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Con t r i bu tor s Kimberly J. Banks is an assistant professor of English at the University of Missouri– Kansas City teaching courses in African American literature and twentieth-century American literature. Among her recent scholarship, she has completed a book, Framing Diasporic Memory: Walrond, Hurston, McKay, and Dunham Negotiating Nostalgia, and published an article on representations of lynching in African American literature in African American Review. Jennifer Cognard-Black is an assistant professor of English at St. Mary’s College of Maryland , where she teaches Anglo-American literature and fiction writing. Her critical work has appeared in American Literary Realism, the National Women’s Studies Association Journal, and Popular Culture Review. She is the author of Narrative in the Professional Age: Transatlantic Readings of Harriet Beecher Stowe, George Eliot, and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps and a writing textbook, Advancing Rhetoric. She is a Pushcart Prize nominee whose short stories have appeared in numerous journals and magazines. Frances Smith Foster, Charles Howard Candler Professor of English and women’s studies at Emory University, has edited two volumes of Frances E. W. Harper’s works: A Brighter Coming Day: A Frances E. W. Harper Reader and Minnie’s Sacrifice, Sowing and Reaping, Trial and Triumph: Three Rediscovered Novels by Frances E. W. Harper. She has published extensively on Harper and nineteenth-century African American women writers. George V. Griffith’s published work on Eliot and America has included studies of Eliot ’s reception in the American press, adaptations of her works on the American stage, and film adaptations of Eliot’s novels. His transcription of the Phelps correspondence originally appeared in Legacy. He is professor of English at Chadron State College in Nebraska. Sharon M. Harris, Lorraine Sherley Professor of Literature at Texas Christian University , is the author of Executing Race: Eighteenth-Century American Women’s Narratives of Race, Society, and the Law and Rebecca Harding Davis and American Realism and is the editor of such texts as Blue Pencils, Hidden Hands: Women Editing Periodicals, 820– 900 and Women’s Early American Historical Narratives. Former editor of Legacy, Harris was founding president of the Society for the Study of American Women Writers. 236 | Contributors Linda K. Hughes, Addie Levy Professor of Literature at Texas Christian University, works on Victorian periodicals in the context of gender and publishing history. Her recent work includes Graham R.: Rosamund Marriott Watson, Woman of Letters, Elizabeth Gaskell’s Shorter Tales, 859–865, and articles on fin-de-siècle figures in SEL: Studies in English Literature and Victorian Literature and Culture. She recently guest-edited a double issue of Victorian Poetry entitled “Whither Victorian Poetry?” Hughes is also the author of The Manyfacèd Glass: Tennyson’s Dramatic Monologues and coauthor of The Victorian Serial and Victorian Publishing and Mrs. Gaskell’s Work. Patricia Lorimer Lundberg is the founding executive director of the Center for Cultural Discovery and Learning at Indiana University Northwest. She is also a member of the Indiana University Graduate Faculty and has served in administrative posts such as interim associate vice chancellor for academic affairs. Among her recent publications is a biography of Lucas Malet: An Inward Necessity: The Writer’s Life of Lucas Malet. She is the recipient of several grants and awards, has postdoctoral training in leadership and diversity, and is a member of the President’s Council of St. Scholastica Academy. Linda Peterson, Niel Gray, Jr. Professor of English at Yale University, is the author of Victorian Autobiography and Traditions of Victorian Women’s Autobiography: The Poetics and Politics of Life Writing as well as the editor of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights and Harriet Martineau’s Autobiography. She is currently working on a study of nineteenthcentury women’s entry into the profession of letters. Jennifer Phegley is an assistant professor of nineteenth-century literature at the University of Missouri–Kansas City. She is the author of Educating the Proper Woman Reader: Victorian Family Literary Magazines and the Cultural Health of the Nation and coeditor of Reading Women: Literary Figures and Cultural Icons from the Victorian Age to the Present. Kristin A. Risley is assistant professor of English at the University of Wisconsin–Stout, where she teaches literature and writing. A scholar and translator of NorwegianAmerican literature, her research has been supported by awards from the AmericanScandinavian Foundation and the Norwegian-American Historical Association. She first became interested in Palma Pederson while completing her doctoral thesis, “Vikings of the Midwest: Place, Culture, and Ethnicity in...

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