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John Brooks is a core visiting assistant professor at Boston College. He has published essays in PMLA and African American Review and is the author of a forthcoming book titled The Racial Unfamiliar: Encountering Illegibility in Contemporary African American Literature and Culture.

Maura D'Amore is an associate professor of English at St. Michael's College in Vermont. She is the author of Suburban Plots: Men at Home in Nineteenth-Century American Print Culture (University of Massachusetts Press, 2014).

Liana Kathleen Glew is a PhD candidate at Pennsylvania State University. Her dissertation considers the many modes of narrating experiences of US psychiatric hospitals in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, including fiction, memoirs, exposés, paperwork, and archival patient writing. In conversation with scholarship in bioethics, medical humanities, and disability studies, she develops methods of reading that center the agency of psychiatric patients.

Shari Goldberg is the author of Quiet Testimony: A Theory of Witnessing from Nineteenth-Century American Literature (Fordham University Press, 2013) and serves as assistant professor of English at Franklin & Marshall College. She has published articles in American Literature, Nineteenth-Century Literature, the Henry James Review, and Literature and Medicine (forthcoming). In 2018–19, she held a Boston Medical Library Fellowship in the History of Medicine.

Lindsey Grubbs is assistant professor of health sciences at California State University, East Bay, where she teaches courses in humanities and ethics. She researches the cultural history and contemporary ethics of psychiatric diagnosis and is at work on a cultural history of disordered morality in nineteenth-century America. Her work has been published in Literature & Medicine, American Journal of Bioethics: Neuroscience, and the Routledge Handbook of Neuroethics, and is forthcoming in the Cambridge Companion to American Literature and the Body.

Ahmad Greene-Hayes is a PhD candidate in the Department of Religion at Princeton University in the religion in America subfield and an interdisciplinary scholar pursuing graduate certificates from the Department of African American Studies and the Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies. His specialization is nineteenth- and twentieth-century African American religious history, and his work is principally located in Black South studies and Black Queer studies. Ahmad's dissertation, Gods of the Flesh: Religion, Sexuality, and Circum-Caribbean Migration in Black New Orleans, 1900–1940, is about the African diasporic religious cultures and sexual politics that emerged in New Orleans—a vibrant, American port city—amid Jim Crow policing and the migration of African Americans, West Indians, and Central Americans to the region in the early twentieth century.

Scott Hancock is an associate professor of history and Africana studies at Gettysburg College. After graduating in 1984 from Bryan College in Dayton, Tennessee, he spent fourteen years working in group homes with teenagers in crisis. Since receiving a PhD in early American history from the University of New Hampshire in 1999, he has focused on telling the stories of people whom society and history have tended to discount as either troublesome or unimportant.

DeLisa D. Hawkes is an assistant professor of English and affiliate faculty member of the African American studies program at the University of Texas at El Paso. She is currently working on her first book project, which focuses on representations of the interactions between Black and Indigenous peoples in nineteenth- and twentieth-century African American literature. She has published in peer-reviewed journals and edited collections, including MELUS, North Carolina Literary Review, and 21st Century US Historical Fiction: Contemporary Responses to the Past (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020).

Melissa J. Homestead is professor of English and program faculty in women's and gender studies at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, where she also directs the Cather Project and serves as associate editor of The Complete Letters of Willa Cather: A Digital Edition. She has published widely on American women's writing and authorship from the Early Republic through the early twentieth century, and her book The Only Wonderful Things: The Creative Partnership of Willa Cather and Edith Lewis will be published by Oxford University Press in April 2021.

Gordon Hutner is professor of English at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is the author and editor of many books and articles, including Secrets and Sympathy: Hawthorne's Forms...

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