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Dr. Allison Giffen is Professor in the Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Affiliated Faculty in the English Department at Western Washington University where she specializes in nineteenth-century US literature and culture with an emphasis in disability, race, and childhood. She has published in such academic journals as Children’s Literature Association Quarterly, Legacy, Women’s Studies, and ATQ and recently co-edited Saving the World: Girlhood and Evangelicalism in Nineteenth-Century Literature. She is the co-editor with Lucia Hodgson of The Biopolitics of Childhood in the Long American Nineteenth Century (forthcoming from Routledge).
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Dr. Lucia Hodgson is a Researcher in the Department of Cultural Sciences at Linnaeus University in Växjö, Sweden. She is also an Affiliated Member of the Linnaeus University Centre for Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies and a Visiting Researcher at the Swedish Emigrant Institute. She has been awarded a three-year Humanities and Social Sciences Project Grant (2024-2027) from the Swedish Research Council for her project, New Sweden Texas: Swedish Settlers and Slavery in Nineteenth-Century Texas. Dr. Hodgson is the author of two books: Raised in Captivity: Why Does America Fail Its Children? (Graywolf Press) and Taking Liberties: Slavery and the American Seduction Narrative (under contract with SUNY Press). Her essays have appeared in Early American Literature, Studies in American Fiction, Journal of Juvenilia Studies, and The Children’s Table: Childhood Studies and the New Humanities (University of Georgia Press). She is the co-editor with Allison Giffen of The Biopolitics of Childhood in the Long American Nineteenth Century (forthcoming from Routledge).