Contributors
- Contributors
Dorothy Z. Baker is Professor of English at the University of Houston. She has written extensively on women’s literature in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and on translation studies. Her most recent book is a translation of Christine Buci-Glucksmann’s The Madness of Vision (2012).
Anna Battigelli is Professor of English at the State University of New York, Plattsburgh. She is the author of Margaret Cavendish and the Exiles of the Mind (1998) and has published articles on a broad range of topics in Restoration and eighteenth-century literature and culture.
Caroline Bowden is currently Research Fellow of the Who were the Nuns? project at Queen Mary, University of London, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. Having received her doctorate from the University of London’s Institute of Education in 1996, Bowden previously worked as Research Fellow on The Health of the Cecils, c. 1550-c. 1660 project at Royal Holloway, University of London, funded by Wellcome. In 2001, she established the research network History of Women Religious of Britain and Ireland with Carmen Mangion and launched a corresponding website in 2006.
Fiona Brideoake is Assistant Professor of Literature at American University. She has completed a book-length study, The Ladies of Llangollen: A Queer Romantic History, and published on queer historiography, Bluestocking feminism, Jane Austen, and Shakespearean filmmaking. Her current project focuses on issues of sexuality and domesticity in Harriet Bowdler’s 1807 The Family Shakespeare.
Lorrayne Carroll is Associate Professor of English and a member of the Women and Gender Studies Faculty at the University of Southern Maine. She has published studies of early American captivity narratives with a focus on the intersections of gender, identity, and rhetorical form. She currently is working on the figure of the hermit in the early Republic. Most recently she has been writing a book with coauthor Joseph Medley on master narratives of economic development policy constructed by the International Monetary Fund, World Bank, and World Trade Organization in light of the counternarratives posed by people most affected by those policies. [End Page 293]
Linda Byrd Cook is Professor of English at Sam Houston State University. She has published on several Southern women writers, in particular, contemporary American author Lee Smith. Cook’s most recent publications include her monograph, Dancing in the Flames: Spiritual Journey in the Novels of Lee Smith (2009), “A Spiritual Journey: An Interview with Lee Smith” in The Southern Quarterly, “Reclamation of the Feminine Divine: ‘Experiencing the Spirit Directly’ in Lee Smith’s Novels” in Humanities in the South, “The Emergence of the Sacred Sexual Mother in Lee Smith’s Oral History” in Southern Literary Journal, and “Censorship of ‘Literary Pornography’” in Academic Exchange Quarterly.
Frances E. Dolan is Professor of English at the University of California, Davis. She is the author of True Relations: Reading, Literature, and Evidence in Seventeenth-Century England (2013), Marriage and Violence: The Early Modern Legacy (2008), Whores of Babylon: Catholicism, Gender, and Seventeenth-Century Print Culture (1999, 2005), and Dangerous Familiars: Representations of Domestic Crime in England, 1550-1700 (1994). She has published numerous articles on early modern Catholicism and anti-Catholicism in collections and journals, including essays on Catholic women’s biographies (in English Literary Renaissance), why nuns are found funny (in the Huntington Library Quarterly), the gendering of Catholic space (in the Journal of Interdisciplinary History), attempts to blame Catholics for the Great Fire of London (in the Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies), Catholicism as the undead (in The Impact of Feminism in English Renaissance Studies, ed. Dympna Callaghan), and the relationship between truth claims and confessional identity (in Redrawing the Map of Early Modern English Catholicism, ed. Lowell Gallagher). She is currently working on Time and Terroir: A Northern California Renaissance, which creates a dialogue between early modern England and early twenty-first-century Northern California regarding bees, orchards and hedgerows, soil amendment, and the idea of local food.
Susan Celia Greenfield is Associate Professor of English at Fordham University and the author of Mothering Daughters: Novels and the Politics of Family Romance, Frances Burney to Jane Austen (2002). Her articles on eighteenth-century English literature have appeared in numerous journals including...
