Jennifer Putzi is Associate Professor of English and Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies at the College of William and Mary, Virgina. She is the author of Identifying Marks: Race, Gender, and the Marked Body in Nineteenth-Century America (2006), the editor of Elizabeth Stoddard's Two Men (2008), and the coeditor of The Selected Letters of Elizabeth Stoddard (2012, with Elizabeth Stockton).