About the Author
Antoine Traisnel is assistant professor of English and comparative literature at the University of Michigan. He is author of Hawthorne: Blasted Allegories, coauthor with Thangam Ravindranathan of Donner le change: L’impensé animal, and coeditor with Thomas Constantinesco of Littérature et politique en Nouvelle-Angleterre. He is translator of Robert Montgomery Bird’s gothic novel Sheppard Lee.