Contributors
- Contributors
JAMES BERKEY is Assistant Professor of English at Penn State Brandywine, where he teaches courses in American Literature and directs the Brandywine Writing Studio. He has published essays on soldier newspapers from the Spanish-S War in the Journal of Transnational American Studies and the Journal of Modern Periodical Studies, contributed essays to Literary Cultures of the Civil War (ed. Timothy Sweet, 2016) and Visions of Glory: The Civil War in Word and Image (eds. Kathleen Diffley and Benjamin Fagan, 2019), and co-edited a special issue of American Periodicals on war and periodicals with Mark Noonan in 2016. He has an article on poetry in Civil War newspapers forthcoming in Mississippi Quarterly and is currently working on a book-length project about Civil War soldier newspapers. He can be reached at: jhb5255@psu.edu.
KATHLEEN DIFFLEY is an associate professor of English at the University of Iowa and Director of the Civil War Caucus at the M/MLA. She is the author of Where My Heart Is Turning Ever: Civil War Stories and Constitutional Reform (Georgia 1992), and a sequel, The Fateful Lightning: Civil War Stories and the Magazine Marketplace, now under contract. In contributions to nine scholarly collections, she has remained caught up in magazine recollections of the Civil War during the 1860s and 1870s. She may be reached at kathleen-diffley@uiowa.edu.
BRIGITTE FIELDER is assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is (with Jonathan Senchyne) co-editor of Against a Sharp White Background: Infrastructures of African American Print. Her first book, theorizing genealogies of interracial kinship in nineteenth-century US literatures, is forthcoming from Duke University Press in 2020. She is currently working on a second book, on racialized human-animal relationships in the long nineteenth century. She is one of several conveners of the Just Teach One—Early African American Print project.
TIM LANZENDÖRFER is visiting assistant professor of American Studies at Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, and Heisenberg Fellow for literary theory and literary studies from the summer of 2020. He is the author of The Professionalization of the American Magazine: Periodicals, Biography, and Nationalism in the Early Republic (2013) and Books of the Dead: Reading the Zombie in Contemporary Literature (2018). He is the editor of the forthcoming Routledge Companion to the Literary Magazine, and a board member of the Research Society for American Periodicals. He can be reached at tim.lanzendorfer@gmx.net.
MELINDA KNIGHT is Professor of English and the founding director of the Center for Writing Excellence at Montclair State University. Her research interests include the intersections of class, gender, identity, and race in American literature, manifestations of aestheticism and decadence, the impact of urbanization on cultural products, and representations of the American West. She has previously published in American Periodicals. She can be reached at knightm@montclair.edu.
KELLEY KREITZ is Assistant Professor of English and affiliate faculty member in the Latinx Studies program at Pace University in New York City. She is also director of the university’s digital humanities center, Babble Lab. Her research on print and digital cultures of the Americas has appeared in American Literary History, English Language Notes, Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, and the digital mapping project C19LatinoNYC.org. She is currently completing her first book, which recovers the leading role played by U. S.-based Latin American writers in the media innovation of the 1880s and 1890s. She can be contacted at kkreitz@pace.edu.
MARTHA JANE NADELL is Associate Professor of English at Brooklyn College. She is the author of Enter the New Negroes: Images of Race in American Culture (Harvard 2004) and several articles. She can be reached at mnadell@brooklyn.cuny.edu.
KINOHI NISHIKAWA is Assistant Professor of English and African American Studies at Princeton University. He is the author of Street Players: Black Pulp Fiction and the Making of a Literary Underground (Chicago 2018), which examines the commercialization of sex and race in postwar American paperbacks and pin-up magazines. His articles on African American newspapers and periodicals have appeared in Book History, Chicago Review, and the edited collection Black Cultural Production after Civil Rights (Illinois 2019). He can be reached at kinohin@princeton...
