Robert Yusef Rabiee is a scholar and teacher of nineteenth-century U.S. literature and culture. He is an Assistant Professor in the Intellectual Heritage Program at Temple University, where he teaches general education courses in the humanities, political philosophy, and multiethnic U.S. literature. Dr. Rabiee was born in Lexington, KY, where there are very few other Iranians and many, many horses. He currently lives in South Philadelphia.