Brigitte Fielder

Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Brigitte (she/her) is an Associate Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is the author of Relative Races: Genealogies of Interracial Kinship in Nineteenth-Century America (Duke University Press, 2020) and co-editor of Against a Sharp White Background: Infrastructures of African American Print (University of Wisconsin Press, 2019). She has written a number of journal articles and chapters on early and nineteenth-century literature, particularly focusing on African American women writers and African American children’s literature, as well as some public-facing essays for venues such as Avidly (a channel of the Los Angeles Review of Books) and the New York Times Book Review. In addition to her recovery work with TBL, Brigitte currently co-edits J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Ameericanists, serves as Vice President/President-Elect of the Children’s Literature Association, and is a co-coordinator of Just Teach One—Early African American Print, a digital recovery project hosted by the American Antiquarian Society.