Site Co-Director: Kate Adams is Associate Professor of English at Tulane University, where she holds the Kimmerling Chair in Women’s Literature. She co-edits Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers, and has served as guest editor for special issues of Legacy (with Sandra Zagarell and Caroline Gebhard, 2016) and Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature (2009) that focus on intersections of race and gender in women’s writing. She is author of Owning Up: Privacy, Property, and Belonging in US Women’s Life Writing (Oxford 2009). Her essays about early US literature and culture have appeared in numerous edited collections and journals including American Literary History, J19, Arizona Quarterly, Hypatia, and ESQ.