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Blevin Shelnutt is an Assistant Professor of English at Vassar College, affiliated with the English Department and the Global Nineteenth-Century Studies Program. Her research focuses on early and 19th-century American literature, material culture, and the history of books as physical objects. She holds a BA from Davidson College and an MA and PhD from New York University.
Her interdisciplinary work examines literary aesthetics within material contexts of textual production and cultural power. Currently, she is completing a book manuscript titled *Marketplace Aesthetics: Literary Art and the Publishing Revolution in Nineteenth-Century New York City*, exploring the relationship between literary aesthetics and New York's publishing industry during the 1840s–50s. Her research has been supported by fellowships from Winterthur Museum, the Library Company of Philadelphia, the American Antiquarian Society, and Rare Book School.
Shelnutt teaches courses such as *American Bestsellers*, *Literature of the American Renaissance*, and *Popular Women Writers and the Work of Art*, intersecting with programs in American Studies, Global Nineteenth-Century Studies, and Women, Feminist, and Queer Studies. Her publications include contributions to *American Literary History*, *Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers*, and the Norton Critical Edition of *The Coquette*.
