Bonnie Carr O’Neill ( B.A., Hamilton College; M.A. and Ph. D., Washington University in St. Louis) specializes in American literature before 1900. Her teaching interests include women’s writing, American Romanticism, the history of authorship, and cultural studies. Her book in progress studies the formation of literary celebrity in the nineteenth-century U.S., its effects on authors and their works, and its uses and misuses for the public. She has presented her research at conferences and seminars in the U.S. and the U.K., and she has published articles on Emerson, Whitman, and Fanny Fern.
