Jennifer Cognard-Black, an assistant professor of English at St. Mary's College of Maryland, is the author of Narrative in the Professional Age: Transatlantic Readings of Harriet Beecher Stowe, George Eliot, and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps and a coauthor of Advancing Rhetoric. Elizabeth MacLeod Walls teaches in the Department of English at Nebraska Wesleyan University and serves as the executive director of a Lilly Endowment grant supporting continuing education in Nebraska.