Notes on Contributors
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James E. Bishop is managing editor of ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment at the University of Nevada at Reno.
David A. Boruchoff has published widely on the literature and historiography of early modern Europe and America, with particular attention to religion and the history of ideas.
Scott Casper, professor of history at the University of Nevada, Reno, is the author most recently of Sarah Johnson’s Mount Vernon: The Forgotten History of an American Shrine (Hill and Wang, 2008).
Russ Castronovo is Jean Wall Bennett Professor of English and American Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. His most recent book is Beautiful Democracy: Aesthetics and Anarchy in a Global Era.
Katy Chiles is an assistant professor of English at the University of Tennessee. Her essay on Samson Occom and Phillis Wheatley drawn from this research is forthcoming in PMLA. Her work has also appeared in or is forthcoming in American Literature and Nineteenth-Century Theatre and Film.
Michael Drexler’s edition of Leonora Sansay’s Secret History, or the Horrors of St. Domingo and Laura recently appeared from Broadview Press. He is co-editor (with Ed White) of Beyond Douglass: New Perspectives on Early African American Literature (Bucknell, forthcoming 2008).
Elizabeth Ferszt is visiting assistant professor of English at Ferris State University. She studies the work and historical situation of Anne Bradstreet.
Susan Imbarra to is associate professor of English at Minnesota State University– Moorhead. She is a recent contributor to the Oxford Handbook of Early American Literature and author of Traveling Women: Narrative Visions of Early America.
Carla Mulford, the Founding President of the Society of Early Americanists, is in the process of completing her book Benjamin Franklin and the Ends of Empire.
Jennifer Mylander is an assistant professor of English at San Francisco State University. Recent work on English transatlantic book cultures is forthcoming in the Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies and the collection Connected by Books, edited by James Raven and Leslie Howsam.
Jeffrey H. Richards, of Old Dominion University, is the author most recently of “The Adventures of Emmera, the Transatlantic Novel, and the Fiction of America” (Early American Literature 42.3, 2007), and co-editor, with Sharon M. Harris, of the forthcoming Mercy Otis Warren: Selected Letters (Univ. of Georgia). [End Page 533]
Phillip Round is an associate professor of English and American Indian and Native Studies at the University of Iowa. His latest book, The Impossible Land: Story and Place in California’s Imperial Valley (University of New Mexico, 2008), explores the intersections of landscape and storytelling in a southwest borderland.
Alison Searle is a historian of the Dissenting tradition. She is currently affiliated with Queen Mary College, London University.
Christobal Silva , associate professor of English at Florida State University, is associate editor of The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation. His essay in this issue derives from his current book project, Miraculous Plagues: An Epidemiology of New England Narrative, 1620–1721.
Ezra Tawil is an associate professor at Columbia University, and the author of The Making of Racial Sentiment: Slavery and the Birth of the Frontier Romance (Cambridge, 2006).
Nancy Vogeley is professor emerita of Spanish at the University of San Francisco. Among her studies of early nineteenth-century Mexico is La literature manuscrita: Un manuscrito inédito de poesías de José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi, an unknown poetry manuscript by Lizardi which she has edited.
Shevaun Watson is an assistant professor of rhetoric in the Department of English at the University of South Carolina. Her current book project, Testimony and Transformation, examines the role of testimonial discourse within slave and free black communities, 1729–1829.
Ed White, associate professor of English at the University of Florida, is the author of The Backcountry and the City: Colonization and Conflict in Early America (University of Minnesota, 2005).
Gretchen Woertendyke, assistant professor of English at the University of South Carolina, studies the role of the Haitian Revolution in the formation of transatlantic gothic fantasy. [End Page 534]
