About C19
C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists, the first academic organization dedicated to nineteenth-century American literary studies, was founded in 2008 by the Penn State Center for American Literary Studies.
Ongoing expansions, critiques, reformulations, historicizations, and theorizations of nineteenth-century American literary and cultural productions have occupied much of the critical energies of the field in recent years. Beyond providing a forum for and encouragement of developments in literary studies already operating in the field, C19 seeks to develop innovative methodologies for the intra- and inter-disciplinary study of the long American nineteenth century (1789–1914). By inaugurating C19 with a conference called "Imagination: A New Century," we aim to animate conversations about imagination, textual production, aesthetics, community formation, and ethical democracy. The conference will also launch an electronic journal, itself called C19, which will be the forum for disseminating, debating, and implementing these new methodologies.
C19 Advisory Board
| Nancy Bentley | University of Pennsylvania |
| Hester Blum | Penn State University |
| Anna Brickhouse | University of Virginia |
| Christopher Castiglia | Penn State University |
| Russ Castronovo | University of Wisconsin |
| Jeffory Clymer | University of Kentucky |
| Patricia Crain | New York University |
| Paul Giles | University of Oxford |
| Sean Goudie | Penn State University |
| Jay Grossman | Northwestern University |
| Glenn Hendler | Fordham University |
| Virginia Jackson | Tufts University |
| Amy Kaplan | University of Pennsylvania |
| David Kazanjian | University of Pennsylvania |
| Rodrigo Lazo | University of California, Irvine |
| Robert Levine | University of Maryland |
| Christopher Looby | UCLA |
| Eric Lott | University of Virginia |
| Dana Luciano | Georgetown University |
| Meredith McGill | Rutgers University |
| Dana Nelson | Vanderbilt University |
| Samuel Otter | University of California, Berkeley |
| Donald Pease | Dartmouth College |
| Robert Reid-Pharr | Graduate Center, City University of New York |
| Xiomara Santamarina | University of Michigan |
| Martha Nell Smith | University of Maryland |
| John Stauffer | Harvard University |
| Shelley Streeby | University of California, San Diego |
| Priscilla Wald | Duke University |
| Cindy Weinstein | California Institute of Technology |
| Ivy Wilson | Northwestern University |
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