Notes on Contributors
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Ralph Bauer is an associate professor of English and comparative literature at the University of Maryland, College Park. His recent publications include Creole Subjects: Empires, Texts, Identities, ed. with José Antonio Mazzotti (U of North Carolina P for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, 2009), and various articles that have appeared in such journals as American Literary History, PMLA, and Revista Iberoamericana. He is currently completing a book project entitled “The Alchemy of Conquest: The Secrets of Nature and Colonial Knowledge in the Early Americas.”
Lindsay Dicuirci is a postdoctoral teaching fellow at the University of Michigan. Her book project, “History’s Imprint: The Colonial Book and the Writing of American History, 1790–1855,” considers how antiquarian collecting and historical publishing shaped perceptions of colonial history in the nineteenth century.
Paul Downes teaches at the University of Toronto. He is writing a book on aspects of critical human rights theory and American literature. He has essays forthcoming in American Literary History and the Canadian Review of American Studies.
Emily García is assistant professor of English at Northeastern Illinois University. She is currently working on a book manuscript, “Novel Diplomacies,” that examines the relationship between literature and revolution across the Americas.
Teresa A. Goddu is director of American studies at Vanderbilt University. She is currently completing a book on antislavery print culture.
Camryn Hansen is an independent scholar and writer whose most recent academic work includes “A Changing Tale of Truth? Charlotte Temple and Textual History,” a contextual essay in the Norton Critical Edition of Susanna Rowson’s Charlotte Temple.
Melissa J. Homestead is Susan J. Rosowski Associate Professor of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Author of American Women Authors and Literary Property, 1822–1869 (Cambridge UP, 2005) and a chapter on “The Beginnings of the American Novel” in the Oxford Handbook of Early American Literature, she is currently working on an edition of Catharine Sedgwick’s New York novel of manners Clarence; or, A Tale of Our Own Times for Broadview Press and an essay on “The Shape of Catharine Sedgwick’s Career” for the Cambridge History of American Women’s Writing.
Cedrick May is the author of Evangelism and Resistance in the Black Atlantic, 1760–1835 (U of Georgia P, 2008), and is currently at work on a book manuscript about [End Page 741] the trope of the talking book and the metaphysics of presence in early black Atlantic writing.
Carla Mulford will soon complete her book “Benjamin Franklin and the Ends of Empire,” which traces Franklin’s attitudes about trade and populations in the context of the growing number of debates about what it meant to be both liberal and British during the eighteenth century. With coeditor Jeffrey Weinstock, she is also putting together a book in the MLA Approaches to Teaching series on teaching Franklin’s autobiography.
Joseph Rezek received his PhD in English from UCLA in 2009. He is currently the Barra Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at the McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania and assistant professor of English at Boston University. An essay from his current book project, “Tales from Elsewhere: Fiction and Literary Ambition in the Anglophone Periphery, 1800–1850,” is forthcoming in ELH.
William J. Scheick holds the J. R. Millikan Centennial Professorship at the University of Texas at Austin. His books include The Half-Blood: A Cultural Symbol in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction, Design in Puritan American Literature, and Authority and Female Authorship in Colonial America.
Jason D. Solinger is an assistant professor of English at the University of Mississippi. He recently completed a book manuscript on the cultural work performed by representations of the gentleman. His essay is a part of a new project on British cosmopolitanism.
Abram van Engen, a PhD candidate at Northwestern University, will be starting as an assistant professor in early American literature at Trinity University. His dissertation examines Puritan views of sympathy, persuasion, and community in early New England.
Joanne van der Woude is an assistant professor in the English Department and in the Program in History and Literature at Harvard. She is finishing her first book, “Becoming Colonial: Indians, Immigrants, and Early...
