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Brenna M. Casey

Brenna M. Casey

Brenna M. Casey is a visiting assistant professor of English at Wake Forest University. She specializes in American literature and visual culture. Her current book project tracks the surveillance of national borders and citizen bodies during the first hundred years of photography. Her essays have appeared in Ploughshares, Hyperallergic, Bitch, and more.  icon

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