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Katherine Adams is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Tulsa, where she teaches courses in nineteenth-century American literature, African American literature, and women's studies. She is the author of several articles on race, gender, and nationalism in American literature. Her current project is a book about the trope of privacy as it operates within various mid-nineteenth-century publics. Eric Gary Anderson is an Associate Professor of English at Oklahoma State University, where he teaches American, American Indian, and Southern literatures. He is the author of American Indian Literature and the Southwest: Contexts and Dispositions (University of Texas, 1999) as well as of numerous essays in books such as Speak to Me Words: Essays on Contemporary American Indian Poetry (University of Arizona, 2003) and South to a New Place: Region, Literature, Culture (Louisiana State University, 2002). Currently he is working on two research projects, one on early southeastern captivity narratives and one on William Faulkner's environmental imagination. Philip Barnard teaches in the Department of English at the University of Kansas. He writes on American literature and cultural theory, and has translated and edited fiction and theory by figures including Victor Séjour, Jean-Luc Nancy, and Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe. He is co-editor of Revising Charles Brockden Brown: ... log in or subscribe to read full text