Stephanie Foote is the Jackson and Nichols Chair of English at West Virginia University. She is the author of Regional Fictions: Culture and Identity in Nineteenth-Century American Literature (2001), The Parvenu's Plot: Gender, Culture, and Class in the Age of Realism (2014), and the editor, with Elizabeth Mazzolini, of Histories of the Dustheap: Waste, Material Cultures, Social Justice (2012). She is the co-founder and co-editor of Resilience: A Journal of the Environmental Humanities. Her articles have appeared in numerous edited collections and journals, such as American Literature, American Literary History, Signs, The Henry James Review, College Literature, Pedagogy, J19, and PMLA. She is currently working on The Art of Waste, a project about waste and literature.