She is the author of Identifying Marks: Race, Gender, and the Marked Body in Nineteenth-Century America (2006) and the editor of Elizabeth Stoddard’s second novel, Two Men (2008), originally published in 1865. Elizabeth Stockton is an assistant professor of English at Southwestern University. Her work, which primarily focuses on law and literature in antebellum America, has appeared in The New England Quarterly and African American Review.