Notes on Contributors
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Adam R. Beach is an associate professor of English at Ball State University. His research revolves around the issues of nationalism, colonialism and slavery in the literature of the long eighteenth century in England, with a particular emphasis on the Restoration and early eighteenth-century periods. He has most recently written about literature related to the failed seventeenth-century English colony in Tangier, Morocco and about British writings on slavery in the non-British world. His current research focuses on British depictions of slavery in North Africa and the Mediterranean, on the fate of African and European slaves in the region, and on the best ways to think about comparative slave institutions in the early modern world.
Michael Genovese is an assistant professor at the University of Kentucky. He is currently working on a manuscript about how eighteenth-century literature brought together the rhetoric of sympathy and of economic profit to resist the rise of individualism. His work has appeared in or is forthcoming in The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, Eighteenth-Century Studies, and The Age of Johnson.
Sally Hatch Gray is an assistant professor of German literature and culture at Mississippi State University. Her research includes work on eighteenth-century German literature and philosophy, aesthetics, anthropology, and political theory. Focusing mainly on works by Georg Forster, Immanuel Kant, and Friedrich Schiller, her research has appeared in New Perspectives on the Eighteenth Century, a journal of the Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, and in Open Inquiry Archive, an independent journal of scholarly papers on culture."
Alan Charles Kors (B.A., Princeton; M.A. and Ph.D., Harvard) is Henry Charles Lea Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania, where he specializes in European intellectual history of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, with a special research interest in the relationships between orthodox and heterodox thought in France after 1650. He is the author of several books and various articles on French intellectual history and was editor-in-chief of the Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment (Oxford, 2003). He has taught seminars at the Folger Institute and the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes at the University of Paris, and he was a Fellow of the Davis Center for Historical Studies, at [End Page 518] Princeton University. He served on the National Council for the Humanities of the NEH, and he is a recipient of the National Humanities Medal.
Daniel Larlham is a Lecturer at Yale University's Theater Studies Program. His scholarly work has appeared in TDR/The Drama Review, Theater (Yale), Theatre Journal, and Theatre Survey. His research interests include theories of acting, theatre and philosophy, and South African theatre and performance.
Feisal G. Mohamed is a Professor of English at the University of Illinois. His most recent book is Milton and the Post-Secular Present: Ethics, Politics, Terrorism (Stanford, 2011).
Kathryn Steele is a Lecturer at the University of Oklahoma. She received Ph.D. (2008) and M.A. (2003) degrees from Rutgers University and M.A. and B.A. degrees from the University of Colorado. Her research interests include literary history and media ecology, with a focus on histories of reading. She is currently working on a project examining the readers of Samuel Richardson's Clarissa. She has published on Clarissa and the history of reading in Eighteenth-Century Fiction.
Clint Stevens received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His scholarship focuses on William Blake and has been published in The European Romantic Review. He is Assistant Professor of English at Kaskaskia College in southern Illinois where he lives on a farm with his wife and two children.
Kathryn Temple, J.D., Ph.D., is Associate Professor and Chair of the Georgetown University English Department, specializing in eighteenth-century British law, literature, and culture. Her current book project, Loving Justice, takes up the relationship between poetics, affect, and representations of justice, while her first book, Scandal Nation, investigated literary scandals created where law, literature and authorship intersected in eighteenth-century Britain.
Nathalie Wolfram is a Ph.D. candidate in English at Yale University. Part of her dissertation, "Novel Play: Gothic Performance and the Making of Eighteenth Century Fiction," will...
