Professor Neuman teaches and researches in the fields of early American literature and book history. In Jeremiah’s Scribes: Creating Sermon Literature in Puritan New England (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013), she delves into the world of sermon notetaking, shifting attention from pulpit to pew, demonstrating how sermon auditors helped shape this dominant genre of Puritan literature. Professor…

Lisa Kasmer, Associate Professor of English, specializes in gender and sexuality studies and trauma studies in Romanticism and Victorian culture. Her research focuses on the construction of sociopolitical narratives and subjectivity in nineteenth-century literature through genre and form. Her monograph Novel Histories: British Women Writing History, 1760-1830 examines women’s political engagement in the late eighteenth…

Betsy Huang is Professor of English at Clark University. She served as Associate Provost and Dean of the College from 2019 to 2024 and held the Andrea B. and Peter D. Klein ’64 Distinguished Professorship from 2018 to 2023.  Dr. Huang joined Clark’s English Department in 2003 as its first specialist in U.S. multi-ethnic literature.…