Barbara Ryan Author

Barbara Ryan is associate professor in the University Scholars Programme at the National University of Singapore. She is the author of Love, Wages, Slavery and a coeditor of Reading Acts.

Milette Shamir is senior lecturer in English and American studies at Tel Aviv University, Israel. She is the author of Inexpressible Privacy: The Interior Life of Antebellum American Literature and coeditor of Boys Don’t Cry? Rethinking Narratives of Masculinity and Emotion in the U.S.