Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
Dominic Mastroianni is an Assistant Professor of English at Clemson University, where he is completing a book on politics, skepticism, and mood in antebellum U.S. literature. He is the winner of the 2012 Hennig Cohen Prize, awarded by The Melville Society for his ESQ article on Pierre.
Sarah Mesle is a lecturer in writing at the University of California, Los Angeles, where she was also a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Nineteenth-Century Literature. She is revising her book manuscript, Sentimental Literature in Proslavery America.
Jason Potts teaches American literature and literary theory at St Francis Xavier University. He is the co-editor with Daniel Stout of Theory Aside (forthcoming Duke UP, 2014), a collection that tracks lines of inquiry missed during the canonization of theory.
Emilio Sauri is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Boston. His work has appeared in MLN, Twentieth-century Literature, and Mediations, and he has, with Mathias Nilges, co-edited a collection of essays titled Literary Materialisms (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014). He is currently at work on a book about the relationship between U.S. and Latin American literature, and the relationship of each to transformations in the political configuration of the global economy throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Michelle Sizemore is an Assistant Professor at the University of Kentucky. She is currently working on a book manuscript titled, “National Enchantment: Time, New Sovereignty, and the Vanishing State, 1790–1840.” This project explores how the nineteenth-century phenomenon of “enchantment” not only grants insight to alternative histories and unexpected relationships but also gives rise to extraordinary re-imaginings of sovereign agency and subjectivity. [End Page 309]
Erika Renée Williams is a Senior Scholar-in-Residence in the Institute for Liberal Arts and Interdisciplinary Studies at Emerson College. Her research and teaching interests lie in African American literature and culture, American literature, and women’s, gender, and sexuality studies. A recent contributor to Callaloo and African American Review, she is currently writing a book titled Tales from Du Bois: The Poetics of Folklore and the Politics of Cross-Caste Romance. [End Page 310]
