Mark Madigan is a professor of English at Nazareth University in Rochester, New York. He is the historical editor of the Willa Cather Scholarly Edition of Youth and the Bright Medusa, editor of three volumes by Dorothy Canfield Fisher, co-editor of Will Thomas’s memoir The Seeking, and author of numerous essays on American writers, including Cather, Charles Chesnutt, Nella Larsen, and Richard Wright. He was a Fulbright Scholar in Ljubljana, Slovenia, and a Fulbright Specialist in Zadar, Croatia.