Ethelene Whitmire is a professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison affiliated with the departments of African American Studies, German, Nordic, and Slavic, and Gender & Women’s Studies. She received an American-Scandinavian Foundation fellowship and a Lois Roth Endowment grant to support this project. She was also a 2016–2017 Fulbright Scholar and visiting professor at the University of Copenhagen’s Center for Transnational American Studies
