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Edlie Wong

Associate Professor

Edlie Wong teaches and researches nineteenth-century American and African American literatures, law and literature, the black Atlantic, critical race studies, and gender studies.

Prior to joining the University of Maryland in 2010, Wong was an Associate Professor at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.  

Wong's work has appeared in American Literary History, American Literature, African American Review, Victorian Literature and Culture, and Prose Studies in addition to anthologies. She is the author of two books, entitled Neither Fugitive nor Free: Atlantic Slavery, Freedom Suits, and the Legal Culture of Travel (New York University Press, 2009) and Racial Reconstruction: Chinese Exclusion, Black Inclusion, and the Fictions of Citizenship (under contract NYU Press) and co-editor of a scholarly edition of George Lippard’s The Killers (Penn Press, 2014).

Wong is a Fall 2012 recipient of the University of Maryland Research and Scholarship Award. She also received the National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 2010-11 and the Presidential Fellowship for Teaching Excellence at Rutgers in 2009. 

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