Stacey Margolis, Professor of English at the University of Utah, is the author of Fictions of Mass Democracy in Nineteenth-Century America (2015) and The Public Life of Privacy in Nineteenth-Century American Literature (2005). From 2016-2022 she co-edited J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists with Elizabeth Duquette. She is currently working on a book about the conservative origins of American literature.