America's Darwin: Darwinian Theory and U.S. Culture

Contributors

389 Carol Anelli is professor of entomology at the Ohio State University. She is the author of several published articles on the history of entomology and on Benjamin Walsh in particular . She has presented her research at numerous symposia of the Entomological Society of America and since 1997 has served as an editor for the “Heritage” section of the society’s flagship journal, American Entomologist. Lilian Carswell holds a PhD in literature from Columbia University and a master’s degree in marine mammal biology from the University of California, Santa Cruz. While completing her doctoral dissertation, she began working as a biologist for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. She currently serves as a southern sea otter recovery and marine conservation coordinator for the usfws. Melanie Dawson is an assistant professor at the College of William and Mary. She is a coeditor of The American 1890s and the author of Laboring to Play: Home Entertainment and the Spectacle of Middle-Class Cultural Life and articles on the works of Wharton, James, Howells, and Ruiz de Burton. Lately, she has been at work on a manuscript that explores the intersections of realism and emotional representation and on a scholarly edition of Gertrude Atherton’s 1923 rejuvenation novel, Black Oxen. Gregory Eiselein is professor of English and the Coffman University Distinguished Teaching Scholar at Kansas State University. He is the author of Literature and Humanitarian Reform in the Civil War Era and numerous articles on American literature and culture. He is also the editor of several books, including the Norton critical edition of LittleWomen, The Louisa May Alcott Encyclopedia, Adah Isaacs Menken: Infelicia and OtherWritings, and Emma Lazarus: Selected Poems and Other Writings. His current research focuses on William James and the intersections of literature, emotion, and the arts in nineteenth-century America. Gillian Feeley-Harnik is the Kathleen Gough Collegiate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her research in the history and anthropology of the Bible and biblically inspired religions in the Jewish and Christian diasporas has been published in many articles and books, including A Green Estate: Restoring Independence in Madagascar, The Lord’s Table: The Meaning of Food in Early Judaism and Christianity, and two books in progress: comparative studies of Charles Darwin and Lewis Henry Morgan, including their kin and coworkers. c o n t r i b u t o r s 390 Contributors Lydia Fisher is a visiting assistant professor of English at Portland State University. She is completing a book project, Domesticating the Nation: Science and Home Culture in Nineteenth-Century America. Her articles related to this project include “The Savage in the House” and “Science, Sentiment, and the Domesticated Slave.” She has been awarded research fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Association of University Women, and the Northeast Modern Language Association. Tina Gianquitto is associate professor of literature at the Colorado School of Mines. She works primarily at the intersections of literature and science and has published “Good Observers of Nature”: American Women and the Scientific Study of the Natural World, 1820–1885 and essays on Mary Treat and on Jack London and evolutionary theory. She has also written on the British suffragist Lydia Becker and her correspondence with Charles Darwin and has received fellowships from the Huntington Library, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the American Council of Learned Societies in support of a project on Darwin’s female correspondents and social reform. Kimberly A. Hamlin is assistant professor of American studies and history at Miami University , Ohio. She has published From Eve to Evolution: Darwin, Science, and Women’s Rights in Gilded Age America and articles on gender in the age of Darwin and on the gender politics of early Miss America pageants. She holds a PhD in American studies from the University of Texas, Austin. Karen Lentz Madison received her PhD from the University of Arkansas. She is a past president of the College English Association and a specialist in Victorian and transatlantic literature. R. D. Madison is a U.S. Naval Academy professor emeritus of English. He is the associate general editor of the Northwestern-Newberry edition of the writings of Herman Melville and has published on the author. He has also edited works by James Fenimore Cooper. He received his PhD from Northwestern University and currently teaches at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Nicole M. Merola is associate professor of ecocriticism and American...