Notes on Contributors
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joanna brooks is an associate professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin. Her book American Lazarus: Religion and the Rise of African-American and Native American Literatures won the 2004 MLA William Sanders Scarborough Prize. She has recently completed an edition of the collected writings of Samson Occom.
susan castillo is John Nichol Professor of American Literature at Glasgow University. Her most recent publications include Colonial Encounters in New World Writing: Performing America (Routledge, 2005) and a coedited companion volume (with Ivy Schweitzer) to The Literatures of Colonial America: An Anthology (Blackwell, 2005).
sara crosby, an American Antiquarian Society NEH Fellow, studies antebellum print culture. Her current book project examines the figure of the female poisoner in American literature between 1840 and 1864.
elizabeth dillon is associate professor of English and American Studies at Yale University. Her first book, The Gender of Freedom: Fictions of Liberalism and the Literary Public Sphere, won the Heyman Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Publication in the Humanities from Yale in 2003. She is currently at work on a second book project, “New World Drama: Theatre of the Atlantic, 1660–1850.”
lisa m. gordis is associate professor of English at Barnard College, where she teaches courses in early American literature and directs the First-Year Seminar Program. She is the author of Opening Scripture: Bible Reading and Interpretive Authority in Puritan New England (2003), and is currently working on a book about early Quaker theories of language. She serves on the editorial board of Early American Literature.
sandra m. gustafson is the author of Eloquence Is Power: Oratory and Performance in Early America (2000) and is currently at work on “Forms of Democracy: Political Letters in the United States, 1815–1837.” She teaches English at Notre Dame and is the book review editor for this journal.
philip gould, professor of English at Brown University, is working on a study of The Loyalist Revolution. He recently has been named director of the newly formed American Seminar at Brown.
david kazanjian is associate professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. His primary field is transnational American literary and historical studies through the mid-nineteenth century. In addition to his 2003 monograph The [End Page 395] Colonizing Trick (Minnesota), he has coedited (with David L. Eng) Loss: The Politics of Mourning (California, 2003) and (with Shay Brawn, Bonnie Dow, Lisa Maria Hogeland, Mary Klages, Deb Meem, and Rhonda Pettit) The Aunt Lute Anthology of U.S. Women Writers, Volume One: Seventeenth through Nineteenth Centuries (Aunt Lute Books, 2004).
dawn keetley, assistant professor in the English Department at Lehigh University, is an active scholar in the fields of women’s studies and nineteenth-century American literature. She coedited Public Women, Public Words, a three-volume documentary chronicle of American feminism, and is currently at work on The Othello Complex: Men’s Homicidal Jealousy in Nineteenth-Century America.
jennifer l. leader is an assistant professor of pre-1900 American literature at Duquesne University. She is completing a manuscript that reexamines the American typological tradition as it is traced through the lineage of Jonathan Edwards and reappropriated by the poets Emily Dickinson and Marianne Moore.
etta madden, professor of English at Missouri State University, has written on discourses of American religious communities, such as the Puritans, the Quakers, and the Shakers, and on rhetoric of science in the early Republic. An edited collection of essays, Eating in Eden: Food and American Utopias (Univ. of Nebraska Press, forthcoming 2006), reflects her current interest in food studies.
tiffany potter, lecturer in English at the University of British Columbia, studies transatlantic ideas of gender and race in the eighteenth century. This essay emerges from a three-year research program funded by a grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
jason shaffer, assistant professor of English at the United States Naval Academy, studies early American theater and drama. His book Transatlantic Performances: Politics and the Early American Theatre is forthcoming from the University of Pennsylvania Press.
timothy sweet is professor of English at West Virginia University. His recent work in ecocriticism includes American Georgics: Economy and Environment in Early American Literature (2002).
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