Bio
Kelly Ross is the author of Slavery, Surveillance, and Genre in Antebellum United States Literature (Oxford UP, 2022) and the editor of Poe Studies. She specializes in 19th-century American literature and African American literature, with secondary interests in Early and 20th-century American literature, detective fiction, poetry, and American Studies. Her work has appeared in PMLA, the Oxford Handbook of Edgar Allan Poe, Leviathan, the Cambridge Companion
to Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Politics, and American Literature in Transition, 1820-1860.
Education
PhD, English, The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Professional Experience
Distinguished Visiting Professor, Department of English, U.S. Air Force Academy (2024 − 2025)
Associate Professor of English, Rider University (2020 − present)