Mark W. Van Wienen is an associate professor of English at Northern Illinois University and a former student of Cary Nelson. He is the author of Partisans and Poets: The Political Work of American Poetry in the Great War (1997) and editor of Rendezvous with Death: American Poems of the Great War (2002). His articles have appeared in journals including American Literature, American Literary History, Modern Fiction Studies, and American Quarterly. His current research explores socialist traditions in American literature, especially between 1890 and 1940 and in the work of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Upton Sinclair, and W. E. B. Du Bois.