Notes on Contributors
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Jason Berger is an English Ph.D. student at the University of Connecticut specializing in nineteenth-century American literature and literary/cultural theory.
Patrick M. Erben teaches early American literature at the University of West Georgia. He is currently completing a book manuscript for publication with the Omohundro Institute, tentatively entitled A Harmony of the Spirits: Multilingualism, Translation, and the Language of Community in Early Pennsylvania.
Stephen Fredman is professor of English at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of three books of criticism, the most recent of which is A Menorah for Athena: Charles Reznikoff and the Jewish Dilemmas of Objectivist Poetry. His latest study, Contextual Practice: Assemblage and the Erotic in Postwar Poetry and Art, has just been completed.
Eric A. Goldman, a lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Connecticut at Storrs, writes on early nineteenth-century American fiction.
Zachary Hutchins is a Ph.D. student in early American studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Jeffrey Insko, an assistant professor of English at Oakland University, specializes in nineteenth-century American literature.
Sabine Klein, a Ph.D. student in American studies at Purdue University, is interested in comparative colonial studies, particularly treating New Netherlands, New England, and the Native Nations.
Joseph J. Letter is currently a post-graduate fellow in the Department of English at Tulane.
Nancy J. Peterson is an associate professor of English and American studies at Purdue University. She is the author of Against Amnesia: Contemporary Women Writers and the Crises of Historical Memory (Pennsylvania, 2001), and she is currently editing a collection of interviews with the Spokane-Coeur d’Alene writer Sherman Alexie, which will be published by University Press of Mississippi.
Peter P. Reed is assistant professor of early American literature at the University of Mississippi. His study of charismatic outcasts in early American and circum- Atlantic theatre, Rogue Performances, is forthcoming from Palgrave Macmillan in 2009.
Jennifer Schell is a specialist in the cultural history of American writing and an assistant professor at Wichita State University.
Stephen Shapiro’s recent work includes The Culture and Commerce of the Early American Novel: Reading the Atlantic World-System (Penn State, 2008). [End Page 763]
Zabelle Stodola (who publishes as Kathryn Zabelle Derounian-Stodola) is currently working on a study of the uses of captivity on the nineteenth-century lecture circuit. Her monograph The War in Words: Reading the Dakota Conflict through the Captivity Literature (Univ. of Nebraska Press) will appear in spring 2009.
Colin Wells teaches English at St. Olaf College. The author of The Devil and Doctor Dwight: Satire and Theology in the Early American Republic (Chapel Hill, 2002), he is currently at work on a study of American poetry and politics from 1765 to 1815.
Daniel E. Williams recently published Liberty’s Captives, an anthology of early national captivity narratives. He continues his work on transgression. [End Page 764]
