The girl who would later take on the pen name Nellie Bly and help launch a new kind of investigative journalism was born Elizabeth Jane Cochran on May 5, 1864 in Cochran's Mills, Pennsylvania.

Walt Whitman's ego seemed impervious to criticism, and his self-promotion — writing anonymous reviews of his own book — suggests total self-assurance. There was, however, one man whose praise ...

Richard Millington teaches courses in American literature, with a focus on writers of the 19th century and on 20th-century multiethnic literature. He has written on Nathaniel Hawthorne, Willa Cather ...

Gothic novels, disability in literature, pedagogy, colonial American witchcraft trials, American literature, and transatlantic literary studies. Bridget M. Marshall's most recent book is "Industrial ...

Dr. Sean J. Kelly teaches courses in American literature, literary theory, and composition. His primary research interests focus on nineteenth-century American literature and culture. Dr. Kelly has ...