AYENDY BONIFACIO

Assistant Professor of US ethnic literary studies at the University of Toledo.
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His areas of scholarship are American literature and culture, including Latino/a/x studies, periodical studies, reprint culture, and digital humanities. He is currently at work on a book that sits at the intersection of nineteenth-century Latinidad and reprint culture. Drawing examples from over 200 English- and Spanish-language popular dailies and weeklies, his book argues that Hispanophone reprint culture constitutes a vital but still understudied form of public discourse that shaped Latinx literary and intellectual life in the US. Follow him on Twitter: @ayendybonifacio

Janet G. Casey

Associate Dean of the Faculty and Professor of English at Skidmore College.
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She is the author of Dos Passos and the Ideology of the Feminine (Cambridge UP, 1998) and A New Heartland: Women, Modernity, and the Agrarian Ideal in America (Oxford UP, 2009). She has also edited The Novel and the American Left: Critical Essays on Depression-Era Fiction (Iowa UP, 2004) and Teaching Tainted Lit: Popular American Fiction in Today's Classroom (Iowa UP, 2015). When not serving in an administrative position, she regularly teaches a course in Skidmore's American Studies Department entitled “Magazines and Modernity.”

JIM CASEY 

Assistant Professor of African American Studies, History, and English and Managing Director, Center for Black Digital Research, Pennsylvania State University.
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He earned his PhD in English at the University of Delaware, and was a Perkins Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Digital Humanities at Princeton University. His research interests begin with nineteenth-century African American studies, periodicals, and print culture, extending into the public and digital humanities. He is currently completing a book project on The Invention of Editors. With P. Gabrielle Foreman, he is co-editor of the forthcoming collection, The Colored Convention Movement: Black Organizing in the Nineteenth Century (UNC Press). Among others, his digital scholarly projects include co-directing the Colored Conventions Project and Douglass Day. He serves as vice president of the Research Society for American Periodicals. For more, see jim-casey.com.

Jean Lee Cole

Professor of English and Director of the Minor in American Studies at Loyola University, Maryland.
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Recent publications include How the Other Half Laughs: The Comic Sensibility in American Culture, 1895-1920 (University Press of Mississippi, 2020), "A New Digital Divide? Recovery Editing in the Age of Digitization" (Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers, 2016), and "Rising from the Gutter: Rudolph Block, the Comic Strip, and the Ghetto Fiction of Bruno Lessing" (MELUS: Multiethnic Literatures of the United States, 2016). She is also the author of The Literary Voices of Winnifred Eaton: Redefining Ethnicity and Authenticity (2002), and co-editor of Zora Neale Hurston: Collected Plays (2008) and Madame Butterfly and A Japanese Nightingale: Two Orientalist Texts (2002).

Norma Fay Green

Professor Emerita in Journalism, Columbia College Chicago, Department of Communication

She earned an M.S. in Magazine Journalism at Northwestern University in between a B.A. in Journalism and Ph.D. in Mass Media at Michigan State University and worked for more than 20 years in newspaper, magazine and book publishing before committing to full time academia. She received grants from The Ford Foundation, Lilly Endowment, Poynter Institute, Ethics & Excellence in Journalism Foundation, Fulbright and Fulbright-Hays and has been nationally recognized for her research and curricular development. She has been published in 11 books including the award-winning Print Culture in a Diverse America and Women's Periodicals in the United States. Most recently she contributed chapters to Political Pioneer of the Press: Ida B. Wells-Barnett & Her Transnational Crusade for Social Justice (2018) and forthcoming Curating Culture: How Twentieth-Century Magazines Influenced. America (2021) as well as a chapter "Satyagraha Journalism--New York Style: Gandhi's Influence on Dorothy Day's Catholic Worker" in Gandhi, Advocacy Journalism and Media (2022). Email: ngreen@colum.edu

Theodore (Ted) Hamm

Chair of journalism and new media studies at St. Joseph's College, Brooklyn.
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He was a co-founder of The Brooklyn Rail and editor from 2000-2013. Over the past year he's written for publications including Vice News, NY Daily News, the Columbia Journalism Review, City Limits and Gotham Gazette. His books include Rebel and a Cause (2001),The New Blue Media (2008), Pieces of a Decade(co-edited with Williams Cole, 2010), and Frederick Douglass in Brooklyn (2017). Follow him on Twitter @HammerDaily 

Dr. Yadira Perez Hazel

Assistant professor at the Center of Ethnic Studies in the Borough of Manhattan and an Oral Historian at the Lower East Side Tenement Museum, NYC.
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She completed her PhD in cultural anthropology at the University of Virginia with a dissertation entitled Blanqueamiento (whitening) in Paradise: Nation-building, Japanese Immigration and Race in the Dominican Republic. From 2010-2011, she was a postdoctoral fellows at Waikato University and Auckland University in New Zealand and a qualitative researcher on several public health programs and research projects for the Latino Commission on AIDS in NYC. At the Tenement Museum, Dr. Perez Hazel is the Oral History Manager collecting life histories of the Latino community (mostly, Puerto Ricans and Dominicans) who lived and/or worked in the Lower East Side. Concurrently, she is conducting ethnographic research in the Lower East Side with the Puerto Rican, Dominican and Chinese communities. She has published on issues related to identity, whiteness, belonging and immigration in the Dominican Republic.

Brooks E. Hefner

Professor of English at James Madison University.
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He is the author of The Word on the Streets: The American Language of Vernacular Modernism (2017), Black Pulp: Genre Fiction in the Shadow of Jim Crow (2021) as well as a number of articles and book chapters on genre, race, and popular media. He also serves as co-director of Circulating American Magazines, a digital resource for U.S. periodical studies, and he is currently working on an edition of George S. Schuyler’s Afrofuturist serials Black Empire and a collection of the letters of Claude McKay (co-edited with Gary Holcomb).

Noreen O’Connor

Associate Professor of English at King’s College in Pennsylvania.
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She is interested in questions of home and migration, particularly in relation to women’s transnational Anglophone literature, and publishing in the modernist and contemporary periods. She has directed two short-term study abroad trips to India in summer 2012 and winter 2016 to work with both American and Indian students on literary study. In 2014, she traveled to East Africa as part of a Fulbright-Hays project to study the literary curriculum of Ugandan education systems, particularly for A-level, University-level pedagogy. In Kampala, she met with the FEMRITE press to discuss and understand their project to publish the work of East African women Anglophone writers. She was awarded the 2012 Edith Wharton Essay Prize for her article “Consumer Culture and Jazz Age Discontents: Edith Wharton in Pictorial Review,” which appeared in Edith Wharton Review. She is the current president of the Elizabeth von Arnim society and organized the joint conference of the Katherine Mansfield Society and the Elizabeth von Arnim Society at the Huntington Library in 2017. Her most recent article, “Writing Toward a New World: Awakenings in Katherine Mansfield’s ‘Bliss’ and Elizabeth von Arnim’s The Enchanted April,” appeared in Katherine Mansfield and Elizabeth von Arnim: Katherine Mansfield Studies, vol. 11. in October 2019.

Kathleen Hulser

Worked as a public historian, curator, and instructor for many New York organizations.
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From 1999-2011 she served as a public historian at the New-York Historical Society, and her community preservation activities include service on the board of the Mount Morris Park Community Improvement Association which recently raised $4 million to restore the Harlem Fire Watch Tower in Marcus Garvey Park. Hulser is also the assistant director of the Museum of the American Gangster on St. Marks Place. She co-curated The Volunteers Join World War I, 1914-1919 and developed a digital interpretation of the War of 1812 for smart phones (www.warof1812.us). Among other curatorial experience, Hulser worked on Slavery in New York and New York Divided, and was a co-curator of Legacies: Contemporary Artists Reflect on Slavery. She lectures inside the classroom at Pace and NYU as well as facilitates walking tours for the Municipal Art Society. leads educational workshops in museums and schools, such as The Beloved Books and Pictures series at the Hudson River Museum, and has created history content for the new DiMenna Children’s History Museum at N-YHS. Hulser writes online for http://newyorkhistoryblog.blogspot.com, and her recent publications include “Slavery as History at the New-York Historical Society” in The Politics of Memory: Making Slavery Visible in Public Space and “Click History: Anywhere, Anytime,” with Steve Bull. in Museums, Mobile Devices and Social Media. Blog http://ramblingdigitalhumanist.blogspot.comemail:   kathleen.hulser@gmail.comkhulser@pace.edu

Natalie Kalich

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She earned her doctorate at Loyola University Chicago, specializing in Twentieth-Century Literature with a Concentration in Women's Studies. Her current book project investigates commercial magazines from the 1920s, including, Vogue, Vanity Fair, Ladies’ Home Journal, and The Saturday Evening Post to reveal the frequency with which modernist writers contributed to these periodicals and the extent to which public interest made modernism profitable for larger-circulating magazines. Additionally, her essay, “How Fatally Outmoded is Your Point of View?”: 'Vanity Fair’s' Articulation of Modernist Culture to the Modern Reader" was recently published in Reception: Texts, Readers, Audiences, History.

KELLEY KREITZ

Associate Professor of English and affiliate faculty member in the Latinx Studies program
at Pace University in New York City.
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She is also co-director of the university’s digital humanities center, Babble Lab. Her research on print and digital cultures of the Americas has appeared or is forthcoming in American Literary History, American Periodicals, English Language Notes, Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, and the digital mapping project C19LatinoNYC.org. She is working on a book that recovers the leading role played by U.S.-based Latin American writers in the media innovation of the 1880s and 1890s. She serves on the board of the Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage Project at the University of Houston.

Gretchen Long

Professor of History at Williams College in Williams College in Western Massachusetts.
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She teaches courses on slavery and emancipation, urban history, American Women’s history and African American literary history. She also teaches in and works closely with the Africana Studies program at Williams. Her first book, Doctoring Freedom: The Politics of African American Medical Care in Slavery and Emancipation, tells the story of African Americans who fought for access to both medical care and medical education and explores the relationship between medical culture and political identity and possibility. More recently, her research has turned to the history of African American childhood and literary culture. 

Jennifer Moore

Associate Professor in the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota Duluth.
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My research interests include journalism history, visual communication, digital news preservation and participatory news practices. My work on the nineteenth century illustrated press appears in issues of Journalism History, and I have several chapters in media history collections, including “Sensationalism: Murder, Mayhem, Mudslinging, Scandals, and Disasters” in 19th-Century Reporting and After the War: The Press in a Changing America, 1865–1900. I am passionate about teaching my students about journalism and media history and help them make connections to our current media environment.

Michael D. Murray

UM Board of Curator’s Distinguished Professor at the University of Missouri’s St. Louis campus. Michael Murray retired in 2019, after 30 years of teaching.
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He received his undergraduate degree at St. Louis University and his Ph.D. from the University of Missouri-Columbia. Prior to that, he worked for CBS News and News Election Service. He was founder and first director of the Communication program (now department) at the University of Louisville, the first person tenured in his field at that institution. He also taught at Virginia Tech and was founding director of the Greenspun School of Journalism & Media Studies at UNLV. He served as department chair before being named a UM Board of Curators’ Professor and subsequently served as Chair of the Faculty Senate and University Assembly. His scholarly articles have appeared in all of the major, main-stream journals in mass media  including: Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Journalism & Mass Communication Educator, American Journalism, Journalism History,  Communication Quarterly, TV Quarterly, Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, and Communication Education. He is co-author of the text Media Law & Ethics (Routledge/Taylor & Francis). 

Sarah H. Salter

Assistant Professor of English at Texas A&M University Corpus Christi and Associate Editor of American Periodicals.
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Her research interests include nineteenth-century American and Italian literature, U.S. periodical cultures and ethnic writing, and the intersections of cultural politics and literary aesthetics; her work has been supported by fellowships at the American Antiquarian Society, the Italian American Studies Association, and the Penn State Institute for the Arts and Humanities. Sarah's work can be found in the essay collection Facing Melville, Facing Italy and The Henry James Review. 

Jesse W. Schwartz

Associate Professor of English at LaGuardia Community College.
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In 2013, he received his PhD in English and American Studies from the CUNY Graduate Center. His interests include radical American literature, periodical studies, Marxian theory, and critical ethnic studies, and his work examines the cultural responses to American radicalism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. His most recent project examines the coverage of the Russian Revolution in American print culture. In particular, he traces the ways in which mainstream periodicals used the event to naturalize an increasingly muscular American capitalism, while the Black, radical, and ethnic presses invoked Moscow to galvanize opposition and create coalitions across the lines of race and class.

blevin shelnutt

Assistant Professor of English at the University of North Carolina Wilmington.
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Dr. Shelnutt’s interests include early and nineteenth-century American literature, material culture studies, race and gender studies, and book history. Her current research explores the relationship between literary aesthetics and the material production of texts in the nineteenth century, focusing on the development of the publishing industry in New York City.

Steven Carl Smith

Associate Professor of History at Providence College.
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Steven Carl Smith is a historian of Revolutionary and early National America with research and teaching interests in media, politics, and urban history. His first book, "An Empire of Print: The New York Publishing Trade in the Early American Republic," published in June 2017 by the Pennsylvania State University Press as part of the Penn State Series in the History of the Book, traces the development of Manhattan's publishing trade from the end of the Revolution to the age of Jackson. Named the 2012 Malkin New Scholar by the Bibliographical Society of America, he is formerly the Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in Early American Literature & Material Texts at the University of Pennsylvania's McNeil Center for Early American Studies. He has published essays on the history of the book in early America and political culture in seventeenth-century Maryland.

Brian Sweeney

Associate Professor of English at The College of Saint Rose, where he teaches courses in literature, print culture, and critical theory.
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Sweeney’s areas of research include nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century American and African American literature, print culture studies, digital humanities, cultures of amateurism and professionalism, and literature and music. He is completing a book on professionalism, affect, and genre in the 19th-century American novel, titled For Love or Money: Professionalism, Postsentimentalism, and American Fiction, 1830-1910.

With his English Department colleague Eurie Dahn, he directs The Digital Colored American Magazine, a digital humanities project undertaken in partnership with the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale.

Sweeney earned his Ph.D. from Brown University, where he was a Russell and Selina Wonderlic Fellow. In addition to teaching at Saint Rose, Sweeney has been on the English faculty at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth.

Sweeney serves on the Advisory Board of the Research Society for American Periodicals and is an article referee for PMLA, American Literary History, and American Periodicals.

Edward Timke

Instructor of advertising, media, and intercultural communication courses at Duke University for the Department of Cultural Anthropology and the Innovation & Entrepreneurship Initiative.
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He is also Associate Editor of Advertising & Society Quarterly and a contributor to ADTextOnline.org. Timke's specialties include media and advertising history, international media and advertising, and media theory and research methods. His work focuses on the role of media and advertising in shaping how different cultures understand and imagine each other. With Brooks Hefner, Timke is a 2017 recipient of a Digital Humanities Advancement Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. He has also received numerous awards and nominations recognizing his excellence in teaching and mentoring of student research.

Sheila Webb

Professor in the Department of Journalism at Western Washington University where she teaches magazine and visual journalism, research methods, and history and ethics of media.
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She holds a doctorate in mass communication and a M.F.A. in graphic design and photography, both from the University of Wisconsin. She has received both research and teaching awards, including the Covert Award for the best publication on media history in 2011 and a Best Practices Award for visual communication from the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC). Her research focuses on the interplay of visual and textural artifacts embedded in the mass media, particularly magazines, and how such artifacts embody the larger cultural narratives of their time. Recent articles include:

The Delphian Society and Its Publications: A Historical and Cultural Analysis of a Primer for Middle-Class Women’s Education

Creating Life: "Americas Most Potent Editorial Force"

Radical portrayals: Dickey Chapelle on the front lines

Daniel Worden

Associate Professor in the College of Art & Design, Rochester Institute of Technology.
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He is the author of Neoliberal Nonfictions: The Documentary Aesthetic from Joan Didion to Jay-Z and Masculine Style: The American West and Literary Modernism, the editor of The Comics of Joe Sacco: Journalism in a Visual World, and the co-editor of Oil Culture and Postmodern/Postwar & After: Rethinking American Literature.