Liminality, Hybridity, and American Women's Literature

Kristin J. Jacobson is Professor of American Literature, Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and American Studies at Stockton University, USA. Her book, Neodomestic American Fiction, examines contemporary domestic novels. She has published in Genre, Legacy, Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, and edited collections. Her current book analyzes the American adrenaline narrative. Kristin Allukian is Assistant Professor of American Literature at the University of South Florida, USA. Her research areas include American literature to 1900, women's literature, and feminist digital humanities. Her current book project examines the relationship between women, work, and labor systems in postbellum American literature. Rickie-Ann Legleitner is Assistant Professor of English and Co-Coordinator of Women and Gender Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Stout, USA. Her research and teaching interests include American literature and culture, women writers, and identity and disability studies. Her current book project examines intersectionality in Künstlerromane by American women writers (1850-1930). Leslie Allison is Assistant Director of the Temple University Writing Center, USA. Her primary research and teaching areas include twentieth-century American literature and women's literature, and her work has appeared in Studies in the Novel. She is currently working on a monograph about postwar women writers' representations of adolescent girlhood.