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• Notes on Contributors

JULIE GOODSPEED-CHADWICK is Chancellor’s Professor of English, affiliate faculty in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and director of the Office of Student Research at Indiana University Columbus. She is the author of the books Reclaiming Assia Wevill: Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, and the Literary Imagination (Louisiana State UP, 2019) and Modernist Women Writers and War: Trauma and the Female Body in Djuna Barnes, H.D., and Gertrude Stein (Louisiana State UP, 2011). With Peter K. Steinberg, she coedited The Collected Writings of Assia Wevill (Louisiana State UP, 2021), which was recognized by the Popular Culture Association with the 2022 Susan Koppelman Award for the Best Anthology, Multi-Authored, or Edited Book in Feminist Studies in Popular and American Culture.

AMY L. GATES is an associate professor of English at Missouri Southern State University. She teaches courses in British Romantic and Victorian literature, medicine and literature, global arts and culture, Shakespeare, literary theory, and composition. Her research interests include the perception of depictions of the dead and their graves as future- and progress-oriented in British Romantic literature; emerging concepts of “vocation” and career guidance as a means for social mobility and gender parity in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries; and Romantic-era British women’s writing. She has presented papers at numerous conferences and has published work in the Keats-Shelley Journal and Women’s Writing.

NICOLE C. LIVENGOOD is a professor of English at Marietta College in Southeast Ohio. Her research interests include disability studies; periodical studies; nineteenth-century women writers; and literary and rhetorical approaches to abortion in antebellum American popular culture, with a focus on recovering the voices of women who testified in 1840s abortion trials. Her current project, Beyond Seduction and Abortion: The Life and “Memoir” of Zulma Marache, combines these interests. Livengood has published work in Studies in American Humor, American Journalism, and Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers.

RONNIE K. STEPHENS is an assistant professor of English at Tarrant County College. He is currently ABD at the University of Texas at Arlington, specializing in American poetry and transgressive teaching practices for the twenty-first century classroom. His research centers the role of poetry in subverting antiethnic and anti-LGBTQ legislation affecting public education today. In addition to his role as an instructor of World Literatures, English Composition and Technical Writing, Stephens is a staff reviewer for The Poetry Question and a writer for the nonpartisan nonprofit Interrogating Justice. He is the author of three books, including the illustrated poetry collection They Rewrote Themselves Legendary, which won the New England Book Prize.

EMILY BANKS is a visiting assistant professor of English and creative writing at Franklin College. She holds a PhD from Emory University and an MFA from the University of Maryland. Her scholarship, which focuses on American gothic literature, has appeared in Women’s Studies, ESQ, Arizona Quarterly, Mississippi Quarterly, and the edited volumes Shirley Jackson and Domesticity: Beyond the Haunted House (Bloomsbury) and Shirley Jackson: A Companion (Peter Lang). She directs the Shirley Jackson Society and is a managing editor of the new peer-reviewed journal Shirley Jackson Studies. She has also published a poetry collection, Mother Water (Lynx House Press), and has recent poems in journals that include Plume, CutBank, 32 Poems, Copper Nickel, Mid-American Review, and The Rumpus. She lives in Indianapolis.

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