Monika M. ElbertMonika M. Elbert is Professor of English and Distinguished University Scholar at Montclair State University, New Jersey. Former editor of the Nathaniel Hawthorne Review, she has published extensively on Hawthorne (Encoding the Letter A: Gender and Auhority in Hawthorne's Early Fiction (1990), two editions of The Scarlet Letter, and numerous essays on Hawthorne and other American nineteenth-century authors). Recent books include co-edited collections: Romantic Education in Nineteenth-Century American Literature: National and Transatlantic Contexts (2015); Haunting Realities: Naturalist Gothic and American Realism (2017); Anglo-American Travelers and the Hotel Experience in Nineteenth-Century Literature (2017). Read More Read Less