Sarah Fredericks is a 19th c. Americanist with specializations in rhetoric & writing, multimodality, and writing center studies. She earned a Ph.D. from the University of Arizona and M.A. and B.A. from Auburn University at Montgomery. She edited Critical Insights: Lord of the Flies (2017), and her recent publications address Mark Twain’s western insults, teeth in Poe’s short fiction, and travesties of Romeo and Juliet in 19th and early 20th c. American newspapers. She has also published on the works of such various authors as Edgar Allan Poe, Edith Wharton, Jane Austen, Maya Angelou, and Michael Cunningham, and she has contributed to volumes on Feminism, LGBTQ literature, and the American novel. She is currently writing a book on Mark Twain’s anger and rhetoric.