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Luis R. Corteguera is associate professor of history at the University of Kansas. His current book projects are a case study on the power of images and the Inquisition in sixteenth-century Mexico and a study of "talking" images in the Spanish Empire.

Elizabeth Maddock Dillon is associate professor of English at Northeastern University. She is the author of The Gender of Freedom: Fictions of Liberalism and the Literary Public Sphere (Stanford UP, 2004) and is currently completing a manuscript titled "New World Drama: Theatre of the Atlantic World, 1660–1830" that will be published by Duke University Press.

Tracy Fessenden is associate professor of religious studies at Arizona State University. She is the author of Culture and Redemption: Religion, the Secular, and American Literature (Princeton UP, 2007) and is at work on a new book on mourning and metanarrative in American religion.

Jared Hickman is assistant professor of English at Johns Hopkins University. He is currently working on a book manuscript entitled "Black Prometheus: Political Theologies of Atlantic Slavery."

Michael W. Kaufmann is associate professor of English at Temple University. He is the author of Institutional Individualism: Conversion, Exile, and Nostalgia in Puritan New England (Wesleyan UP, 1998), and is currently working on "Post-Secular Professions," a book about religion, the secular, and the formation of professional academic disciplines.

Stephanie Kirk is assistant professor of Spanish at Washington University in St. Louis. Her book Convent Life in Colonial Mexico was published by the University of Florida Press in 2007.

Justine S. Murison is assistant professor of English at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Her current book project explores the political, literary, and religious quandaries posed by studies of the nervous system in the early nineteenth century.

Sarah Rivett is assistant professor of English at Princeton University. She is the author of The Science of the Soul in Colonial New England (U of North Carolina P, forthcoming), which explores intersections between the scientific revolution and the development of Protestantism from the 1630s to the 1740s.

Wendy Raphael Roberts, a PhD candidate in English at Northwestern University and predoctoral McNeil Center for Early American Studies Fellow, specializes [End Page 209] in early American poetry and religion. She is writing her dissertation, "Do You Hear What I Hear? Revival Poetry and the Formation of the Evangelical Ear in Eighteenth-Century America."

Jennifer Snead is assistant professor of English at Texas Tech University. She is currently at work on a book about early Methodism, popular literacy, and print culture in eighteenth-century Britain.

Jordan Alexander Stein teaches in the English department at the University of Colorado at Boulder and holds a 2009–10 NEH Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Library Company of Philadelphia. [End Page 210]

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