Megan Kate Nelson is a lecturer in History and Literature at Harvard University. She earned her PhD in American Studies at the University of Iowa in 2002, and has held tenure-track positions at Texas Tech University and California State University, Fullerton. She is the author of Ruin Nation: Destruction and the American Civil War (Georgia 2012) and Trembling Earth: A Cultural History of the Okefenokee Swamp (Georgia, 2005).
