Kay Yandell is an assistant professor of American literature at the University of Wisconsin. She specializes in early and nineteenth-century American literature, and literature by women of color. She is currently completing her first book, Telegra
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Kay Yandell is an assistant professor of American literature at the University of Wisconsin. She specializes in early and nineteenth-century American literature, and literature by women of color. She is currently completing her first book, Telegraphies: Metaphysics, Machines, and Empire in Nineteenth-Century American Literature. This book explores the ways that the invention of Samuel Morse's telegraph changed prose and plot structures in American literature.
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