Notes on Contributors
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a. owen aldridge, professor emeritus of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Illinois, is the oldest active scholar of early American letters. Pioneering hemispheric and transatlantic inquiries into American literature, Aldridge’s Early American Literature: A Comparatist Approach (1982) was one of the prescient books of that decade. An expert in the writings of Franklin, Paine, Voltaire, and Shaftesbury, he turned in the latter part of his career to comparative investigations of Japanese and Western literatures.
kristina bross is an associate 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.
matthew p. brown is an assistant professor in the Center for the Book and the English Department at the University of Iowa. His essays on early American literature and book studies have appeared in the American Quarterly and Studies in the Literary Imagination. He is currently writing a book on reading habits and the devotional steady sellers of early New England.
michelle burnham is associate professor of English at Santa Clara University. She is currently working on a study of the economics and aesthetics of dissent in the seventeenth century.
vincent carretta, professor of English at the University of Maryland, is the author of two books on verbal and visual eighteenth-century political satire, as well as the editor of Unchained Voices: An Anthology of Black Authors in the English-Speaking World of the Eighteenth Century, and authoritative editions of the works of Quobna Ottobah Cugoano, Olaudah Equiano, Ignatius Sancho, and Phillis Wheatley. His essay on Francis Williams appeared in a recent issue of EAL.
max cavitch is assistant professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania.
kathleen donegan is a Ph.D. candidate in the American Studies program at Yale University, and recipient of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation’s Charlotte Newcombe Fellowship. She is currently in residence at the Henry E. Huntington Library, where she is working on her dissertation “Cast Away in the New World: Catastrophe and the Writing of Colonial Settlement.”
joseph fichtelberg, associate professor of English at Hofstra University, has just published Critical Fictions: Sentiment and the American Market, 1780–1870.
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 [End Page 215] England (2003) and is currently working on a study of Quaker theories of language.
philip f. gura edited EAL from 1989 to 1999 and currently serves as advisory editor. UNC Press has just published his C. F. Martin and His Guitars, 1796–1873, a study of the early American music trade, and he is completing Jonathan Edwards, America’s Evangelical for Hill and Wang. He is William S. Newman Distinguished professor of American Literature and Culture at UNC-Chapel Hill.
frank kelleter is chair of American Studies at Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany. His publications include a book on death in modern literature, Die Moderne und der Tod (1997); a volume on Louis Farrakhan’s Nation of Islam, Con/Tradition (2000); and a study of competing concepts of rationality in the American Enlightenment, Amerikanische Aufklärung (2002). He is the author of articles on Puritan missionaries, the poetry of the early republic, Herman Melville, Philip Roth, and other American authors.
sydney j. krause of Kent State University’s English Department is the co-editor of the Kent State University Press edition of the Works of Charles Brockden Brown.
christopher looby, professor of English at UCLA, is the author of Voicing America: Language, Literary Form, and the Origins of the United States (1996) and editor of The Complete CivilWar Journal and Selected Letters of Thomas Wentworth Higginson (2000). In 2003 he was elected to the governing council of the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture.
ross j. pudaloff teaches at Wayne State University, where he is currently director of Graduate Studies for the Department of English. His essay, “‘Why Do You Call Me to Teach the Court?’: The Authority of Anne Hutchinson” recently appeared in Women as Sites of Culture (2002).His current project concerns the place of Jews...
