Contributors
- Contributors
AYENDY BONIFACIO is Assistant Professor of U. S. ethnic literary studies at the University of Toledo. His scholarship on nineteenth-century periodicals is published or forthcoming in American Periodicals, Prose Studies, Comparative American Studies, American Literary Realism, and J19. He is currently at work on a book that sits at the intersection of nineteenth-century Latinidad and reprint culture. He can be reached at ayendy9@gmail.com.
KATHARINE CAPSHAW is Professor of English and Africana Studies at the University of Connecticut and author of Civil Rights Childhood: Picturing Liberation in African American Photobooks (University of Minnesota Press, 2014) and Children's Literature of the Harlem Renaissance (Indiana University Press, 2006), and co-editor of Who Writes for Black Children? African American Children's Literature before 1900 (University of Minnesota Press, 2017). She has published on twentieth-century Black children's periodicals, with an essay on photography and play in Du Bois's The Brownies' Book, forthcoming in the Journal of the History of Children and Youth.
MATT COHEN teaches in the department of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where he is also a Fellow in the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities. With Kenneth M. Price and Ed Folsom, he co-directs the Walt Whitman Archive (http://www.whitmanarchive.org), and with Price and Stephanie Browner co-edits the Charles W. Chesnutt Archive (http://www.chesnuttarchive.org).
SAMANTHA GILMORE is a Ph.D. student in the Department of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and is an editorial assistant for the Charles W. Chesnutt Archive and the Walt Whitman Archive.
DANIEL HANNAH is Associate Professor of English at Lakehead University. He is the author of two books, Henry James, Impressionism, and the Public (Ashgate, 2013) and Queer Atlantic: Masculinities, Mobilities, and the Emergence of Modernism (forthcoming from McGill-Queens University Press).
JOSHUA A. MITCHELL is Lecturer in the Department of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. He was a James P. Danky Fellow in the Center for the History of Print and Digital Culture at University of Wisconsin–Madison, and his writing on film culture in prison periodicals has appeared in the journal Film History.
MARÍA CARLA SÁNCHEZ is Associate Professor of English at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. She is co-editor, along with Linda Schlossberg, of Passing: Identity and Interpretation in Sexuality, Race, and Religion (NYU Press, 2001) and author of Reforming the World: Social Activism and the Problem of Fiction in Nineteenth-Century America (Iowa University Press, 2008), as well as articles on nineteenth-century literature, Latinx issues, and pedagogy. Her work in progress, The Imagination of Slavery, examines nineteenth-century U. S. and Mexican literature of war and imperialism. She can be reached at mcsanche@uncg.edu.
SARAH J. SILLIN is Assistant Professor of transnational U. S. literature at Central Washington University. Her scholarship on feeling and foreign relations in nineteenth-century prose and cartoons appears in J19, African American Review, the Journal of American Studies, Early American Literature, and MELUS. Currently she edits for the International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity and the Account. She can be reached at sarah.sillin@cwu.edu.
EDLIE WONG is Professor of English at the University of Maryland, College Park and the author of Racial Reconstruction: Black Inclusion, Chinese Exclusion, and the Fictions of Citizenship (NYU Press, 2015) and Neither Fugitive nor Free: Atlantic Slavery, Freedom Suits, and the Legal Culture of Travel (NYU Press, 2009).
MICHAEL C. WEISENBURG is Reference and Instruction Librarian for the Irvin Department of Rare Books and Special Collections at the University of South Carolina. He has published articles in the New England Quarterly and Rhetoric Society Quarterly. His most recent work, "Beyond the Borders of Time: Thoreau and the 'Ante-Pilgrim History' of the New Word," can be found in Thoreau Beyond Borders: New International Essays on America's Most Famous Nature Writer (2020), and he is the current editor of Emerson Society Papers.
