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Dr. Windell鈥檚 research and teaching emphasize ethnic and transnational US literatures and history. Her book,听Transamerican Sentimentalism and Nineteenth-Century US Literary History听(Oxford UP 2020), examines how writers of color and women writers used genre as a听tool to navigate the racialized and gendered violence of the nineteenth-century Americas. Her current project uses nineteenth-century US naval writings as a connective thread to link the Middle East, Pacific, Caribbean, and US-Mexico borderlands. In so doing, it highlights US imperialism as a reactive force鈥攐ne shaped by the decisions, actions, and sovereignties of Pacific Islanders, Caribbean pirates, Dominican and Mexican women, Muslim immigrants, and Tejano Confederates. Her work has appeared in journals including听J19,听Studies in American Fiction, and听American Literary Realism, and she co-edited, with Jesse Alem谩n, a special issue of听English Language Notes听on 鈥淟atinx Lives in Hemispheric Context鈥� (56.2).