Amanda Claybaugh is an Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. She focuses on the Victorian novel, the postbellum US novel, and the trans-Atlantic nineteenth century. In addition to editing Uncle Tom's Cabin and Mansfield Park, she has also published articles on Charles Dickens and temperance reform, William Dean Howells and the US Civil War, and Anne Brontë and narrative theory. Her first book, Cross Purposes: Literary Ambition and Social Reform in the Trans-Atlantic Novel, is forthcoming from Cornell University Press, and she is at work on a new project about literary responses to the Civil War and Reconstruction. In 2004, she was awarded the university's Presidential Teaching Prize.