Cathryn Halverson is senior lecturer in English and American Literature at Soedertoern University. She is the author of Faraway Women and The Atlantic Monthly, which won the Thomas J. Lyon Book Award from the Western Literature Association Playing House in the American West: Western Women's Life Narratives, 1889-1987 and Maverick Autobiographies: Women Writers and the American West, 1902-1936 . Her scholarship has appeared in College Literature, Western American Literature, Arizona Quarterly, Journal X, and American Studies.
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"Halverson is the preeminent scholar on Juanita Harrison, an important, increasingly well-known but under-researched African American writer. Her sensitive and deeply researched book draws on a rich body of Black feminist scholarship on archival silences to create a detailed account of a woman who worked hard to control the narratives of her life by publishing her own carefully curated account." - Kate Dossett, author of Radical Black Theatre in the New Deal "Halverson has produced a book that is not only scholarly and rigorous but also a joy to read, as Harrison and her world come alive on the page. Her focus on the work and experiences of a Black female writer and traveler in the last nineteenth and twentieth centuries makes an important contribution to African American and travel writing studies." - Gary Totten, author of African American Travel Narratives from Abroad: Mobility and Cultural Work in the Age of Jim Crow