In Search Of Hannah Crafts Critical Essays On The Bondwoman's Narrative

William Andrews is the E. Maynard Adams Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of The Literary Career of Charles W. Chesnutt (1980) and To Tell a Free Story: The First Century of Afro-American Autobiography, 1760-1865 (1986). He has edited or co-edited thirty volumes, including The Norton Anthology of African American Literature (1997); The Oxford Companion to African American Literature (1997); The Literature of the American South: A Norton Anthology (1997); and Slave Narrative (2000), a volume in the Library of America. Nina Baym is Swanlund Endowed Chair and Center for Advanced Study Professor of English, as well as Jubilee Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is General Editor of The Norton Anthology of American Literature and has published many books and articles on American literary topics, including three books about nineteenth-century American women writers. In 2000 she received the Hubbell Medal for lifetime achievement in American literary studies from the American Literature Section of the Modern Language Association. Ira Berlin is professor of history at the University of Maryland and the author of "Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America." Dickson D. Bruce, Jr., is professor of history at the University of California. His books include Violence and Culture in the Antebellum South (1979); Black American Writing from the Nadir: The Evolution of a Literary Tradition, 1877-1915 (1989); and The Origins of African American Literature, 1680-1865 (2001). Lawrence Buell is Professor and John P. Marquand Professor of English, and Chair, Department of English at Harvard University. Professor Buell teaches courses in the history of American literature and culture and has a particular interest in environmental(ist) discourses, issues of cultural nationalism, and comparatist approaches to American literary study including transatlantic and postcolonial models of inquiry. He is the author of Literary Transcendentalism (1973), New England Literary Culture (1986), The Environmental Imagination: Thoreau, Nature Writing, and the Formation of American Culture (1995), and Writing for an Endangered World Literature, Culture, and Environment in the United States and Beyond (2001). Rudolph P. Byrd is Associate Professor of American Studies and Director of the Program of African American Studies at Emory University. He is author of Jean Toomer's Years with Gurdjieff and editor of I Call Myself an Artist: Writings by and about Charles Johnson. Christopher Castiglia is Associate Professor of English at Loyola University in Chicago. He is the author of Bound and Determined: Captivity, Culture-Crossing, and White Womanhood from Mary Rowlandson to Patty Hearst (University of Chicago Press, 1996) and Interior States: the Romance of Reform and the Inner Life of a Nation (forthcoming, Duke University Press), as well as numerous articles on queer culture and on antebellum race and democracy. Russ Castronovo is Jean Wall Bennett Professor of English and American Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author of Fathering the Nation: American Genealogies of Slavery and Freedom (1995) and Necro Citizenship: Death, Eroticism, and the Public Sphere in the Nineteenth-Century United States (2001), and co-editor with Dana Nelson of Materializing Democracy: Toward a Revitalized Cultural Politics (2002). Ann Fabian teaches American Studies and History at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. She has written on gambling and personal narratives in the United States in the nineteenth century and is currently working on a book on the collection and display of human skulls. Shelley Fisher Fishkin is (as of September 1, 2003) Professor of English and Chair of the Department of American Studies at Stanford University. She is the author of books including Lighting Out for the Territory: Reflections on Mark Twain and American Culture; Was Huck Black: Mark Twain and African American Voices; and From Fact to Fiction: Journalism and Imaginative Writing in America. She is editor of The Oxford Mark Twain and the Oxford Historical Guide to Mark Twain and is co-editor of Listening to Silences: New Essays in Feminist Criticism; The Encyclopedia of Civil Rights in America; People of the Book: Thirty Scholars Reflect on Their Jewish Identity; and Oxford's "Race and American Culture" book series. Katherine E. Flynn has been since 1997 a Certified Genealogical Records Specialist SM. She holds a B.A. in chemistry and philosophy from the College of St. Catherine, an M.A. in organic chemistry from Yale University, a Ph.D. from Northwestern University in synthetic organic chemistry and was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Cambridge. William Gleason is associate professor of English at Princeton University and the author of The Leisure Ethic: Work and Play in American Literature, 1840-1940 (Stanford, 1999). He is currently working on a study of architecture, race, and American literature. Catherine Keyser is pursuing her Ph.D. at Harvard University in the Department of English and American Literature and Language. She is a Jacob K. Javitz Fellow and a 2001-2002 Honorary Mellon Fellow. Robert S. Levine is Professor of English and Director of Graduate Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park. He has published six books, including Conspiracy and Romance (Cambridge University Press, 1989); Martin Delany, Frederick Douglass, and the Politics of Representative Identity (University of North Carolina Press, 1997); and Martin R. Delany: A Documentary Reader (University of North Carolina Press, 2003). Hilary Mantel's novels include A Place of Greater Safety, An Experiment in Love and The Giant O'Brien. Joe Nickell is author of the "Investigative Files" column for Skeptical Inquirer magazine. He received a Ph.D. from the University of Kentucky in 1987 and is the author of numerous books, including Inquest of the Shroud of Turin and Secrets of the Super-natural. He is Associate Dean of the Center for Inquiry Institute. Thomas C. Parramore is a professor emeritus at Meredith College, Raleigh, North Carolina. He is the author of Southampton County, Virginia, 1650-1978 (University of Press of Virginia, 1978); The First Four Centuries (University Press of Virginia, 1994); and numerous other books and articles on Southern, especially North Carolina, history. He has also written a critique of Nat Turner's Rebellion for a critical volume on the subject to be published in 2003 by Oxford University Press. Augusta Rohrbach has held a joint appointment with the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard University after being a Bunting Fellow the previous year. Her published essays have appeared in International Studies in Philosophy, Callaloo, New England Quarterly, and American Literature. Her book, "Truth Stranger Than Fiction": Race, Realism, and the U.S. Literary Marketplace, was published by Palgrave (2002). She received her doctorate from Columbia University in 1994 and taught at Oberlin College for four years. She is currently working on "Ar'n't I a Writer? Trading on Race and Gender and the Literary Marketplace," a full-length study of women writers. Hollis Robbins is the Director of the Black Periodic Literature Project at the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard University. She received her Ph.D. in English and American Literature from Princeton in June 2003. She received a master's degree in Public Policy from Harvard University in 1990. She is the author of numerous articles, including "The Emperor's New Critique" (New Literary History, forthcoming). Karen Sanchez-Eppler is Professor of American Studies and English at Amherst College. She is the author of Touching Liberty: Abolition, Feminism, and the Politics of the Body (1993), and of the forthcoming Rearing a Nation: Childhood and Social Order in Nineteenth-Century America. Bryan Sinche is a doctoral candidate in early American literature and American studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; he also holds a B.A in English from the University of Michigan. Sinche compiled the catalog of John Hill Wheeler's library that was included in the first edition of The Bondwoman's Narrative. He is the managing editor of a/b: Auto/Biography Studies. John Stauffer is Associate Professor of American Civilization and English at Harvard University. His book, The Black Hearts of Men (Harvard University Press, February 2002), won the 1999 Ralph Henry Gabriel Prize for the best dissertation in American Studies from the American Studies Association and was co-winner of the 2002 Frederick Douglass Book Prize. Zoe Trodd has published on black studies and American literature and has won numerous awards for her writing and teaching. She recently co-edited John Brown and the Coming of the Civil War (2003) with John Stauffer. She graduated with first-class honors from Newnham College, Cambridge University, England, where she founded and edited a nationally recognized newspaper. She was a Kennedy Scholar at Harvard University (2001-2002) and is now a graduate fellow in Harvard's History of American Civilization department. She lives in England and Cambridge, Massachusetts. Priscilla Wald is Associate Professor of English and Women's Studies at Duke University and Associate Editor of American Literature. She is the author of Constituting Americans: Cultural Anxiety and Narrative Form. Jean Fagan Yellin is the author of Harriet Jacobs: A Life (forthcoming, Basic); Women and Sisters: The Anti-Slavery Feminists in American Culture (1990); and The Intricate Knot: Black Figures in American Literature, 1776-1863 (1972). Jean Fagan Yellin is the editor of an edition of Uncle Tom's Cabin (1998). She is perhaps best known for her editions of Harriet Jacobs's 1861 slave narrative Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written by Herself (1987, 2000).Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. is the author of 'In Search Of Hannah Crafts Critical Essays On The Bondwoman's Narrative', published 2004 under ISBN 9780465027088 and ISBN 0465027083.