Teresa A. Goddu is Associate Professor of English at Vanderbilt University. She received her B.A. from Yale University (1986) and her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania (1991). She is a specialist in nineteenth-century American literature and culture. She is the author of Gothic America: Narrative, History, and Nation (Columbia UP, 1997) and is currently completing a book project titled, “Selling Antislavery: Corporate Abolition and the Rise of Mass Culture in Antebellum America,” which studies the extensive print, material, and visual culture the antislavery movement produced in making its appeal. Her research and teaching in the nineteenth century focus on slavery and antislavery, race and American culture, the history of the book and print culture, material and visual culture, and genre studies.