Maria Seger is assistant professor of English at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, where she specializes in nineteenth-century US literature, Black and US ethnic literatures, and critical race and ethnic studies. Her work has appeared in Nineteenth-Century Literature, Callaloo, and Studies in American Naturalism.
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