Elif S. Armbruster is Associate Professor of English at Suffolk University in Boston, where she teaches courses in American literature, American studies, and women and gender studies. She specializes in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century women's literature with emphases on material culture and architecture, realism, immigrant literature, and memoir and autobiography. She is the author of Domestic Biographies: Stowe, Howells, James, and Wharton at Home and has published (or has in progress) essays on Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Anchee Min.
Renate von Bardeleben, Professor of American Studies at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, is the author or editor of twelve books, among them three books on Theodore Dreiser. She is currently working on an edition of Dreiser's European diaries.
Phillip Barrish is the Tony Hilfer Professor of American and British Literature at the University of Texas, Austin, where he teaches courses in literature and medicine and American literature. His books include American Literary Realism, Critical Theory, and Intellectual Prestige, 1880-1995; White Liberal Identity, Literary Pedagogy, and Classic American Realism; and The Cambridge Introduction to American Literary Realism. Barrish is currently completing a book titled American Literature and the Political Economy of Health Care.
Jonathan N. Barron is Professor of English at the University of Southern Mississippi. He is the author most recently of How Robert Frost Made Realism Matter. He also edits the Robert Frost Review and directs the Robert Frost Society.
Peter Betjemann is Associate Professor of English and Director of the School of Writing, Literature, and Film at Oregon State University. He is the author of Talking Shop: The Language of Craft in an Age of Consumption. His book in progress, The Critical Canvas: Antebellum Narrative Painting and the Radicalization of U.S. Literature, posits that literary paintings before the Civil War excavated and expanded the sociopolitical nuance of their source texts in highly sophisticated ways, revealing painters as some of the most astute and piercing readers of their day.
John Bird is Emeritus Professor of English at Winthrop University. He is the author of Mark Twain and Metaphor and is a past president of the Mark Twain Circle of America. He is coeditor of the Mark Twain and His Circle series for the University of Missouri Press.
Astrid Böger is Professor of North American Literature and Culture at Hamburg University. Her books include Documenting Lives: James Agee's and Walker Evans's Let Us Now Praise Famous Men; People's Lives, Public Images: The New Deal Documentary Aesthetic; and Envisioning the Nation: The Early American World's Fairs and the Formation of Culture. In addition to several coedited volumes on gender studies and transnational visual culture, she has published numerous scholarly articles on diverse topics in contemporary US culture.
Nathaniel Cadle is Associate Professor of English at Florida International University. He is the author of The Mediating Nation: Late American Realism, Globalization, and the Progressive State, winner of the 2015 SAMLA Studies Book Award.
Donna M. Campbell is Professor of English at Washington State University. Her most recent book is Bitter Tastes: Literary Naturalism and Early Cinema in American Women's Writing. Her current projects include a critical edition of Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth in the thirty-volume Oxford University Press edition of The Complete Works of Edith Wharton, for which she is associate editor and digital project coeditor with Carol Singley.
Patrick Chura is Professor of English at the University of Akron, where he teaches courses in American literature and culture studies. He is the author of two books and has published articles on a variety of literary and historical topics. His second book, Thoreau the Land Surveyor, won the College English Association of Ohio's Dasher Award for outstanding literary scholarship. His 2012 edition of Ernest Poole's The Harbor was published in the Penguin Classics series.
Jean Lee Cole is Professor of English at Loyola University Maryland. She is the author of The Literary Voices of Winnifred Eaton: Redefining Ethnicity and Authenticity and has published widely on periodicals and US visual culture of the long nineteenth century. She is also the editor of Freedom's Witness: The Civil War Correspondence of Henry McNeal Turner and coeditor of Zora Neale Hurston: Collected Plays with Charles Mitchell; and A Japanese Nightingale and Madame Butterfly: Two Orientalist Texts with Maureen Honey.
Melanie Dawson is the Wakefield Distinguished Associate Professor of English at the College of William and Mary and the author of Emotional Reinventions: Realist-Era Representations beyond Sympathy and various articles on late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century literature. She is completing a book on twentieth-century approaches to age and aging in the works of Edith Wharton and other modern US writers.
Anita Duneer is Associate Professor of English at Rhode Island College, where she teaches American and postcolonial literatures. She is at work on a book about Jack London and the sea, which merges interests in maritime literature and literary naturalism. Her articles on literary seafaring have appeared in American Literary Realism, Studies in American Naturalism, ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance, and the MLA's Approaches to Teaching the Works of Jack London.
Brad Evans is Associate Professor of English at Rutgers University. He is the author of Before Cultures: The Ethnographic Imagination in American Literature. He was a lead project coordinator for the restoration of the 1914 silent feature film by Edward Curtis, In the Land of the Head Hunters, and coedited a companion volume, Return to the Land of the Head Hunters: Edward S. Curtis, the Kwakwaka'wakw, and the Making of Modern Cinema. His most recent book is Ephemeral Bibelots: How an International Fad Buried American Modernism.
Sophia Forster is Associate Professor of English at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo. Her articles on nineteenth-century American literature have appeared in Modern Fiction Studies, ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance, and Studies in the Novel.
Ramón J. Guerra is Associate Professor of English and Latino/Latin American Studies at the University of Nebraska, Omaha. His research focuses on the placement of Chicano and Latino literature within the larger named American literature, particularly in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. His publications include works on Latinos and the American dream, the early twentieth-century Mexican American writer and scholar Américo Paredes, and contemporary Latina writer Sandra Cisneros.
Lori Harrison-Kahan is Associate Professor of the Practice of English at Boston College and book review editor of MELUS. She is the author of The White Negress: Literature, Minstrelsy, and the Black-Jewish Imaginary and the editor of two forthcoming books, The Superwoman and Other Writings by Miriam Michelson and a reissue of Emma Wolf's Heirs of Yesterday (coedited with Barbara Cantalupo). Her current project is titled West of the Ghetto: Pioneering Women Writers, Progressive Era San Francisco, and Jewish Literary History.
Andrew Hebard is Associate Professor of English at Miami University of Ohio. He has published articles in American Quarterly; Law, Culture, and the Humanities; African American Review, and Arizona Quarterly. His book, The Poetics of Sovereignty in American Literature, 1885-1910, examines how American literature conventionalized legal forms of sovereignty and administration. His current book project examines the relationship between literary aesthetics, scientific ecology, and the Progressive Era state.
Eileen J. Herrmann is a modern American drama scholar. She coedited, with Robert Dowling Jr., Eugene O'Neill and His Early Contemporaries. Her articles appear in the Critical Companion to Eugene O'Neill, the Eugene O'Neill Review, Theatre History Studies, and the Journal of American Studies. She serves on the boards of the Eugene O'Neill Society and the Eugene O'Neill Foundation.
Charles Johanningsmeier is Professor of English and Wardle Chair of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Nebraska, Omaha. He is the author of Fiction and the American Literary Marketplace: The Role of Newspaper Syndicates, 1860-1900, as well as numerous articles examining the importance of periodical publication to the careers of realists and naturalists. He is currently working on a new anthology of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American short fiction.
Julia H. Lee is Associate Professor of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Irvine. She is the author of Interracial Encounters: Reciprocal Representations in African and Asian American Literatures, 1896-1937 and Understanding Maxine Hong Kingston. Her current work in progress is The Racial Railroad, which explores the prevalence of the train as a setting for narratives of racial formation and conflict in American culture.
Mark J. Noonan is Professor of English at New York City College of Technology. He is the author of Reading the Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine: American Literature and Culture, 1870-1893; Brooklyn Tides: The Fall and Rise of a Global Borough; and The Place Where We Dwell: Reading and Writing about New York City. His latest book project is titled City of Print: New York and the Periodical Press, from the Colonial Era to the Digital Age.
Leslie Petty is Associate Professor and Chair of the English Department at Rhodes College in Memphis. Her research lies at the intersection of literature and first-wave feminism. She is the author of Romancing the Vote: Feminist Activism in American Literature, 1860-1920, and is currently researching the transnational underpinnings of Elizabeth Cady Stanton's late work.
Augusta Rohrbach is Director of Strategic Initiatives at Tufts University and the author of Truth Stranger Than Fiction: Race, Realism, and the U.S. Literary Market Place and Thinking outside the Book.
Klaus H. Schmidt teaches American literature and translation studies at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz in Germersheim. His twenty-five book publications include Revisionist Approaches to American Realism and Naturalism (coeditor); American Multiculturalism and Ethnic Survival (coeditor); Engaging Dreiser (editor); and a critical edition of Theodore Dreiser's A Traveler at Forty (with Lee Ann Draud and James L. W. West III, textual editor).
Lee Schweninger is Professor of English at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. His recent book publications include Imagic Moments: North American Indigenous Film; Listening to the Land: American Indian Literary Responses to the Landscape; and The First We Can Remember: Colorado Pioneer Women Tell Their Stories. He has also published essays or book chapters on American Indian writers and filmmakers, such as Leslie Marmon Silko, Sherman Alexie, N. Scott Momaday, Louise Erdrich, Randy Redroad, and Sarah Vowell.
Jolie A. Sheffer is Associate Professor of English and American Culture Studies at Bowling Green State University. She is the author of The Romance of Race: Incest, Miscegenation, and Multiculturalism in the United States, 1880-1930, as well as articles in journals such as College Literature, the Journal of Asian American Studies, MELUS, and Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture. She is currently at work on a project on novelist Karen Tei Yamashita.
Adam Sonstegard has investigated visual-arts and graphic-arts interactions with American literary realism and modernism in fifteen academic articles to date and in Artistic Liberties, American Literary Realism and Graphic Illustration, 1880-1905. He is Professor of English at Cleveland State University, a graduate of Washington University in St. Louis, and a former lecturer in the university writing program at the University of California Davis.
Mark Storey is Associate Professor of English at the University of Warwick. He is the author of Rural Fictions, Urban Realities: A Geography of Gilded Age American Literature and has published other work on nineteenth-century American literature in, among other journals, Modernism/modernity, Nineteenth-Century Literature, and The Edinburgh Companion to American Letters and Letter-Writing. He is writing a book about the uses of ancient Rome in the cultures of US imperialism.
Graham Thompson is Professor of American Literature at the University of Nottingham. He is the author of four books: Herman Melville: Among the Magazines; American Culture in the 1980s; The Business of America: The Literary and Critical Production of a Post-War Nation; and Male Sexuality under Surveillance: The Office in American Literature. He has published essays in American Literature, Modern Fiction Studies, the Journal of American Studies, American Periodicals, Leviathan, and American Literary Realism.
Gary Totten is Professor and Chair of the Department of English at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and editor of MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States. He is the author of African American Travel Narratives from Abroad: Mobility and Cultural Work in the Age of Jim Crow, coeditor of Politics, Identity, and Mobility in Travel Writing, and editor of Memorial Boxes and Guarded Interiors: Edith Wharton and Material Culture.
Caren J. Town is Professor of English at Georgia Southern University. She has published monographs on Southern women writers' novels of development, censorship in young adult fiction, and LGBTQ adolescent literature. Her areas of specialization include adolescent fiction, American realism, and the contemporary novel. In addition, she has published articles on Edith Wharton, Theodore Dreiser, Sinclair Lewis, Anne Tyler, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and contemporary female mystery writers.
Yuping Wang is Professor of English and Director of the Institute for American Studies at Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China. She is the author of Urban Space and Cultural Imagination: Representation of Working Girls in Theodore Dreiser's Novels. Her articles have appeared in major academic journals in China, such as Foreign Literature Studies, Contemporary Foreign Literature, and English and American Literary Studies. She has also published for Chinese presses English translations of Essays of Elia and Foucault: A Very Short Introduction.
Nicolas S. Witschi is Chair of the Department of English at Western Michigan University. He is the author of Traces of Gold: California's Natural Resources and the Claim to Realism in Western American Literature, a monograph on Alonzo "Old Block" Delano, and articles and essays on Mary Austin, John Muir, Sinclair Lewis, Henry James, Raymond Chandler, and Mary Hallock Foote. He is also the editor of A Companion to the Literature and Culture of the American West and the coeditor with Melody Graulich of Dirty Words in Deadwood: Literature and the Postwestern.
Christine A. Wooley is Associate Professor of English at St. Mary's College of Maryland, where she also serves as Associate Dean of Curriculum. Her current research focuses on postbellum African American literature and, more broadly, representations of money and other financial forms in nineteenth-century American literature. Her essays have appeared in the African American Review, Mississippi Quarterly, and two recent collections: Haunting Realities: Naturalist Gothic and American Realism and The Palgrave Handbook of the Southern Gothic.
