgin Community College. He specializes in the literary histories of immigration in the United States and transatlantic world in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. His dissertation explores how immigrant writers imagined extralegal, cultural forms of US citizenship that were cultivated by interacting with nature rather than acquired through formalized naturalization procedures during the Open Door Era (1790–1882). He has published an essay on this work in Early American Literature. In addition to his research, he also cofounded and coorganized the Graduate Digital Humanities Pedagogy Workshop at Northwestern University.
gordon fraser . . .
is a presidential fellow and lecturer in American studies at the University of Manchester. His scholarship has appeared in PMLA, American Quarterly, and J19, among other journals. He completed this article while on fellowship at the Center for Humanities and Information at Pennsylvania State University.
jennifer lewis . . .
is an associate lecturer at Bath Spa University, where she teaches courses in American and British literature. Her research develops a phenomenological approach to nineteenth-century American literature, exploring the representation of embodied experience. She uses the insights of such phenomenologists as Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Hans Jonas, Frantz Fanon, and Iris Marion Young to investigate how, in all senses, bodies make themselves felt in narrative.
elissa zellinger . . .
is an assistant professor of English at Texas Tech University. Her research interests center on lyric poetry and liberal political philosophy, specifically in nineteenth-century American women’s poetry. Her book project, Lyrical Strains: Lyric, Liberalism, and Women’s Poetry, 1820–1920, is forthcoming from the University of North Carolina Press. She has published articles on poets such as Edna St. Vincent Millay and Stephen Crane; her most recent article, appearing in Legacy, foregrounds letters from the Elizabeth Akers Allen archive.
