Posted inArticles Issue 9 2020
About Fionnghuala Sweeney and Bruce Baker
Fionnghuala Sweeney is Reader in American and Black Atlantic Literature at Newcastle University. Her research and teaching encompass 19th-century US Studies, African American literature and culture, literary ecologies, Black Atlantic studies, and Afromodernism. She has published on Frederick Douglass; Afromodernisms; the US and Cuban slave narrative; Ireland, Britain, and slavery; travel writing; visual culture; and Paul Robeson, amongst other things.
Bruce E. Baker is Reader in American History at Newcastle University, where his research and teaching interests centre on aspects of the American South in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He has published on historical memory, labour history, Reconstruction, lynching, the cotton trade, and the underground economy of New Orleans. He is a past editor of the journal American Nineteenth Century History.