Brigitte Bailey

Professor of English at the University of New Hampshire.

She has research interests in 19th-century U.S. travel writing, landscape and urban writings, transatlantic literary interactions, and connections between textual and visual culture. Her monograph explores the intersection of these subjects: American Travel Literature, Gendered Aesthetics, and the Italian Tour, 1824-1862 (Edinburgh UP, 2018). She has co-edited two books—Transatlantic Women: Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers and Great Britain (with Beth Lueck and Lucinda Damon-Bach) and Margaret Fuller and Her Circles (with Katheryn Viens and Conrad Edick Wright)—and has edited a special issue of Nineteenth-Century Prose on Margaret Fuller. She has served as president of the Margaret Fuller Society. Her current project comes out of her abiding interest in antebellum print culture: a study of the ways in which writers (and artists) in newspapers and magazines in 1830-1860 mapped the new urban spaces of the nation. 

Link to the publisher’s site for my book, American Travel Literature, Gendered Aesthetics, and the Italian Tour, 1824–62 (Edinburgh University Press, 2018): https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-american-travel-literature-gendered-aesthetics-and-the-italian-tour-1824-62.html

Barrie Jean Borich

Author of Apocalypse, Darling (2018), which was short-listed for a Lambda Literary Award. PopMatters said “Apocalypse, Darling soars and seems to live as a new form altogether. It's poetry, a meditation on life as ‘the other,’ creative nonfiction, and abstract art.” Her memoir Body Geographic (2013) won a Lambda Literary Award in Memoir, and Kirkus called the book “…an elegant literary map that celebrates shifting topographies as well as human bodies in motion, not only across water and land, but also through life.” Borich’s previous book, My Lesbian Husband (2000), won the American Library Association Stonewall Book Award. She is an associate professor in the Department of English-MFA/MA in Creative Writing and Publishing Program at DePaul University in Chicago, where she edits Slag Glass City, a journal of the urban essay arts. 

Visit the Slag Glass City at www.slagglasscity.org.

Siobhan Carter-David

Associate Professor in the Department of History and affiliate faculty in Women’s and Gender Studies at Southern Connecticut State University teaching in the areas of fashion studies and African American/African Diasporic and contemporary United States histories.

Her research focuses are dress and racial uplift as presented in black print media and in the ideologies of Islamic-inspired Black Nationalist factions, as well as migration and public housing in New York City. She has worked with museum and special collection curators on projects involving various facets of African American and broad-based United States cultural histories. She is author of several journal articles, chapters in edited volumes and exhibition catalogues, and is completing her book manuscript, Issuing the Black Wardrobe: Fashion, Magazines, and Uplift Post-Soul.

Shawn Anthony Christian

Associate Professor of English and African American studies at Wheaton College (MA).

He is author of The Harlem Renaissance and the Idea of a New Negro Reader (2016). Shawn lectures and writes generally on African American literary and print cultures, especially during the Harlem Renaissance. A public humanities advocate, Shawn served on the board for the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities and is a member of the Annual Langston Hughes Community Poetry Reading Committee in Providence, RI.

https://www.umass.edu/umpress/title/harlem-renaissance-and-idea-new-negro-reader

Jacqueline Jones Compaore

Harlem native. Currently an Associate Professor of English at Francis Marion University, Jacqueline has held similar positions at Santa Clara University and Washington College.

She earned her undergraduate degree in English and African American Studies at Smith College and her Ph.D. at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Her scholarly work uses archival material to illuminate the contributions of little known figures of the Harlem Renaissance. Her forthcoming book, The Best Man: Harold Jackman and the Harlem Renaissance, is a biography that provides an intimate view of the Harlem Renaissance through the lens of the life of the man who, in addition to being Countée Cullen’s best friend, knew all of the important figures of the period and appeared in many artistic and literary works.  Jacqueline’s current project is a biography of legendary journalist Geraldyn Dismond Major aka Gerri Major who, in addition to editing Harlem’s InterState Tattler, worked for Johnson Publications for over 30 years.

 Compaore, Jacqueline Jones. "Learning through Letters: Using the Letters of Harold Jackman to Teach the Literature of the Harlem Renaissance." Pedagogy, vol. 15 no. 2, 2015, p. 366-370. Project MUSE muse.jhu.edu/article/578840.

Jones, Jacqueline C., The greatest joy in life: Geraldyn Dismond's transformative coverage of the Hamilton Lodge Ball,” WRITING THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE: REVISITING THE VISION” Williams, Emily Allen, (Editor)

Jacob Crane

Assistant professor in the English and Media Studies Department of Bentley University in Waltham, MA.

His work has appeared in the journals Atlantic Studies, Postcolonial Text, Early American Literature, African American Review, and MELUS, and he has forthcoming articles in American Quarterly and Studies in American Jewish Literature. His monograph in progress, Blood and Ink: The Barbary Archive in American Literary History, explores the long-overlooked influence of the early United States’ conflicts with North Africa on representations of race and national identity in early American literature.

Craig Eliason

Professor of Art History at the University of St. Thomas in Saint Paul, Minnesota, where he has been teaching since 2002.

Craig Eliason earned a Ph.D. in Art History from Rutgers University in 2002, concentrating on European avant-garde art and theory between the World Wars. Soon thereafter, his research agenda shifted to the history of type design. He has presented and published research on the history of type classification, including articles in Design Issues and Printing History. More recently he has been investigating both the  production and receptions of the style of types known as “modern face.” He is also a type designer: his “ambicase” types were profiled in Codex and exhibited at the Gutenberg Museum, and his forthcoming Backflip (then named Flipper) earned honorable mention at the Morisawa Type Design Competition.

Link:
http://www.typeprofessor.com

Carlos G. Espinal

Doctoral student in Spanish at the Graduate Center, CUNY and a teaching fellow at the City College of New York. His research focuses on late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Spanish-language print culture in New York City and the Caribbean.

Adam Fales

Ph.D. Student in the English department at the University of Chicago, where he studies nineteenth-century print culture, women's writing, and the history of slavery. He is also an associate editor at Chicago Review. His writing has appeared in Los Angeles Review of Books, Full Stop, Real Life, and Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies.

Recent Publication: 

“‘Copyright, 1892, By Elizabeth S. Melville’: Rethinking the Field Formation of Melville Studies,” with Jordan Alexander Stein (Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies 21.1, 2019)

Andrew Ferguson

Visiting Assistant Professor of English and Digital Studies at the University of Maryland.

His work focuses on pulp aesthetics, from the vintage ads in the newsstand magazines, to the avant-garde tics of science fiction's New Wave periodicals, to the spam and generative texts of the internet age.

Jonathan D. Fitzgerald (Fitz)

Assistant Professor of Humanities at Regis College in Massachusetts.

He teaches courses in English, Religious Studies, and Ethics primarily. He earned his Ph.D. in English Literature from Northeastern University. His research interests include the history of literary journalism, media studies, nineteenth and twentieth century American nonfiction, American Christianity, ethics, and digital humanities. Fitzgerald is currently completing work on a book that reconsiders the history of literary journalism with a focus on the role that women writers played in its nineteenth century origins. As a writer, Fitzgerald has published articles and essays in publications such as The Boston Globe, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, The Daily Beast, and others. In 2013, Bondfire Books published his first book titled Not Your Mother’s Morals: How the New Sincerity is Changing Pop Culture for the Better.

Link to “Nineteenth-century Women Writers and the Sentimental Roots of Literary Journalism” in Literary Journalism Studies: http://ialjs.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/01-Sentimental-8-27.pdf

Midori V. Green

Independent scholar specializing in U.S. visual and cultural history.  I received my PhD in art history from the University of Minnesota. 

My primary research interest is the history of female clerical workers in the United States.  I co-curated the exhibition How Secretaries Changed the 20th Century Office: Design, Image, Culture at the Goldstein Museum of Design, University of Minnesota. Publications include “Visual Fictions and the U.S. Treasury Courtesans: Images of 19th Century Female Clerks in the Illustrated Press” in the journal Belphégor (2015), see https://journals.openedition.org/belphegor/593.

Currently I am working on a book which follows the lives of a number of working women in 19th century New York who succeeded in business because they were early adopters of a new technology and a relatively new business method—the typewriter and stenography. At a time when women were increasingly pressing for participation in the public sphere, both politically and economically, these pioneering women were bold, persistent agents of change in a rapidly changing world. Their efforts were frequently documented in New York periodicals and copied by newspapers and magazines across the country, making their successes (and failures) influential on a national level.

Michele Hardesty

Associate Professor of U.S. Literatures & Cultural Studies at Hampshire College, where she is also a member of the college’s Cuba Program.

Hardesty’s current research examines U.S. literary cultures during the Cold War era, with a focus on the cultural politics of international solidarity. Her work appears in boundary 2; the edited volume Transnational Beat Generation (Palgrave, 2012), edited by Nancy Grace and Jenny Skerl; the edited volume Neocolonial Fictions of the Global Cold War (University of Iowa Press, 2019), edited by Stephen Belletto and Joseph Keith; and, with Alana Kumbier and Nora Claire Miller, in the forthcoming Transforming the Authority of the Archive in the Undergraduate Classroom (Lever Press, 2021). In addition, Hardesty’s writing has appeared in Critical Quarterly, The Monthly Review, and Archive Journal. Hardesty archives movement culture as a volunteer at Interference Archive in Brooklyn, NY, and a piece related to her co-curatorial work there is forthcoming in October 2020 in Radical History Review #138, Fascisms and Antifascisms since 1945. 

Margie Judd

Doctoral candidate in nineteenth-century American literature at the University of Nevada, Reno.

She researches new concepts of masculinity emerging through the intersection of sentimentalism, realism, and the sensational press. Her article "Gunshots, Indian Scouts & Train Robberies: Frontier Mythology in William Dean Howells’ A Hazard of New Fortunes" is forthcoming in issue 55.2 of the Western American Literature scheduled for publication in August 2020. The article offers a reading of the novel as a paradoxical harbinger of the solution to class conflict found in the western imaginary. With a background in the visual arts as a photographer, and film maker, she is currently working on the documentary film Mary Quite Contrary, exploring the work of fin de siècle writer, Mary MacLane.

Melanie Hernandez

Assistant Professor of English at Fresno State, where she teaches courses in American literature and cultural production. 

She specializes in nineteenth-century U.S. literature, with an emphasis on comparative African American and Chicanx Studies. Her ongoing research focuses on strategic racial performance, authenticity politics and social policing, and violent racial satire.  Prior to teaching, Dr. Hernandez worked in television and radio, including the Oxygen network, ABC’s The View, radio station K-EARTH 101, Saturday Night Live!, E! News Daily, The Howard Stern Show, and Eyewitness News.  She prefers teaching.

Joey S. Kim

Assistant Professor at the University of Toledo.

She researches eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British literature with a focus on Romantic literature, global Anglophone literature, postcolonial theory, and poetics. More specifically, her research interests converge at the intersection of Anglophone literature and representations of the “East”—how Orientalist subjects and environments take shape in literary, artistic, and cultural objects. Her current book project, Romanticism and the Poetics of Orientation coins the term “poetics of orientation” to describe a poetics newly aware of cultural difference as a site of aesthetic contestation and ambiguity of representation. Her subsequent book project traces early Asian North American literature through print culture and newspapers, including The Oriental; or, Tung-Ngai San-Luk and other Anglo-Chinese and Asian-American periodicals in the nineteenth century. She has published work in the Los Angeles Review of Books, The Keats-Shelley Review, The Keats-Shelley Journal, The Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies, and elsewhere. Twitter: @joeykim

Links:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09524142.2018.1520466
https://lareviewofbooks.org/short-takes/orientalism-age-covid-19/

Will Mari 

Assistant professor of media law/history at the Manship School of Mass Communication at Louisiana State University.

He has a particular research focus on transition(s) from analog to digital technologies in journalism and the impact they have on the everyday lives of people working in the news industry, including legal and social-cultural implications for news workers.

In 2019, he published a book with Routledge on the history of the computer in the American newsroom from 1960 through 1990 (A Short History of Disruptive Journalism Technologies) and is currently working on a sequel that focuses on the commercial internet and the media industry from 1990 through 2010, titled, Newsrooms and the Disruption of the Internet. He is excited to be part of the City of Print program and learn from the community of scholars there because his book is set in the physical world of New York City and other centers for American innovation during the 1990s.

You can find him tweeting (probably too much) about his work @willthewordguy 

Krystyna Michael

Assistant Professor of English at the City University of New York, Hostos Community College.

Her current book project, The Urban Domestic: Homosocial Domesticity in the Literature and Culture of 19th- and 20th-Century New York City, explores the relationship between transformations in urban planning and domestic ideology through American literature of the city. She is on the development team for Manifold, an Andrew W. Mellon funded digital publishing platform. She is also a member of the editorial collective of The Journal of Instructional Technology and Pedagogy and has published articles and reviews in The Edith Wharton Review, The Journal of American Studies, and Postmedieval. Krystyna teaches courses about American literature and writing, the digital humanities, and architecture and city space.

Jenevive Nykolak

Assistant professor of modern and contemporary art history at California State University, Los Angeles.

She is a specialist in postwar European and American art and has published articles in Art History, Art Journal, and Selva. Her research has been supported by a Chateaubriand Fellowship in Humanities and Social Sciences and the Whitney Independent Study Program. Her current book manuscript examines artistic collectivity in France around and after '68, and she is beginning a new book project on the East Village art scene of the 1980s.

“Supports/Surfaces, Scission, and the Structure of the Avant-Garde,” Art History 43, no. 1 (February 2020): 94-119.
https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8365.12466

Martha H. Patterson

Professor of English at McKendree University.

Martha H. Patterson is the author of Beyond the Gibson Girl:  Reimagining the American New Woman, 1895-1915.  (Illinois, 2005)  and The American New Woman Revisited:  A Reader, 1894-1930. (Rutgers, 2008).  She is currently working on two book-length projects: a monograph titled The Harlem Renaissance Weekly:  African American Newspaper Fiction:  1919-1935 and an edited collection with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.  and Gene Andrew Jarrett tentatively titled The New Negro:  a Reader, 1887-1938, with Princeton.  

Joshua Plencner

Assistant Professor of Political Science at SUNY Oswego.

He teaches a variety of courses in American politics, focusing most often on American political history, identity, and culture. His research agenda investigates material processes of political identity formation in popular American visual culture, with special interest in comics studies, race and racism, political and cultural theory, prison studies, and American Political Development. His work is published in scholarly and popular outlets, including New Political Science, Black Perspectives, Artists Against Police Brutality, The Middle Spaces, and the University Press of Mississippi.

Greg Robinson

Professor of History at l'Université du Québec À Montréal, a French-language institution in Montreal, Canada.

A specialist in North American Ethnic Studies and U.S. Political History, he is the author of several notable books. His first book, By Order of the President: FDR and the Internment of Japanese Americans (Harvard University Press, 2001) uncovers President Franklin Roosevelt’s troubling racial views, and explores his central involvement in the wartime confinement of 120,000 Japanese Americans. The book received glowing reviews from The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, The Los Angeles Times and diverse national newspapers, and spent four months on Academia magazine’s scholarly bestseller list. His second book, A Tragedy of Democracy: Japanese Confinement in North America (Columbia University Press, 2009), winner of the 2009 History book prize of the Association for Asian American Studies, studies Japanese American and Japanese Canadian confinement together in a transnational context, and reveal. His book After Camp: Portraits in Midcentury Japanese American Life and Politics (University of California Press, 2012), winner of the Caroline Bancroft History Prize in Western U.S. History, centers on post war resettlement and coalitions for civil rights between Japanese Americans and other minorities. His most recent solo-authored book, The Great Unknown: Japanese American Sketches offers an alternative history of Japanese Americans.  Professor Robinson is also the coeditor of the book John Okada, winner of a 2019 American Book Award, Pacific Citizens: Larry and Guyo Tajiri and Japanese American Journalism in the World War II Era (University of Illinois Press, 2012) a study of a couple of pioneering Nisei journalists, and coeditor of Miné Okubo: Following Her Own Road, (University of Washington Press, 2009) on the ground-breaking Nisei artist and writer Professor Robinson has also been active speaker and writer in the public arena and the blogsphere. He writes regular columns for the San Francisco Nichi Bei Weekly and for the blog “Discover Nikkei.”

Craig J. Saper

Professor at UMBC in Baltimore, Maryland.

Saper has published Artificial Mythologies; Networked Art; The Amazing Adventures of Bob Brown (in Fordham UP's Empire State series on New York culture) ; and, with his pseudonym dj Readies Intimate Bureaucracies: a manifesto. He has co-edited scholarly collections on: Electracy; Imaging Place; Drifts; Mapping Culture Multimodally; and, edited and introduced six critical editions, including five with Roving Eye Press: The Readies; Words; Gems; 1450-1950; and Houdini. And, in 2020 co-edited, introduced, and annotated the contributors section of the 1931 Readies for Bob Brown's Machine: A Critical Facsimile Edition with Edinburgh University Press. He has published chapters and articles on digital culture, and built readies.org. He co-curated TypeBound (on typewriter and sculptural poetry), and was the co-founder of folkvine.org. He is on the editorial boards of the Hyper-Electric Press digital book-equivalent series,  Rhizomes.net, HyperRhiz.io, Textshop Experiments, and recently the new journal Inscription: The Journal of Material Text – History, Practice, and Theory. His work relevant in the City of Print seminar will build-on and extend work in three forthcoming chapters in collections on The Contemporary Small Press; Is Big Data A New Medium? And, in his own book on The Auteur Publisher.

Saper's 5 Roving Eye Press books (all free as downloads) and links to two other books. http://rovingeyepress.umbc.edu/

David E. E. Sloane

MA ‘66, PhD ’70, Duke University

He specializes in American humor, Mark Twain, American Humor Periodicals, and American Popular poetry of the 19th century. His books relevant to “City of Print” include American Humor Magazines and Comic Periodicals (Greenwood, 1988); The Literary Humor of the Urban Northeast: 1830-1890, 1983 (Louisiana State UP; Reprinted: Routledge, 2018); and Mark Twain as a Literary Comedian (Louisiana State UP, 1979, Second Printing 1982. Reprinted: Routledge, 2017) and scattered articles. He is currently working on the antecedents of modern humor in the Old Northeastern popular press from 1790 to 1900; Popular Poetry from 1798 to 1920; and the second volume of American Humor Magazines and Comic Periodicals, reaching from 1985 through 2025 with some back-additions to the first volume which inexplicably escaped the 645 pages of essays and listings in the earlier book. He presently teaches at the University of New Haven and has previously taught at Medgar Evers College-CUNY and the Fashion Institute of Technology.   

Gricel M. Surillo-Luna 

Professor at the Universidad del Sagrado Corazon in San Juan, Puerto Rico since 2011.

Professor Surillo teaches Humanities survey course, Development of the Puerto Rican Nation, and Economic and urban development of Puerto Rico. Her research interests include college student activism, the railway industry in Puerto Rico and urban development.  

Publications:

“The arrival of the Railroad to Puerto Rico,” The Puerto Rico Online Encyclopedia. San Juan: Puerto Rico: Fundación Puertorriqueña de las Humanidades, 2014.

https://enciclopediapr.org/en/encyclopedia/the-arrival-of-the-railroad-to-puerto-rico/

"Moving Forward: Railways in Puerto Rico,” (Doctoral dissertation), CUNY Academic Works, 2017.  https://academicworks.cuny.edu/gc_etds/2121/

Spencer Tricker

Assistant Professor of English at Longwood University.

His research and teaching emphasize American literature in transnational (and especially transpacific) contexts. His manuscript, “Imminent Communities: Transpacific Literary Form and Racialization,” examines the interaction of U.S. Imperialism, discrepant notions of cosmopolitanism, and American and Asian literature in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. His critical essays and reviews appear, or are forthcoming, in Studies in American Fiction, American Literary Realism, and Early American Literature.

Link: 

"Pan's Burden: Intertextual Aesthetics and Illiberal Cosmopolitanism in Sui Sin Far's 'Eurasian' Stories" (2020) [currently available for free]: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/755672/pdf

Maurice Wheeler

Ph.D., is an associate professor in the College of Information at the University of North Texas – Department of Information Science.

His administrative and archival career began as curator of the Hackley Performing Arts Collection at the Detroit Public Library. During his tenure in that position, Wheeler’s love of African American classical music history and archival exploration led to the library’s acquisition of the personal archives of pioneering concert singer Roland Hayes. His degrees include a Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh, a Master of Music and Master of Library and Information Science, both from the University of Michigan, and a Bachelor of Music from Shorter College. Wheeler has served in administrative positions at the University of Michigan Libraries, the Detroit Public Library and the Atlanta University Center’s Woodruff Library. 

An active author and presenter, his research explores the intersection of history, culture, and politics in libraries and archival collections. His most recent publications focus on workforce diversity in the library profession and issues of identity and racial representation in music archives and special collections. Wheeler is the co-curator of the exhibition, Black Voices at the Met, currently at Lincoln Center’s Metropolitan Opera.