Contributors
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Bruce Burgett is the Professor and Director of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at the University of Washington Bothell, and adjunct faculty in the English Department at the University of Washington Seattle. He is most recently the coeditor of Keywords from American Cultural Studies.
Vincent Carretta is the author of Olaudah Equiano, the African: Biography of a Self-Made Man (University of Georgia Press, 2005; Penguin, 2007). With Ty Reese, he is completing an edition of the correspondence of the eighteenth-century African missionary Philip Quaque, to be published by the University of Georgia Press.
Granville Ganter is an associate professor at St. John’s University in Queens, N.Y. His interests include early national oratory, role playing, and performance, and he is currently working on an interpretive biography of Red Jacket entitled Sagoyewatha and the Renewal of Tradition.
Sandra M. Gustafson, associate professor at the University of Notre Dame, recently published “American Literature and the Public Sphere” in American Literary History.
Philip F. Gura, whose recent book American Transcendentalism: A History was a finalist for the National Book Critics Award in nonfiction, is completing the bicentennial history of the American Antiquarian Society.
Sharon Halevi is the Director of the Women’s Studies Program at the University of Haifa, Israel. Her current book project, Revolutionary Selves, examines the narrative articulations of personal identity in the early republic.
Deborah Kelly Kloepfer, author of The Unspeakable Mother: Forbidden Discourse in Jean Rhys and H. D., teaches at the State University College at Buffalo. She recently completed an essay on women’s commonplace books as artifacts of mourning and is at work on a study of transculturated seventeenth- and eighteenth-century women who refused “redemption” from Indian captivity.
Edward Larkin is currently working on a book about loyalism and empire in the early United States. In the last year he has published essays in Novel, Commonplace. org and Modern Intellectual History that reflect his ongoing interest in these topics.
Laura Leibman of the Department of English at Reed College is the editor of Indian Converts (University of Massachusetts, 2008) and is currently working on a book on the Jewish community in eighteenth-century Newport, Rhode Island. [End Page 233]
David Harris Sacks is Richard F. Scholz Professor of History and Humanities at Reed College and a Life Member of Clare Hall, University of Cambridge. He has recently received a Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities and is currently on leave from Reed and in residence at Clare Hall, Cambridge completing a book with the working title To Restore the Distracted Globe: Richard Hakluyt and His World.
Derrick Spradlin is an assistant professor of English at Freed-Hardeman University. He has recently had articles published in Essays in Arts and Sciences and Early Modern Literary Studies, and his current research interests include hermits in early America and the frontier in the works of Poe.
Teresa Toulouse’s most recent book is The Captive’s Position: Female Narrative, Male Identity, and Royal in Authority, which came out from the University of Pennsylvania Press in 2007. She teaches at the University of Colorado at Boulder and is currently writing an essay on Cotton Mather and the Roman poet Lucan. [End Page 234]
