Bios
- Bios
Ashley C. Barnes is assistant professor at the University of Texas at Dallas and the author of Love and Depth in the American Novel from Stowe to James (University of Virginia Press, 2020). Her essays have appeared in Legacy, the Henry James Review, Arizona Quarterly, and on the website Avidly.
Laura E. Free is associate professor of history at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, New York. She is the author of Suffrage Reconstructed: Gender, Race, and Voting Rights in the Civil War Era (Cornell University Press, 2015) and the host of the women’s history podcast Amended from Humanities New York. She is currently writing a new book, tentatively titled Swear: An American History of Oath-Making, Oath-Taking, and Oath Breaking.
Jennie Kassanoff is the Adolph S. and Effie Ochs Professor of American Studies and History at Barnard College, Columbia University, where she is a professor of English. She is the author of Edith Wharton and the Politics of Race (Cambridge University Press, 2004) and is currently completing a new book, entitled Voter Writes: Race, Gender and the Ballot. Her essays have appeared in PMLA, American Literature, the A-Line: A Journal for Progressive Thought, the Henry James Review, and American Literary History, among other books and journals.
Thomas Koenigs is associate professor of English at Scripps College in Claremont, California. His articles and essays have appeared in ELH, American Literature, Early American Literature, ESQ, and the Journal of American Studies. His first book, tentatively titled Founded in Fiction: The Uses of Fiction in the Early United State, is forthcoming from Princeton University Press in 2021.
Christopher Malone is founding dean of the School of Arts and Sciences and professor of political science at Molloy College. In April 2020, Malone was appointed by New York City mayor Bill DeBlasio to serve on the Voter Assistance Advisory Committee of the New York City Campaign Finance Board. He is the author of Between Freedom and Bondage: Race, Party and Voting Rights in the Antebellum North (Routledge, 2008) and coeditor and contributing author of Occupying Political Science: OWS From New York to the World (Palgrave, 2012) and The Organic Globalizer: Hip Hop, Political Development and Movement Culture (Bloomsbury, 2014).
Leila Mansouri is assistant professor of English at Scripps College. Her articles and essays have appeared in NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction, Los Angeles Review of Books, and The New Inquiry, among others, and her research has been supported by fellowships from the American Antiquarian Society and the Library Company of Philadelphia. She is currently writing a book on electoral politics, race, and the aesthetics of representativeness in the early United States.
Édouard Marsoin is lecturer in English at Université de Paris. His research focuses on the representations and problematizations of pleasure and jouissance in Melville’s fiction and nineteenth-century US literature. He is the author of a book—Melville et l’usage des plaisirs (Paris: Sorbonne Université Presses, 2019)—and several articles published in journals such as Textual Practice and Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies.
Christina Michelon is assistant curator of art and special collections at the Boston Athenaeum. She specializes in nineteenth-century American visual and material culture and received her PhD in art history from the University of Minnesota. Her current book project, Printcraft: Making with Mass Images in Nineteenth-Century America, has been supported by an NEH-American Antiquarian Society Fellowship, a postdoctoral fellowship at the Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library, and an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship at the Library Company of Philadelphia.
Vanessa Ovalle Perez is assistant professor of English at California State University, San Bernardino. Currently, she is writing a book exploring the social and poetic aspects of texts published by Latinas in Spanish-language California newspapers of the nineteenth and early-twentieth century. Her writing has appeared in Letras Femeninas, and her podcast episode on Latina dedication poetry is available on the C19 Podcast.
Karen Sánchez-Eppler is L. Stanton Williams 1941 Professor of American Studies and English at Amherst College. The author of Touching Liberty: Abolition, Feminism and the Politics of the Body (University of California Press, 1993) and Dependent States: The Child’s Part in Nineteenth-Century American...
