Mollie Barnes is an Assistant Professor at the University of South Carolina Beaufort, where she teaches American literature and composition. She specializes in nineteenth-century transatlanticism. Her current book projectÑÔUnifying Ambivalence: Transatlantic Histories, Italian TemporalitiesÕÑstudies ÔproblemÕ texts written by Anglo-American expatriates during the Risorgimento and the Unification of Italy. ÔUnifying AmbivalenceÕ imagines new paradigms for transatlantic reading practices by tracing parallels between our own historiographic dilemmas and revisions and those present in nineteenth-century expatriate texts.
SSAWW conference participants revealed refreshingly complex critical interpretations of this year’s theme, that went beyond the post-colonial contexts where so many of us first encountered them.