Contributors
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Jamie M. Bolker expects to defend her dissertation and receive her PhD in American Literature from Fordham University in 2018. Her work examines the relationship between selfhood and getting physically lost in early American and Atlantic literature. She has also written about race and animal studies.
Alberto Gabriele, a graduate of New York University’s Comparative Literature Department, is the author of Reading Popular Culture in Victorian Print: Belgravia and Sensationalism (2009). He has taught at Tel Aviv University, was a visiting scholar at Jadavpur University, Kolkata, and was a visiting fellow at the University of New South Wales, the University of Melbourne, and the University of Sydney. He has recently completed two monographs on Precinema and the Literary Imagination, Volume I: From the Baroque to the Romantic Age and Volume II: The Nineteenth Century Novel. He is also the editor of a collection of essays, Sensationalism and the Genealogy of Modernity: A Global Nineteenth Century Perspective.
Jeffrey Ryan Harris is a transnational intellectual historian of France and French colonialism and a PhD candidate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His dissertation, “The Struggle for the General Will in the French and Haitian Revolutions,” interprets the revolutions through the revolutionaries’ competing visions of popular sovereignty and French nationhood. He is the author of “Jansenism, Popular Sovereignty, and the General Will in the Prerevolutionary Crisis,” in Belief and Politics in Enlightenment France: Essays in Honor of Dale K. Van Kley, edited by Daniel J. Watkins and Mita Choudhury, forthcoming from the Voltaire Foundation’s Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment.
Jillian M. Hess is an Assistant Professor of English at Bronx Community College CUNY and a former Visiting Scholar at the American Academy [End Page 425] of Arts and Sciences. Her current project, The Commonplace Method, argues that commonplace books were essential to the way Romantic and Victorian authors wrote; moreover, the way writers organized quotations in these notebooks reflected different theories of mind and influenced their published literary style.
Rindert Jagersma specializes in the book trade of Dutch Republic in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. His PhD thesis (2018) is about the life and works of the Dutch pamphleteer Ericus Walten (1662–97) and the importance of pamphleteers and booksellers in the dissemination of the early Enlightenment at the end of the seventeenth century in the Netherlands. He currently works as a post-doc in the ERC-funded MEDIATE project (www.mediate18.nl).
Josh Lambert is the Academic Director of the Yiddish Book Center and Visiting Assistant Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is the author of American Jewish Fiction: A JPS Guide (2009) and Unclean Lips: Obscenity, Jews, and American Culture (2014), which was awarded a Jordan Schnitzer Book Award from the Association for Jewish Studies. His articles have appeared in Cinema Journal, Contemporary Literature, Studies in American Jewish Literature, and modernism/modernity, and his reviews in the New York Times Book Review, the Los Angeles Times, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and Haaretz.
Jerome McGann is the John Stewart Bryan University Professor, University of Virginia and Visiting Research Professor, University of California, Berkeley. He is finishing a study of American Literature and Culture 1620–1790, the first volume of a two-part investigation that will be carried forward into the early twentieth century. Much of this essay will be part of that volume.
Will B. Mackintosh is associate professor of history at the University of Mary Washington. He is a scholar of the history of tourism and the cultural history of capitalism, and is the author of Selling the Sights: The Invention of the Tourist in American Culture (NYU Press, 2018). He serves as editor of The Panorama: Extensive Views from the Journal of the Early Republic. You can find out more about him at willmackintosh.org. [End Page 426]
Alicia C. Montoya is Professor of French Literature and Culture at Radboud University, The Netherlands. She is the author of Medievalist Enlightenment: From Charles Perrault to Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Cambridge 2013) and Marie-Anne Barbier et la tragédie post-classique (Paris 2007), and the coeditor of several volumes, including Lumières et histoire / Enlightenment and History (Paris 2010...
