Professor emerita in the Department of English, University of Maryland, Carla Peterson has enjoyed a truly distinguished career studying nineteenth-century African American literature, history, and culture, having published many highly regarded articles. Her books, “Doers of the Word”: African-American Women…

Autumn Womack took her Ph.D from Columbia and is now an Assistant Professor of English and African American Studies at Princeton University where she specializes in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century African American literary and visual culture. Her first monograph,…

Michael Cohen (UCLA) is an associate professor in the Department of English at UCLA. He teaches and studies the literature of the transatlantic nineteenth century, especially poetry between roughly the 1790s and the 1890s, in the US, but also across…

Michael LeMahieu (Clemson) is an Associate Professor English and a coeditor of Contemporary Literature. His Fictions of Fact and Value: The Erasure of Logical Positivism in American Literature, 1945-1975 contends that the philosophy of logical positivism, considered the antithesis of…

Judith Madera (Wake Forest) is an Associate professor in English Department and a Research Fellow in Environmental Studies. Her first book, Black Atlas: Geography and Flow in Nineteenth-Century African American Literature, focuses attention on the dynamic relationship between place and…

Victoria Olwell (University of Virginia) is Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the English Department. Her first book, The Genius of Democracy: Fictions of Gender and Citizenship in the United States, 1860-1945, examines how ideas of genius provided…

Howard Horwitz teaches at the University of Utah, where he is professor of English. In both his teaching and research, he examines the relations between literary form and conception of social interaction and social order. He has written many articles…

Katherine Adams is Associate Professor and Kimmerling Chair in English at Tulane University. She is author of Owning Up: Privacy, Property, and Belonging in US Women’s Life Writing (2009); editor of “US Women Writing Race,” a 2009 special issue of TSWL; and co-editor…

Elizabeth Hewitt’s work concentrates on pre-1900 American and African American literature. Along with her book on correspondence and American political theory, Correspondence and American Literature, 1770-1865(2005), she has also published essays on Emily Dickinson, Herman Melville, Charles Chestnutt, and antebellum business…

Jarvis C. McInnis is an interdisciplinary scholar of African American and African Diaspora literature and culture. He is currently working on his first book, tentatively titled, “The Afterlives of the Plantation: Aesthetics, Labor, and Diaspora in the Global Black South.”…