Shirley Samuels is currently Chair of the Department of the History of Art at Cornell as well as Professor of English and American Studies. Her books include FACING AMERICA: ICONOGRAPHY AND THE CIVIL WAR (Oxford University Press, 2004); COMPANION TO AMERICAN FICTION, 1780-1865 (editor) (Blackwell, 2004); ROMANCES OF THE REPUBLIC: WOMEN, THE FAMILY, AND VIOLENCE IN THE LITERATURE OF THE EARLY AMERICAN NATION (Oxford University Press, 1996); and THE CULTURE OF SENTIMENT: RACE, GENDER, AND SENTIMENTALITY (editor) (Oxford University Press, 1992).
