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Marcy J. Dinius received her B.A. from the University of Notre Dame (1997)
and M.A. (1999) and Ph.D. (2005) from Northwestern University.
She specializes in American literature and culture to 1865,
with particular interests in visual, print, and material cultures.
A Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania’s
Penn Humanities Forum for 2005–06, she is at work on
her book, The Camera and the Pen: American Literature in the
Daguerreian Age. This study analyzes the close relationship
of antebellum literature and early photography, taking up
writings by Nathaniel Hawthorne,
Herman Melville, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe,
Edgar Allan Poe, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman, and such
less-familiar authors as Nathaniel Parker Willis, T. S. Arthur,
Fanny Fern, and Ned Buntline. She is also in the early stages
of developing a
book-length project on African-American radical writing in
the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Essays from her research
and teaching are forthcoming in ESQ, Poe Studies, and the
Routledge Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography.
Professor Dinius teaches courses on the literature and print
and visual cultures of the American Renaissance, American
literature and culture from the colonial period to the present,
and
African-American literature.
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