Introducing the Colored Conventions Project Team

Founded in 2012, the award-winning Colored Conventions Project (CCP) core team is comprised of a diverse group of dedicated and energetic scholars, graduate student leaders, librarians, and undergraduate researchers. In 2020, CCP became one of three flagship projects of the Center for Black Digital Research, #DigBlk, at Penn State University. Project members represent a wide range of academic disciplines from English and history to computer science and German. Augmented by our North American Teaching Partners, our interdisciplinary team is committed to generating an online hub that “brings buried African American history to digital life” and attends to social justice activism in scholarship and research by offering an opportunity for deep engagement with 19th-century Black political organizing. This work has been recognized by awards from the MLA, ASA, and PCA/ACA along with grants from the NEH, Mellon Foundation, and CLIR. Meet the team! Then see the video about the Colored Conventions Project and learn more about project committees and our project principles.

Gabrielle is the Colored Convention Project’s founding faculty director and an award-winning teacher and scholar of nineteenth-century Black literary history and culture. She is the author of four books and editions, and is known for her widely taught essays. Gabrielle is deeply committed to collaborative projects and scholarship including Colored Conventions in the Nineteenth Century and the Digital Age, the first edited collection that addresses seven decades of early Black activism, co-edited with Jim Casey and Sarah L. Patterson. Gabrielle’s ground-breaking research and edition of Harriet Wilson’s Our Nig was likewise created in collaboration. Dance and poetry performance pieces on Wilson, David Drake or “Dave the Potter,” the Colored Conventions and convention delegate Mary Ann Shadd Cary emerge from a long-term partnership with Dr. Lynnette Young Overby and poet Glenis Redmond. Gabrielle is a Professor of English, African American Studies and History at Penn State University where she holds the Paterno Chair in Liberal Arts and is the founding co-director of the Center for Black Digital Research, #DigBlk, housed in the PSU University Libraries. Gabrielle remains a Senior Library Research Fellow at the University of Delaware where CCP was founded and she once held the Ned B. Allen Professorship of English. The Colored Conventions Project emerged from a graduate class Foreman taught in 2012 at UD. Since then she has worked closely with the team, its partners, funders, and institutional sponsors, to support and facilitate CCP and #DigBlk.

Denise G. Burgher, PhD, serves as the Chair of the Curriculum Committee, Community Engagement, and Historic Churches with the Colored Conventions Project and supports curriculum development, broad engagement with the public, and with historic churches associated with the Colored Conventions Movement. Denise has been involved with CCP since 2015 and contributed significantly to our first transcribed records initiative with the AME church. She has participated in the development of digital exhibits, the inaugural and subsequent CCP murals, the FEW Harper Symposium, and many other events. Her academic work focuses on the 19th-century diasporic Black church, Black women’s literature, the history of public school education in America, trauma-informed pedagogy, and Black rhetorics. In addition to deeply engaging CCM records, her work focuses on literature written by Afro-Protestant African diaspora women in North America, engaging issues of agency, mobility, theology, race, gender, and class. Her scholarship and professional contributions include a suite of online curricula, scholarly publications, digital projects, and public humanities initiatives. She is a Senior Research Associate at the Center for Black Digital Research at Penn State.

Eden Mekonen

Data Curator and Senior Research Project Manager (2025-Present)
Colored Conventions Project Manager • Douglass Day Project Manager (2023-2025)
Digital Exhibits Committee • CBDR Communications Committee (2022-2023)
Eden Mekonen, a Pennsylvania State University dual-title Geography and African Studies PhD candidate, serves as the Data Curator and Senior Research Project Manager with the Colored Conventions Project, where she supports training, facilitating, and managing CCP’s undergraduate, graduate, and faculty researchers, archivists, and metadata teams and digital archives committees. She has been involved with CCP since 2023 and has collaboratively redesigned CCP’s metadata standards, reviewed digital exhibits, worked on social media, and contributed to the execution of digital records transcription initiatives, project management, and documentation processes. Her community-engaged academic and professional work focuses on Black Digital Humanities, digital cultural preservation, and collective memorialization within and across Ethiopian diasporas; as well as transnational mutual aid practices and (digital) placemaking. Eden earned her M.S. in Geography at Penn State and her Bachelor’s degree in Critical Theory and Social Justice with a Postcolonial Theory emphasis and Interdisciplinary Writing minor from Occidental College.

Samantha Q. de Vera is an assistant professor in the Department of History at the University of California, Irvine and a CBDR Faculty Partner. De Vera received a PhD in History from the University of California, San Diego, and an MA in English from the University of Delaware. Her project, “A Freedom No Greater Than Bondage: Black Refugees and Unfree Labor at the Dawn of Mass Incarceration,” traces the lives of Black refugees and formerly enslaved people who experienced incarceration in the hands of the Union military (and thereby the federal government) during the Civil War and Reconstruction era. De Vera also a long-time member of the Colored Conventions Project (CCP), having created several digital exhibits that explore Black activism and politics. Her publications on the Colored Conventions movement center Black women’s activism in the long nineteenth century.

Keon Burns

CCP Research Team • PhD candidate in US History and African American Studies at Penn State University

Keon Burns joined the Center for Black Digital Research in 2021-2022. He is a Bunton-Waller Fellow and McCourtney Family Graduate scholar at Pennsylvania State University. He is a dual title PhD candidate in US History and African American Studies. He holds a Bachelor degree in Accountancy and Masters degree in Southern Studies from the University of Mississippi. His research areas include Business History, late nineteenth and twentieth century United States, and African American history.

Lauren is the Center for Black Digital Research, #DigBlk, Librarian and the Center-wide project manager at Penn State University. She works with students, colleagues, and partners to implement, develop, and manage digital scholarship and publishing projects. As a member of the #DigBlk Exec Team, she participates in strategic planning, grant writing and management, and relationship development. Lauren has worked in publishing for more than 20 years, primarily in the non-profit and education sectors, promoting underrepresented voices, communities, and histories. She’s experienced publishing’s evolution into the digital age, and how this transforms the way we communicate ideas, stories, and histories. Her work includes managing small to medium scale database projects, website migrations, and web development. Lauren has a MLIS degree from the University of Maryland, College Park, with a specialization in archives and digital curation, and a B.A. in Visual Sociology: Film and Societal Issues from the Johnston Center at the University of Redlands.

Taylor Abrams-Rollinson

Ph.D. student, Communication and Film, University of Memphis

Taylor Abrams-Rollinson joined the Center of Black Digital Research as a CBDR Satellite Researcher in 2023. She is a second-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Communication and Film at the University of Memphis. Her research focuses on African American rhetoric, cultural, media, and film studies.

Simone graduated from the University of Delaware with her Masters in History and Museum Studies. She also received her undergraduate degree at University of Delaware in Political Science with a Global Studies concentration; and in Black American Studies with a Black Art, Literature and Cultural Studies concentration as well as a minor in African Studies. She joined the Colored Conventions team in Spring 2014. She is most interested in providing access to information that is not easily accessible.

Alyssa is an undergraduate aiming to achieve a Bachelors of Arts in Communications. A strong believer that you should love what you do, Alyssa brings passion and dedication to her role as the social media assistant for the Colored Conventions Project. Alyssa is excited about the opportunity to contribute to the CCP team where she has been learning about American history through the preservation of African American archives.

Ethan is a Ph.D. student in the History department at University of Delaware. His research focuses on 20th century African-American history. He’s interested in mapping the numerous demonstrations, protests, and actions in New York City between 1948-1978. Barnett also has a strong interest in public scholarship, experimental films, and the digital humanities.

Michelle is a graduate of the University of Delaware with a B.A. in English. She joined the Colored Conventions Project in September 2013 as a member of the research group. She is passionate about discovering the origins of African American grassroots political organization and the manner in which the narratives of African American history have been diminished over time.

Eric graduated with a dual degree in English and Plant and Soil Science. Eric has researched the history of the original printed copies of the minutes of these conventions, and helped locate digital copies of previously unavailable convention minutes. He now works with Bryan Stevenson’s Equal Justice Initiative and will be pursuing a career in the law when his two year internship comes to a close.

Kelli Coles is a third year PhD candidate in the History Department at the University of Delaware and African American Public Humanities Fellow. She joined the Website and Digital Exhibits Committee in Spring 2017, becoming co-chair in Spring 2018. Her research areas include antebellum Black American girls and women’s history, material culture, interior design, museum curatorial studies, and digital humanities.

Clayton is the associate director of the Center for Digital and Online Learning at UPenn’s College of Arts and Sciences and a Ph.D. candidate in the department of English at the University of Delaware. From 2012-2017, he chaired the CCP Grants Committee. Clay sees the Colored Conventions Project as foregrounding the lived histories of African-American activists and writers whose individual difficulties with racism, sexism, and slavery have inspired present struggles for equality and freedom.

Amanda is an undergraduate student at the University of Delaware pursuing a B.S. in English Literature, and a minor in advertising. She joined the Colored Conventions team in the summer of 2013 as a member of the Research Group. She is deeply interested in exploring the way that technology supports the revival of lost history, and encourages the spread of knowledge and ideas.

Rashida is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Computer and Information Sciences at the University of Delaware. Her research interests include artificial intelligence, accessible technology, intelligent tutoring systems, and natural language generation. Her current research involves creating effective tutorial responses for deaf students learning written English. She joined the Colored Conventions Project in early 2015 to help organize the data so that it can be accessed and queried easily for analytical purposes. She is one of the CoDa team leaders.

Portia is a PhD candidate in Biomechanics and Movement Science at the University of Delaware. Her research examines the biomechanical and functional outcomes of total knee replacements and their influence on the need for future surgery. She joined the Colored Conventions team in the spring of 2014 as a member of the research group. She is passionate about unearthing information about African American history and invested in finding interesting ways to visualize such materials to make them even more interesting to the public.

Colette is Associate Professor of Visual Communications in the Art Department at the University of Delaware. She works on graphic design for the Colored Conventions site–advising staff, students and others who make the site work visually. She also writes about activist graphic design, particularly the work of Emory Douglas, artist for the Black Panther Party. “All Power,” her video about Douglas’s work, was shown in the exhibition Cinema Remixed & Reloaded: Black Women Artists and the Moving Image Since 1970. www.digidiva.net.

Emily was currently an undergraduate at the University of Delaware pursuing a degree in History and German, in addition to a minor in Women’s Studies. Emily became a part of the Colored Conventions project in the spring of 2013 to gain more knowledge about the digital humanities. As a local Delawarean, she looks forward to graduating from her state’s university in the spring of 2014.

Jenny is a fifth-year undergraduate at the University of Delaware. She is a history major, with a museum studies minor. Jenny joined the Colored Conventions Project in Fall 2016 as part of the social media committee.

datejie is a strategic media and communications specialist, scholar, journalist and organizer. Her work centers liberation praxis and the global histories and futures of African peoples, labour, and the news media. In early 2017, she interviewed CCP co-founders and organizers for her radio series #organizingstories. datejie interprets the CCP’s legacy as a model for borderless diasporic engagement and education today. She’s now contributing to CCP’s digital strategies and Black Canadian diaspora outreach and co-chairing its communications committee.

Audrey was Digital Humanities and Web Services Librarian at the University of Delaware Library. She provided assistance implementing design and functionality changes to the Colored Conventions website and its Omeka content management system. In addition to her work at the University of Delaware, Audrey was a consultant Technical Content Specialist working on PubMed Central at the National Center for Biotechnology Information.

Jordan received his Ph.D. in English with research interests in eighteenth-century British literature and print culture, book history, bibliography, bibliometrics, and archival science in 2017. He participated with Colored Conventions Project in February 2014 thru August 2016 and served as the database management coordinator, working with University of Delaware librarians to ensure project sustainability.

Vanessa is currently a sophomore at the University of Delaware, with a major in Psychology (B.S), and a minor in Spanish. In CCP, Vanessa has helped work to design an assessment report of CCP’s most recent Symposium, which included analyzing surveys of the attendees and reporting on the desirable aspects of the symposium, and what attendees wanted to see more of.

As a five-year member of the Project, she works closely with the project’s directors and leadership in almost all aspects of CCP’s work. Anna oversees undergraduate researchers, trains incoming graduate students, helps to coordinate CCP’s CLIR post-docs, North American Teaching and Satellite partners, and has been part of the grant writing and reporting team. With the project co-director and the project manager, she spearheads the project’s data curation and digital archives initiatives. Anna is a Ph.D. candidate in History at the University of Delaware. Her dissertation explores household accidents and changing conceptions of safety and danger in nineteenth-century America.

Lovely was an undergraduate student majoring in Sociology with a concentration in Health and Health Services with a minor in Public Health. She first learned about and became interested in the Colored Conventions movement while taking a course on 19th-century African American literature with Professor Foreman. Lovely works in Exhibits helping to create visually appealing narratives and establish connections between people of the Colored Conventions.

Paul, a native of Rockland County, New York, is a junior at the University of Delaware, where he majors in History and Education. As an undergraduate researcher for the Colored Conventions Project, Paul located and organized information about delegates such as those involved in the 1855 California state convention. He was especially interested in discovering more information about delegates who had a profound impact on conventions and learning more about nineteenth-century history.

Monica presented at the poster session of the Colored Conventions symposium. Along with being an undergraduate researcher with the Colored Conventions Project, Monica is the Co-President of Sisters on the Move a registered student organization dedicated to mentorship and health programing for minority female students in both the collegiate and high school levels.  Monica is in law school now and hopes to open up her own not-for-profit organization dedicated to legal education and legal access.

Hans is a PhD candidate in the Disaster Science and Management program at the University of Delaware and a Research Associate at the Disaster Research Center. His current research interests focus on international responses to disasters; development and disaster recovery; population displacement and civil infrastructure systems. With his previous experience and knowledge using Geospatial Information Systems (GIS), Hans is excited about the opportunity to contribute to CCP’s mapping and spatial analysis capabilities.

Kira was an undergraduate student at the University of Delaware pursuing a B.A. in Anthropology, and a minor in history. In her work with the Digital Archives Committee Kira has been involved in the discovery of and classification of documents associated with the Colored Conventions movement, including petitions, memorials, and minutes. Kira is passionate about applying an anthropological mindset to issues affecting modern marginalized populations, specifically women and people of color.

Kayla is a third year Dean’s Scholar student at the University of Delaware. As a CCP member Kayla has participated in working with Scripto and Basecamp software to uncover Black history pertaining to delegation and networking. She has been responsible for identifying historical documents related to the Colored Conventions Movement, familiarizing churches and outside communities with Black American history, digitizing historical documents through exhibits, constructing call and email scripts for efficient communication.

Wendyliz Martinez is a PhD Candidate in African American Studies and English Dual Title Program at Penn State. She is currently a graduate admin assistant and started working with the Center Fall 2022. Her research interests include representations of the Caribbean and Black Girlhood in literature, film, and social media. She has recently published a chapter titled, “Tik Tok For Us By Us: Black Girlhood, Joy, and Self-Care” in Tik Tok Cultures in the United States edited by Trevor Boffone. Martinez is a City College of New York and Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow..

Kelsey graduated from UD in 2014 with a double-major in Art Conservation and Art History with a minor in Chemistry. As an undergraduate student in conservation, she was thrilled to be part of a project working towards preserving and transferring archives from a revolutionary time in history into a more accessible online resource. Kelsey was a member of the grants working committee, helping to locate proper funding to support the Colored Convention Project’s aims.

Olivia is an undergraduate student pursuing a History major at the University of Delaware. She works with the Project’s communications committee, specifically working with the CCP Twitter account. She joined in Fall 2016 after receiving an email about the organization and automatically wanted to get involved! In addition to the CCP, Olivia is a Blue Hen Ambassador and a member of Phi Sigma Pi National Honor Fraternity.

Olivia completed a Master’s in English at the University of Delaware in 2012. She was a contributing member of the fabulous, inspiring working group that launched the Colored Conventions Project. She also produced a paper that served as a starting point for articulating the project’s mission, methodological and theoretical frameworks, editorial policies, and directions for future work. Olivia currently works at a private non-profit mental health center as a case manager.

Lavanya finished her MA student in English where she was interested in researching the intersections of race/ethnicity and disability within the digital humanities. Lavanya joined the Colored Conventions Project in spring 2015 and to help with web support and preparing transcriptions. With an avid interest in coding, she is excited to be a part of this innovative project. She is also a co-leader of the exhibits team. She is presently pursing a graduate degree in computer and information sciences.

Eileen received an MA in English from UD and hails from central Arkansas. Her research interests include nineteenth-century African American and American Literature, race as a performance, and material culture studies.  She was delighted to be a part of the Colored Conventions Project—a movement she learned about as an undergraduate. She first served on the grants committee and then as co-chair of the digital archives committee.

Courtney Murray is a Dual-Title PhD student in the Departments of English and African American Studies and a Scholar with the Center for Black Digital Research (CBDR) at The Pennsylvania State University. Her research focuses on 19th c. African American Diasporic archives and literature and how those texts engage with Black feminisms, space/time, fugitivity, and liberation. At the CBDR, she further expands her research with Black Digital Humanities methods. In addition, she has served on the Colored Convention Project’s Douglass Day Zooniverse crowdsourcing development team, Douglass Day Communication and Outreach committee, and Digital Archives Committee.

NATHAN NIKOLIC

Digital Visualizations 

Nathan graduated from the English department at the University of Delaware. He became interested in the Colored Conventions Project while taking a class on 19th century African American literature. He worked mostly with archival research to assist in table­making and mapping. He also presented at the poster session of the Colored Conventions symposium. Nathan is now pursuing PhD in comparative literature at the CUNY Center in New York City where is also involved in social justice advocacy.

Danya completed an M.A. in History and Museum Studies certificate at the University of Delaware. She is now a doctoral student in American Studies at Yale University. She became involved in the project through Dr. Foreman’s course in nineteenth-century African American literary history, criticism and print culture. She contributed to site design and building the public 1859 National Colored Convention Exhibit. She also participated in several campus presentations on the CCP.

Briana is a senior undergraduate student majoring in Africana Studies with concentrations in Social Studies Education. Briana joined CCP during the Fall 2018 semester to enhance her researching skills and further her knowledge of African American history. Briana works in the Digital Archives committee researching postbellum conventions in the South and learning the ins and outs of metadata. She is also the President for the Ankh Maat Wedjau Honor Society (AMWHS). After graduating she will be a teacher with Teach for America in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Marie was an undergraduate student the University of Delaware studying Communications and Spanish. Marie joined Colored Conventions as minute taker and now does research on missing minutes.

Morgan Robinson is a Dual-Title PhD student in the History & African American Studies Departments at The Pennsylvania State University. She is currently a #DigBlack Scholar with the Center for Black Digital Research, a Bunton-Waller Fellow, and previously served as a 2021 Cooper-DuBois Mentoring Program Fellow. Her research interests focus on free Black people during the 19th century, particularly those belonging to the Black Bourgeoisie class. Morgan earned her BA in History from Spelman College and her MA in Global, International, & Comparative History from Georgetown University.

Marissa was an undergraduate student at the University of Delaware studying English with a concentration in Creative Writing. She first learned about the Colored Conventions Project while taking an African American Literature class with Professor Foreman and became interested in joining the team after attending one of the symposiums in 2014. She has a passion for reading and wants to help younger students discover the same joys she has discovered and help them achieve their full potential in school.

Elizabeth is an undergraduate English Education student at the University of Delaware. Recently introduced to the world of digital humanities and database research, Elizabeth started working with the Colored Conventions team as a research intern in June of 2012. A She served as the Senior Undergraduate Research Advisor for the Colored Conventions Project, supervising and training undergrad team members and volunteers to guide them through the ins and outs of using digital databases.

Amos is an undergraduate student at the University of Delaware. He studies English with a minor in Black American Studies. Amos is a member of the Colored Conventions Project’s historic church outreach committee and is working on building relationships and gathering information about historic Black churches. He is also a UD Scholar.

Brett is a student in the Alfred Lerner School of Business at the University of Delaware, pursuing a dual degree in International Business and Economics, with a minor in Spanish. He joined the Colored Conventions team in Spring 2014. Originally driven to the project through his love of cultural interaction, he serves as the project’s secretary and assists in planning, mapping, and project organization.

Monet is a Ph.D. student in the English Department, as well as an African American Public Humanities Initiative (AAPHI) Fellow. Her research interests include 19th and 20th century African American literature with an emphasis on Black women’s literary production and historical memory. Monet joined CCP in Fall 2018.

Arline is a Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Delaware and is currently writing her dissertation entitled, “‘Horrors, Horrors, Horrors’: 19th Century African American Literature and the use of Gothic Eruptions to articulate Soul Murder Trauma.”  Her work analyzes how and why African American writers’ turned to gothic language to articulate hidden forms of embedded and encrypted psycho-spiritual traumas that enslavement and other methods of oppression and captivity imposed. Prior to embarking on her advanced degree, Arline served as an officer in the United States Army and has twenty years of teaching experience at the Secondary and Post-Secondary level. She joined the CCP team in August 2019 and works as an assistant Project Coordinator.

Gerti graduate from the University of Delaware in 2015, majoring in Political Science, with a concentration in Public law, and minors in Legal Studies and English. Gerti believes everyone deserves a voice in our justice system, and is specifically interested in public policy for women of the African diaspora from a global perspective. Gerti joined the Colored Conventions Project in the summer of 2013. She now is a legal assistant at the Center for American Progress.

James graduated from UD in 2017 with a major in English and a minor in Public Policy. He first learned about the Colored Conventions Project through Professor Foreman in Spring 2015 and joined the next year. He has been a part of the Pipeline/Digital Archives committee and enjoys applying his knowledge and passion for African American history to his work.

Ariana graduated from the University of Delaware in 2015 with a bachelor’s degree in International Relations, concentrating in Diplomacy and specializing in the Asian Region, and minoring in Asian Studies and Japanese. She joined the Colored Conventions team during the spring of 2013 from her love of history and interest in resurrecting lost knowledge. She is most interested in discovering the ways in which people of the past connect with one another to inspire various ideas and effects of our day.

Sarah teaches African American Literature in the Department of English at UMass Amherst. She specializes in 19th-century African American (women’s) literature, print culture and Black histo-digital studies. Sarah is a co-founder whose project specialities include undergraduate research, exhibits, curriculum development and assessment. She is co-editing the forthcoming volume, Colored Conventions in the Nineteenth Century and the Digital Age. 

Maisha is a librarian at the University of Delaware where she focuses on instruction, organizational learning and development and serves as a liaison to Fashion and Apparel Studies. Maisha has a Masters in Library Science and B.A. in History from the University of Maryland, College Park. Maisha joined CCP in Fall 2018 as a volunteer focused on Digital Archives and development.

Kim is an assistant professor of History at Purdue University. She is also the founder and director of the Black Press Research Collective (http://blackpressresearchcollective.org/). Her research focuses on discourses and representations of gender and sexuality in the early twentieth century Black Press.  She is completing a manuscript titled, “We Are Becoming a Tabloid Race: The Politics of Gender and Sexuality in the Black Press, 1925-1945.”   Her future research focuses on cultural Pan-Africanism in African American and Ghanaian newspapers in the twentieth century.  She is also a Digital Humanist and was recently awarded a NEH Digital Humanities Level 1 Start-Up grant for her work on digitizing scholarship on the Black Press.  Her work has been published in History Compass, Journalism History, Transformations, Pennsylvania History and Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography. Her writing on Black popular culture and romance is featured on the “Popular Romance Project” web site.

Tracy serves in the Program Coordinator for the Museum Studies program at UD. She is currently working on a doctorate in Educational Leadership at the University of Delaware. Her interests are in Digital Humanities, and Museums & Technology. Tracy is the social media manager for the MSST program and serves as the webmaster for the Museum Studies website, and is currently serving as the Regional Digital Humanities Coordinator for UD’s Interdisciplinary Humanities Research Center.

Charlotte is a Visiting Assistant Professor in Psychology at Widener University. Her research explores the psychological, emotional, and academic well-being of college students. She is specifically interested in how individual well-being is linked to community well-being. She joined the Colored Conventions Project in the spring of 2014 as a member of the grant writing committee and in 2015 she became involved in the evaluation and assessment team. She is excited to be working with such a talented group of scholars. Former Project member, current advisory board.

Meg received her Ph.D in English from the University of Delaware, with research interests in digital humanities, nineteenth-century American literature, digital curation, and book history. Her dissertation focused on the interface design, literary theories, and bibliographical principles at work in publicly-accessible collections of nineteenth-century literary history. Advisory board.

Molly is the Discovery Services Librarian at the University of Delaware Library. Her library experience includes special collections cataloging at both the University of California at Santa Barbara and at Hagley Museum and Library (Wilmington, DE). Her focus for the Colored Conventions Project is on creating consistent, discoverable, and permanent digital copies of the Project’s documents.

Linda was a reference librarian at the University of Delaware Library with subject responsibilities for English and American literature, comparative literature, theatre and fashion. Linda’s research interests include nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature. She is the co-author of Literary Research and the American Realism and Naturalism Period: Strategies and Sources (Scarecrow Press).