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  • Notes on Contributors

kristina bross is an assistant professor of English and American Studies at Purdue University. Her book Dry Bones and Indian Sermons: Praying Indians and Colonial American Identity is forthcoming from Cornell University Press.

j. patrick cesarini teaches English at the University of South Alabama. His 2003 dissertation is entitled “Reading New England’s Mission: Indian Conversion and the Ends of Puritan Rhetoric in the Seventeenth Century.”

sara crosby is a doctoral student at the University of Notre Dame. She is writing a dissertation on female fiends in early American literature.

jane donahue eberwein of Oakland University is well known to Early American Literature’s readers as a scholar of women’s poetry and Puritan poetics. She is currently working on a study of long narrative poems from early America.

lisa m. gordis is associate professor of English at Barnard College. She is the author of Opening Scripture: Bible Reading and Interpretive Authority in Puritan New England (2003), and is currently working on a study of Quaker theories of language.

lisa logan is associate professor of English and director of Women’s Studies at the University of Central Florida.

etta madden is an associate professor of English at Southwest Missouri State University. In addition to analyzing autobiographies, journals, and other lifewriting, she is engaged with the language of science and foodways in the early Republic.

mark b. mcwilliams teaches at the U.S. Naval Academy, where he pursues his interests in nineteenth-century American novels, southern writing, and food.

anne myles is assistant professor of English at the University of Northern Iowa. Her research focuses on dissent and desire in early America, with a particular focus on Quaker writings. Readers of Early American Literature will recall her provocative article on the Quaker martyr Mary Dyer two years ago.

heidi oberholtzer is a doctoral student in the English department at the University of Notre Dame. She is currently working on a dissertation provisionally titled “Appetite and Desire in Early American Travel Writing.”

gordon sayre is associate professor of English at the University of Oregon. His article on the Natchez Massacre appeared in Early American Literature 37:3, and he is working on a book project entitled The Indian Chief as Tragic Hero.

mark stein holds a Junior Professorship for Theories of Non-European Literatures and Cultures at Potsdam University. Currently he is working on Diasporas of the Mind, a book-length project on spaces of the other in the long eighteenth century. [End Page 549]

timothy sweet is associate chair of the English Department at West Virginia University. He is author, most recently, of American Georgics: Economy and Environment in Early American Literature.

david thomson is a research scholar associated with the Department of English at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. He is interested in renovating the literary historiography of seventeenth-century New England Puritanism.

bryce traister is an associate professor of English at the University of Western Ontario. He is currently working on a book-length project investigating the interaction of gender and piety in pre-1800 New England culture.

craig white of the Department of Literature and Humanities at the University of Houston at Clear Lake is writing a book on northeastern Algonquian oral culture.

hilary e. wyss, associate professor of English at Auburn University, is the author of Writing Indians: Literacy, Christianity, and Native Community in Early America (Massachusetts, 2000). She is currently working on a book manuscript on Native education, 1750–1830 and serves as a member of Early American Literature’s editorial board. [End Page 550]

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