Center for Race and Ethnicity
at Rutgers University Edlie Wong
English
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Edlie Wong is an assistant professor of English at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick where she teaches nineteenth-century African American and American literature. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley, and has articles forthcoming on the recently recovered writings of Julia C. Collins, Gilded Age journalist Nellie Bly’s circumnavigation of the globe and the representation of loss in the work of Colombian sculptor Doris Salcedo. She is currently at work on a book Fugitive and Foreigner: Cultures of Travel in the Black Atlantic, which contextualizes the writings of fugitive slaves within Anglo-American legal history to investigate the shifting meaning of mobility, resistance and freedom in the literatures of travel and antebellum travel culture.
