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Sharon Cameron is Kenan Professor of English, emerita, at Johns Hopkins University. Her books include Lyric Time: Dickinson and the Limits of Genre, Thinking in Henry James, and The Bond of the Furthest Apart: Essays on Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Kafka, and Robert Bresson.
Matthew Crow is associate professor of history at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, New York. In addition to several articles and essays, he is the author of Thomas Jefferson, Legal History, and the Art of Recollection (Cambridge University Press, 2017) and is currently working on a second book about law, allegory, and narratives of oceanic history in the writings of Herman Melville.
Sophia Forster is professor of English at California State University in San Luis Obispo. Her work has appeared most recently in The Oxford Handbook of American Literary Realism (Oxford University Press, 2019). Her current research focuses on the ways that gendered and racialized identities and experiences shaped how American writers criticized the theory and practice of industrial capitalism over the course of its explosive growth in the nineteenth century.
Yoshiaki Furui is associate professor of English at Rikkyo University, Tokyo. He is the author of Modernizing Solitude: The Networked Individual in Nineteenth-Century American Literature (University of Alabama Press, 2019). His work has appeared in Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies, Journal of American Studies, Criticism, Texas Studies in Literature and Language, and other venues.
Emily Gowen is a PhD candidate in English and American literature at Boston University. She is currently a dissertation fellow at the Boston University Center for the Humanities, and has held past fellowships at the American Antiquarian Society, The McNeil Center for Early American Studies, and the Library Company of Philadelphia. Her work explores the relationship between the rise of the novel, the history of print, and the problem of inequality in the nineteenth-century United States.
Tsuyoshi Ishihara is professor of comparative literature at the University of Tokyo. He is the author of Mark Twain in Japan: The Cultural Reception of an American Icon (University of Missouri Press, 2005). His works have appeared in Mark Twain Journal, Mark Twain Studies, the Japanese Journal of American Studies, and others.
Isaac Kolding is a PhD student at the State University of New York at Buffalo.
Leslie Leonard is a PhD candidate at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Leslie is currently using an Andrew W. Mellon short-term research fellowship at the Massachusetts Historical Society in order to produce scholarship on responsibility and duty in the American nineteenth century.
Rachel S. Ravina is a PhD candidate at Boston University with a BA from Smith College. Her research interests are in nineteenth-century American and transatlantic literature, philosophy, identity studies, and peace and conflict studies. Her current research focuses on transatlantic peace reform, its philosophical debates, and their presence in American fiction.
Tsutomu Takahashi is a professor of English at Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan, where he teaches American literature and environmental studies. His publications include Concord Jeremiad: Thoreau's Rhetoric of the Age (Kinseido, 2012) and The Grammar of the Wild: Thoreau, Muir, and Gary Snyder (Kyushu University Press, forthcoming).
Takayuki Tatsumi, professor emeritus of Keio University (Tokyo), has long specialized in American literature and critical theory, publishing articles in PMLA, Critique, Narrative, Review of Contemporary Fiction, Extrapolation, Mechademia, and elsewhere on subjects ranging from American Renaissance to post-cyberpunk fiction and film. His major works include Young Americans in Literature: The Post-Romantic Turn in the Age of Poe, Hawthorne and Melville (Sairyusha, 2018) and Full Metal Apache: Transactions between Cyberpunk Japan and Avant-Pop America (Duke University Press, 2006), which won the 2010 IAFA Distinguished Scholarship Award.
Brook Thomas cross-examines legal and literary history, most recently during the long Reconstruction. His two latest books are Civic Myths: A Law and Literaure Approach to Citizenship, and The Literature of Reconstruction: Not in Plain Black and White, winner of the C. Hugh Holman Award. Representative recent essays include "Reconstruction Matters in the Revival of Civil War Literature," "The Galaxy, National Literature, and Reconstruction," "The Unfinished Task of Grounding Reconstruction's Promise," and "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Reconstruction."
Hiroko Uno is professor emerita of Kobe College, Nishinomiya, Japan. She is...
