REGIS M. FOX is an associate professor of English at Florida Atlantic University. Her primary areas of research include 19th-century American literature, feminist theory, and African American literary and cultural studies. Her second book, Wit Yo Crazy Self: Readings of Slavery, Madness, and Performance, is forthcoming from Ohio State University Press in summer 2027. Bringing discourses such as disability and slavery studies to bear on one another, the book interrogates how Black performances of madness are encoded in literary texts.
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