Melissa J. Homestead is Susan J. Rosowski Associate Professor of English and program faculty in women¿s and gender studies at the University of Nebraska¿Lincoln. She is the author of American Women Authors and Literary Property, 1822¿1869. Guy J. Reynolds is a professor of English and the director of the Cather Project at the University of Nebraska¿Lincoln. He is the author of Willa Cather in Context: Progress, Race, Empire and Apostles of Modernity: American Writers in the Age of Development (Nebraska 2008).