Mary Hale

Mary B. Hale is Assistant Director of Scholarly and Undergraduate Programs at the Newberry Library in Chicago. She holds a PhD from the University of Illinois at Chicago, where she wrote a dissertation titled "Democratic Conventions: The Form of Politics in the Gilded Age." She has won numerous awards, including a fellowship from the Massachusetts Historical Society to support her work on Henry Adams. Her work has appeared in journals such as American Literature and the New Americanist . Her...See more

Mary B. Hale is Assistant Director of Scholarly and Undergraduate Programs at the Newberry Library in Chicago. She holds a PhD from the University of Illinois at Chicago, where she wrote a dissertation titled "Democratic Conventions: The Form of Politics in the Gilded Age." She has won numerous awards, including a fellowship from the Massachusetts Historical Society to support her work on Henry Adams. Her work has appeared in journals such as American Literature and the New Americanist . Her current project is a consideration of the political fiction of Ellen Glasgow in the post-Populist South. See less