David Anthony is Professor and Director of the School of Literature, Writing, and Digital Humanities at SIU Carbondale. He received his PhD at the University of Michigan. He is the author of Paper Money Men: Commerce, Manhood, and the Sensational Public Sphere in Antebellum America, and various articles on antebellum literature in venues such as ALH, American Literature, Early American Literature, The Yale Journal of Criticism and elsewhere. Anthony has also published a novel, entitled Something for Nothing.