Early African American Print Culture

List of Contributors

contributors susanna ashton is an associate professor of English at Clemson University . She is the editor of I Belong to South Carolina: South Carolina Slave Narratives (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2010) and The South Carolina Roots of African American Thought: A Reader, co-edited with Rhondda Thomas (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2012). joanna brooks is an associate professor in the Department of English at San Diego State University. Her book, American Lazarus: Religion and the Rise of African-American and Native American Literatures (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003), won the MLA’s William Sanders Scarborough Award for outstanding book in African American literature. corey capers is an assistant professor of history and African American studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. His book, Public Blackness, Printed Bodies, is forthcoming from the University of Pennsylvania Press. lar a langer cohen is an assistant professor of English at Wayne State University. She is the author of The Fabrication of American Literature: Fraudulence and Antebellum Print Culture (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012). r adiclani clytus is an assistant professor of English at Tufts University. He is finishing a book entitled Envisioning Slavery: American Abolitionism and the Primacy of the Visual. jeannine marie delombard is an associate professor of English at the University of Toronto, where she is also affiliated with the Collaborative Program in Book History and Print Culture. Her most recent book is In the Shadow of the Gallows: Race, Crime, and American Civic Identity (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012). 406 contributors elizabeth maddock dillon is an associate professor in the Department of English at Northeastern University. Her book The Gender of Freedom : Fictions of Liberalism and the Literary Public Sphere (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2004) won the Heyman Prize for Outstanding Publication in the humanities at Yale University. eric gardner is a professor of English at Saginaw Valley State University and the author most recently of Unexpected Places: Relocating NineteenthCentury African American Literature (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2009), which won the inaugural EBSCOhost / Research Society for American Periodicals Book Prize in 2010. susan gillman is a professor of literature at the University of California Santa Cruz. Her book Blood Talk: American Race Melodrama and the Culture of the Occult (Chicago, 2003) received honorable mention for the MLA’s William Sanders Scarborough Award. daniel hack is an associate professor at the University of Michigan and the author of The Material Interests of the Victorian Novel (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2005). His 2008 essay “Close Reading at a Distance : The African Americanization of Bleak House” received honorable mention for the Donald Gray Prize from the North American Victorian Studies Association. holly jackson is an assistant professor at Skidmore College. Her essays have appeared in PMLA, ESQ, and the New England Quarterly. meredith l. mcgill is an associate professor of English and director of the Center of Cultural Analysis at Rutgers University. Her publications include American Literature and the Culture of Reprinting, 1834–1853 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003). lloyd pr att is a university lecturer in American literature at Linacre College , Oxford. His publications include Archives of American Time: Literature and Modernity in the Nineteenth Century (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010). contributors 407 joseph rezek is an assistant professor at Boston University. His essay “The Orations on the Abolition of the Slave Trade and the Uses of Print in the Early Black Atlantic” won the Richard Beale Davis Prize for best essay in Early American Literature, 2009–10. dalila scruggs is the Mellon Curatorial Fellow at the Williams College Museum of Art. She completed a Ph.D. in the History of Art and Architecture Department at Harvard University. Her dissertation studies representations of African Americans in the context of Liberian colonization. jonathan senchyne is an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His contribution to the present volume was awarded Cornell University’s Moses Coit Tyler Prize for the best graduate student essay in American literature, history, and folklore in 2011. derrick r. spires is a doctoral candidate in the Department of English at Vanderbilt University. His dissertation is titled “Black Theories of Citizenship in the Early U.S., 1793–1860.” jordan alex ander stein is an assistant professor of English at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He is completing a study of print and the novel, tentatively titled The People Are Clarissa. This page intentionally...