Susan Belasco is Professor of English Emerita at the University of Nebraska‐Lincoln. The author of numerous essays on nineteenth‐century American literature, she is the editor or co‐editor of several works, including Stowe in Her Own Time (2009), “Whitman’s Periodical Poetry” for the Walt Whitman Archive, Periodical Literature in Nineteenth‐Century America, and the Bedford Anthology of American Literature.
Theresa Strouth Gaul is Professor and Chair of the Department of English at Texas Christian University. Among her books are Cherokee Sister: The Collected Writings of Catharine Brown, 1818–1823 (2014) and To Marry An Indian: The Marriage of Harriet Gold and Elias Boudinot, 1823–1839 (2005). A past co‐editor of Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers, she has published widely on epistolary writings, women’s writings, and early Native studies.
Linck Johnson, Charles A. Dana Professor of English at Colgate University, is the author of numerous articles and book chapters on Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Walt Whitman, as well as Thoreau’s Complex Weave: The Writing of “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers,” with the Text of the First Draft (1986). He is the co‐editor, with Susan Belasco, of the Bedford Anthology of American Literature.
Michael Soto is Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs and Professor of English at Trinity University in San Antonio, where he teaches courses on twentieth‐century US literature and cultural history. His books include The Modernist Nation: Generation, Renaissance, and Twentieth‐Century American Literature (2004) and Measuring the Harlem Renaissance: The U.S. Census, African American Identity, and Literary Form (2016).