Notes on Contributors
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mitchell breitwieser teaches American literature at the University of California in Berkeley. His most recent publications on American literature are “Pacific Speculations: Moby-Dick and Mana” (Arizona Quarterly, Spring 2011) and “All on an American Table: Cotton Mather’s Biblia Americana” (American Literary History, Spring 2013). He is at work on a book focusing on Graham Greene’s The Third Man as an early Cold War narrative. Two pieces of this project have appeared in The Hopkins Review, “Materializing Calloway: The Sorrows of Occupation in Graham Greene’s The Third Man” (Summer 2008) and “The Third Man: Zone/Frontier; Gangster Films and Westerns” (Winter 2012).
michael cody is associate professor of English at East Tennessee State University in Johnson City, Tennessee. He is the author of Charles Brockden Brown and the Literary Magazine: Cultural Journalism in the Early American Republic (McFarland, 2004). Among other current projects, he is coeditor of The Literary Magazine and Other Writings, 1803–1807, which is volume 3 of The Charles Brockden Brown Electronic Archive and Scholarly Edition (Bucknell UP, forthcoming 2015).
daniel diez couch is a PhD candidate in English at UCLA. He is currently completing a dissertation on the relationship between prize competitions and literary style in late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American literature.
andy dorsey is an associate professor of English at California State University, Stanislaus. His current book project, tentatively titled “Hypocritical Identities: Conversion and Sentiment in American Literature and Culture,” examines hypocrisy in seventeenth-century New England and its influence on the sentimental novel of the early national period.
carolyn eastman is associate professor of History at Virginia Commonwealth University. She is also the author of the prizewinning A Nation of Speechifiers: Making an American Public after the Revolution (U of Chicago P, 2009) as well as articles in Gender and History, the William and Mary Quarterly, and other journals. She is currently developing two book manuscripts: one entitled “The Strange Genius of Mr. O.: Oratory, the Media, and Fame in Early America” on an eccentric nineteenth-century oratorical celebrity named James Ogilvie, and the second entitled “Learning to See: Gender and Travel in the Atlantic World of Print.”
matthew garrett teaches English and American studies at Wesleyan University. He is the author of Episodic Poetics: Politics and Literary Form after the Constitution (Oxford UP, 2014) and is writing a book about the history and ethics of reading since the sixteenth century. [End Page 841]
oana godeanu-kenworthy teaches in the American studies program at Miami University, Ohio. In 2012 she was a Kluge Postdoctoral Fellow at the Library of Congress, in Washington, DC, with a project on transatlantic literary narratives of political ideologies in the nineteenth century. She is currently finishing a book manuscript on representations of American democracy and republicanism in nineteenth-century British North American fiction in English.
scott paul gordon is professor of English and chair of the Department of English at Lehigh University. His first projects focused on seventeenth- and eighteenth-century British literature: The Power of the Passive Self in English Literature, 16401770 (Cambridge UP, 2002) and The Practice of Quixotism: Postmodern Theory and Eighteenth-Century Women’s Writing (Palgrave, 2006). His current project, pieces of which have appeared in the William and Mary Quarterly, the Journal of Moravian History, and Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, explores religion, social ambition, and patriotism in colonial and Revolutionary Pennsylvania.
katie halsey is senior lecturer in eighteenth-century literature at the University of Stirling. Her publications include a monograph, Jane Austen and Her Readers, 1786–1945 (Anthem, 2012), and the edited volumes The History of Reading (Routledge, 2010), coedited with Shafquat Towheed and Rosalind Crone; The History of Reading, volume 2, Evidence from the British Isles (Palgrave MacMillan, 2011), coedited with W. R. Owens; and The Concept and Practice of Conversation in the Long Eighteenth Century (Cambridge Scholars, 2008), coedited with Jane Slinn. She is also the author of various articles on Jane Austen, Mary Russell Mitford, Margaret Oliphant, the history of reading, and eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature and print culture, more broadly.
lucia hodgson is an assistant professor of English and codirector of the Glasscock Critical Childhood Studies Seminar at Texas A&...
