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  • Notes on Contributors

david j. carlson, associate professor of English at California State University, San Bernardino, is the author of Sovereign Selves: American Indian Autobiography and the Law (Univ. of Illinois Press, 2006). He is currently completing a chapter on autobiography for an edited collection on the historical interpretation of primary sources (forthcoming from Routledge in 2008), as well as beginning to work on a second book project that explores American Indian writing and storytelling as a form of legal discourse.

joseph chaves is assistant professor at the School of English Language and Literature, University of Northern Colorado. He is currently working on a book examining polite letters in a transatlantic and comparative context.

philip gould, professor of English at Brown University, is working on a study of loyalist writing during the Revolution. He is a recent contributor to the Cambridge Companion to the African American Slave Narrative.

robert hilliker is a Ph. D. candidate in Comparative Literature at Brown University. Having recently completed his dissertation project, a study of the figure of custom in the writings of North American colonists in the seventeenth century, he has turned his attention to the connections between ethnographic writing and popular conceptions of the family in the early Republic.

heidi oberholtzer lee is assistant professor of English at Messiah College. Her articles on food in literature have been recently published in Early American Studies and the Journal of Narrative Theory.

janet moore lindman is an associate professor in the History Department at Rowan University. Her research interests include early American, religious, and women’s history. Her forthcoming book, Bodies of Belief: Baptist Community in Early America, will be published by the University of Pennsylvania Press.

etta m. madden, professor of English at Missouri State University, conducts interdisciplinary research and teaches on American personal narratives, [End Page 639] women’s literature, and communal utopias. She is the co-editor of Eating in Eden: Food and American Utopias (Univ. of Nebraska Press, 2006) and Bodies of Life: Shaker Literature and Literacies (Greenwood, 1998).

jeff osborne, assistant professor of English at Murray State University, is presently working on the British and American ethics of feeling in the eighteenth century.

matthew pethers is a lecturer in American Intellectual and Cultural History at the University of Nottingham. He is working on a book titled “Print Culture and the Public Sphere in Late Eighteenth-Century America.”

jeffrey h. richards is professor of English and director of graduate studies at Old Dominion University and the author of Drama, Theatre, and Identity in the American New Republic (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2005). The essay in this number of EAL is part of a project called “The Fiction of America.”

sarah rivett is assistant professor of English at Washington University, St. Louis. Her work examines the intersections between science, religion, and literature from the Puritan quest for knowledge of elect souls to revivals in the age of the Enlightenment and mesmerism in antebellum reform literature. Rivett’s current book project, The Science of the Soul in Colonial New England, examines the role of science in pious practice, demonstrating the centrality of converted women and Native Americans to a long, transatlantic history of Enlightenment empiricism.

colin wells is associate professor of English at St. Olaf College. He is the author of The Devil and Doctor Dwight: Satire and Theology in the Early American Republic (Univ. of North Carolina Press, 2002). [End Page 640]

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