Associate Professor of English
U of South Carolina, Beaufort
Biographical Sketch: Mollie Barnes is Associate Professor of English at the University of South Carolina Beaufort and Vice President of the Margaret Fuller Society. She has published nearly a dozen articles and book chapters on nineteenth-century women writers. Her book—Paper Heroines: How Women Reformers Wrote One Another’s Lives in the Sea Islands, 1838–1902 (University of South Carolina Press, forthcoming 2025)—studies the ways women documented their own and one another’s lives in diaries and biographies, focusing especially on the intersection of gender and race. The National Endowment for the Humanities supported this research with a 2023 Summer Stipend.