Sarah E. Chinn teaches English at Hunter College, CUNY. A member of the Radical Teacher editorial collective, she's the author of four books: Technology and the Logic of American Racism: A Cultural History of the Body as Evidence (2000), Inventing Modern Adolescence: The Children of Immigrants in Turn-of-the-Century America (2009), and Spectacular Men: Race, Gender, and Nation on the Early American Stage (2017); and Disability, The Body, and Radical Intellectuals in the Literature of The Civil War and Reconstruction (2024). She’s the co-editor with Brigitte Fielder of J19: The Journal of 19th Century Americanists.