Contributors
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Kelly L. Bezio is Assistant Professor of English at Texas A & M University, Corpus Christi. Her current book project, titled Communicable Disease in the American Literary Imagination, studies how early American authors used communicable disease to portray community formation. In addition to health humanities, her research interests include genre, narrative, and mythology; nationhood studies; the history of chemistry; and biopolitics.
Elliott Bowen is an historian of medicine and public health. He earned a PhD from Binghamton University in December, 2013, and is currently at work transforming his dissertation (entitled “Mecca of the American Syphilitic: Doctors, Patients, and Disease Identity in Hot Springs, Arkansas, 1890–1940”) into a publishable historical monograph.
Jeffrey C. Cottrell is a PhD candidate in English at Northeastern University. His research interests include Native American literature, Caribbean Literature, and critical spatial theory. His dissertation, “Revolutionary Countergeographies: Contested Spaces and Geographic Writing in Antebellum America 1790–1861,” explores how the textual production of revolutionary spaces enabled displaced groups to develop their own concepts of freedom, self-determination, and belonging in Antebellum America.
Tiffany DeRewal is a PhD candidate at Temple University in Philadelphia, PA. She researches and teaches in the fields of early and nineteenth-century American literature and cultural studies, with emphases in the cultural histories of science and religion in the United States. Her dissertation sets nineteenth-century American medical discourse into conversation with broader cultural discourses about the dead body, examining the discursive formation of the corpse as a medical, spiritual, and literary object.
Sandra M. Gilbert has published eight collections of poetry and among prose books Wrongful Death, Death’s Door, Rereading Women, and, most recently, The Culinary Imagination: From Myth to Modernity. She is currently at work on a new collection of poems, “Saturn’s Meal,” and on “Eating Words,” an anthology of food writing coedited by Roger Porter. With Susan Gubar, she is coauthor of The Madwoman in the Attic and other works: the two received the 2012 Award for Lifetime Achievement from the National Book Critics Circle.
Debbie Horsfall is an Associate Professor in the School of Social Sciences and Psychology at the University of Western Sydney, Australia. She has over twenty-five years’ experience researching with vulnerable groups using creative and inclusive research methods. Her current research includes using arts based research to understand the lived experiences of both caring for people dying at home and people recovering from mental illness. [End Page 493]
Zach Hutchins is Assistant Professor of English at Colorado State University, where he teaches courses on early American literature and culture. His first book, Inventing Eden: Primitivism, Millennialism, and the Making of New England (Oxford UP 2014), traces a history of paradisiacal aspirations as they evolved on both sides of the Atlantic in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Hutchins is also the author of a dozen essays that have appeared in journals such as ELH, Shakespeare, The New England Quarterly, and Early American Literature.
Diana Jefferies is a lecturer in the School of Nursing and Midwifery at the University of Western Sydney, Australia. She has twenty-five years experience in acute mental health nursing and academic qualifications in medieval English literature. Her current research program integrates her nursing and literary backgrounds to examine depictions of mental health issues in literary and historical contexts.
David B. Morris recently retired as University Professor at the University of Virginia, after twenty years as a self-employed writer. He has published numerous essays and two prize-winning books in eighteenth-century studies—The Religious Sublime (1972) and Alexander Pope: The Genius of Sense (1984). The Culture of Pain (1991) won a PEN prize and has been translated into German, Spanish, and Japanese. Recent work includes a book of narrative nonfiction, Earth Warrior (1995), Illness and Culture in the Postmodern Age (1998), a multi-edited collection in pain medicine, Narrative, Pain, and Suffering (2005), and a work-in-progress entitled Eros and Illness.
Justine S. Murison is Associate Professor of English at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of The Politics of Anxiety in Nineteenth-Century American Literature (Cambridge UP, 2011) and is currently at work on a book about religious privacy, secularity, and slavery...
