Contributors
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Michael C. Amrozowicz teaches literature at The State University of New York at Albany. He writes on Adam Smith, James Boswell, and the Scottish Enlightenment. His current projects include work on masculinity and self-interest in Adam Smith’s writing and lectures, and a study of Smith’s understanding of the development of the novel.
Tonya Howe is Associate Professor of Literature and Languages at Marymount University, where she teaches a variety of classes from composition and research methodologies to film, the eighteenth-century British novel, and early modern theater history. She is committed to a technologically informed critical pedagogy, and has published and presented on eighteenth-century popular performance, disability, and digital humanities.
Claire Boulard Jouslin is Assistant Professor at the University Paris 3-Sorbonne Nouvelle. She is the author of Presse et socialisation féminine en Angleterre de 1690 à 1750: Conversations à l’heure du thé (L’Harmattan, 2000) and Jardins et Paysages en Angleterre au XVIIIe siècle (PUR, 2001). She has published approximately twenty articles in various peer-reviewed journals. Her research focuses mainly on the long eighteenth-century periodical press and its relations to gender, cross dressing, women’s education, public opinion, and editorial strategies.
Andrew McConnell Stott is Professor of English and Director of the Honors College at the University at Buffalo, SUNY. He works on British popular culture from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries. [End Page 128]
Amanda T. Perry holds an MA in English Literature from the University of British Columbia and is currently working toward her PhD in Comparative Literature at New York University. She concentrates on the comparative study of slave societies in the Americas and Afro-diasporic literature, working in English, French, Spanish, and Portuguese. Her current projects involve the international reception of the Haitian Revolution.
Robin Runia is Assistant Professor of English at Xavier University of Louisiana. Her research explores the intersections between the body, gender, and genre in the eighteenth century, and she is currently at work on a monograph elucidating the role of religion and spirituality in mid-century women’s writing.
Kristina Straub is Professor of Literary and Cultural Studies at Carnegie Mellon University where she teaches eighteenth-century British studies, theatre and performance studies, gender studies, and sexuality studies. She is the author of Divided Fictions: Fanny Burney and Feminine Strategy (UP of Kentucky, 1986), Sexual Suspects: Eighteenth-Century Players and Sexual Ideology (Princeton, 1991), and Domestic Affairs: Intimacy, Eroticism, and Violence Between Servants and Masters in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Johns Hopkins UP, 2009). She is currently at work on a new project entitled “Shakespearean Performance and the Sexual Imaginary of 18th-Century London Theatre.” [End Page 129]
