Klara Stephanie Szlezák Editor

Melissa M. Bender is a senior lecturer and the associate director of Writing Across the Curriculum at the University of California, Davis. Her monograph, Dysfunctional Family Values: Nurturing the Neoliberal Self in U.S. Memoir, will be published in 2020.Her research interests include visual and material rhetoric, writing studies, and American cultural studies.

Klara Stephanie Szlezák is a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer in American Studies at the University of Passau, Germany. She is the author of "Canonized in History": Literary Tourism and 19th-Century Writers’ Houses in New England. Her research interests include museum studies, visual culture studies, and the history of immigration.