How to Put Away Childish Things: Children’s Cultural Production and the Hermeneutics of Care

Karen Sánchez-Eppler is L. Stanton Williams 1941 Professor of American Studies and English at Amherst College, and was the 2020 Distinguished Scholar in Residence at the American Antiquarian Society. She was elected to AAS membership in 2005. Dr. Sanchez-Eppler is the author of Touching Liberty: Abolition, Feminism, and the Politics of the Body (1993) and Dependent States: The Child’s Part in Nineteenth-Century American Culture (2005). She is co-editor with Cristanne Miller of The Oxford Handbook of Emily Dickinson (2022). She is one of the founding coeditors of the Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth and past president of C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists. She is president of the board of the Porter-Phelps Huntington Museum in Hadley, Massachusetts.