Brigitte Bailey

Brigitte Bailey is Professor of English at the University of New Hampshire. Her book American Travel Literature, Gendered Aesthetics, and the Italian Tour, 1824-1862 (Edinburgh UP, 2018) explores tourism, transatlantic literary interactions, and connections between literature and the visual arts. She has published articles on 19th-century American writings, has guest-edited a special issue on Margaret Fuller for the journal Nineteenth-Century Prose, and has co-edited two books: Transatlantic Women: Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers and Great Britain, with Beth Lueck and Lucinda Damon-Bach, and Margaret Fuller and Her Circles, with Katheryn Viens and Conrad Edick Wright. And she has served as President of the Margaret Fuller Society. Her current project is on antebellum urban writings in the U.S.