Jana L Argersinger Editor

Jana L. Argersinger is coeditor of the journal Poe Studies: History, Theory, Interpretation at Washington State University. As an independent scholar, she has published the coedited essay collection Hawthorne and Melville: Writing a Relationship and articles on nineteenth-century American women writers.

Phyllis Cole is professor of English at Penn State University, Brandywine, and is the author of Mary Moody Emerson and the Origins of Transcendentalism: A Family History, as well as essays on feminist themes in the transcendentalist movement.