Notes on Contributors
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Kristina Bross is associate professor of English and American studies at Purdue University. She is the author of Dry Bones and Indian Sermons: Praying Indians in Colonial America (Cornell UP, 2004) and coeditor (with Hilary Wyss) of Early Native Literacies in New England: A Documentary and Critical Anthology (U of Massachusetts P, 2008).
Mary C. Carruth is the director of the Sarah Isom Center for Women at the University of Mississippi, Oxford, and adjunct assistant professor of English. She edited Feminist Interventions in Early American Studies (UP of Alabama, 2006), which includes her essay, "Between Abjection and Redemption: Mary Rowlandson's Subversive Corporeality."
Michael Drexler is an associate professor of English at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. He is coeditor (with Ed White) of Beyond Douglass: New Perspectives on Early African-American Literature (Bucknell UP, 2008) and he and White are now completing a monograph to be entitled "The Traumatic Colonel; Or, The Burr of American Literature."
Tamara Harvey of the English Department at George Mason University is the author of Figuring Modesty in Feminist Discourse Across the Americas, 1633-1700 (Ashgate, 2008).
Larry Kutchen currently is completing two projects: an essay about the impact of the British invasion of revolutionary Saint Domingue on the development of Romantic poetry in England and the United States for a projected collection on the Haitian Revolution and early America; and a book, "The Dark Fields of the Republic: Pastoral and Georgic Literature in America in The Long Eighteenth Century."
Chad Luck is an assistant professor of English at California State University, San Bernardino. He is currently at work on a study of affect and ownership in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century American fiction.
Justine S. Murison is assistant professor of English at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is completing a book that unveils a new genealogy of anxiety to explain how the urgent politics of the nervous system transformed into personalized emotional valences by the end of the nineteenth century.
Christopher N. Phillips teaches English at Lafayette College. He has recently completed a book manuscript on the uses of epic in early US culture.
Sarah Rivett is an assistant professor of English at Washington University. Her [End Page 451] book, The Science of the Soul in Colonial New England, is forthcoming from the Omohundro Institute of Early American Studies.
Siân Silyn Roberts is an assistant professor of American literature at Queens College, CUNY. This article derives from her current book project, "The Gothic Enlightenment: American Fiction and the Limits of Sympathy, 1790–1860."
Marion Rust is an assistant professor of English at the University of Kentucky. Her first book, Prodigal Daughters: Susanna Rowson's Early American Women, was recently published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American Culture/ UNC Press. Susanna Rowson's "Charlotte Temple": A Norton Critical Edition is forthcoming in fall 2009.
Ivy Schweitzer is professor of English and chair of the Women's and Gender Studies Program at Dartmouth College. Schweitzer's Perfecting Friendship: Politics and Affiliation in Early American Literature (U of North Carolina P) appeared in 2006.
Scott Slawinski is an assistant professor at Western Michigan University whose edition of Sukey Vickery's writings, Emily Hamilton and Other Writings, is forthcoming from the University of Nebraska Press in 2009. His current book project is a biography and critical introduction to the works of novelist Sally Sayward Barrell Keating Wood.
Bryan Waterman is associate professor of English and American literature at New York University and author of Republic of Intellect: The Friendly Club of New York City and the Making of American Literature (Johns Hopkins UP, 2007). His writing on Charles Brockden Brown and the Friendly Club has appeared in Early American Literature, American Literary History, The William and Mary Quarterly, and the online journal common-place.
Karen Weyler is an associate professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She is writing a book about authorial and editorial collaboration in the early national period, particularly with regard to the textual productions of nonelite individuals.
Ed White teaches at the University of Florida, and is the author of The Backcountry and the City: Colonization and Conflict in Early America (U...
