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Jill Bergman is an associate professor of English at the University of Montana. She has published on William Faulkner, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and Pauline Hopkins, and is currently at work on a book on motherhood and nationalism in the work of Pauline Hopkins. Debra Bernardi is an associate professor in the Department of Languages and Literature at Carroll College in Helena, Montana. Her work on domestic and gothic ¤ction by American women has appeared in several publications, including Separate Spheres No More, edited by Monika Elbert, and the journal Legacy. She also writes movie and television reviews for the Helena paper Queen City News. Sarah E. Chinn teaches American literature at Hunter College, CUNY. This essay is adapted from her book in progress, New Americans, New Identities: The Children of Immigrants and the Rede¤nition of Adolescence , 1890–1925. She is also the author of Technology and the Logic of American Racism: A Cultural History of the Body as Evidence (2000). Monika Elbert, Associate Editor of the Nathaniel Hawthorne Review, is Professor of English at Montclair State University. She has published widely on Hawthorne as well as on other nineteenth-century American writers. Her recent work includes essays on Hawthorne and the feminiContributors zation of history and on Catharine Beecher’s in®uence on Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Lori Merish teaches in the English Department at Georgetown University . The author of Sentimental Materialism: Gender, Commodity Culture , and 19th-Century American Literature (Duke UP, 2000), she is completing a book titled Laboring Women and the Languages of Class: Sex, Race, and U.S. Working-class Women’s Cultures, 1830–1860. Terry D. Novak is an associate professor of English at Johnson and Wales University in Providence, Rhode Island. Her research focuses on race and gender issues in the writings of nineteenth-century American women writers. James Salazar is an assistant professor of English at Temple University. He has published in American Quarterly and has a forthcoming essay in Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies. He is currently completing a book manuscript titled Bodies of Reform: The Rhetoric of Character in Gilded-Age America. Mary Templin teaches in the University Honors Program at the University of Toledo. She is currently working on a book about women’s antebellum panic ¤ction and has published essays in Legacy and Centennial Review. Karen Tracey is an associate professor of English and Coordinator of Writing Programs at the University of Northern Iowa. She is the author of Plots and Proposals: American Women’s Fiction, 1850–1890, and a coauthor of The Craft of Argument with Readings. Whitney A. Womack is an assistant professor of English and an af¤liate in Women’s Studies and Black World Studies at Miami University, Hamilton campus. She has published articles and biographical entries on nineteenth-century British and American women writers, including Harriet Beecher Stowe, Elizabeth Gaskell, Elizabeth Siddal, and Margaret Sackville. 290 Contributors ...