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Emelia Abbé is a PhD candidate at the University of Michigan. Her work uses material culture and spatial studies to explore cultural, economic, and theological exchange in the early Atlantic world. She recently presented a portion of her dissertation, provisionally titled "Tavern Settings: The Material Politics of Early American Drinking Culture," at the annual congress of l'Association Française d'Etudes Américaines.

Jeanne Abrams is professor at the University Libraries and the Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Denver. Her areas of expertise are medical, early American, and American Jewish history. She is author of five books: Jewish Women Pioneering the Frontier Trail: A History in the American West (New York UP, 2006), Jewish Denver, 1859–1940 (Arcadia, 2007), Dr. Charles David Spivak, a Jewish Immigrant and the American Tuberculosis Movement (U of Colorado P, 2009), Revolutionary Medicine: America's Founding Mothers and Fathers in Sickness and Health (New York UP, 2013), and First Ladies of the Republic: Martha Washington, Abigail Adams, and Dolley Madison (New York UP, 2018). She is also the author of numerous articles and essays in academic and popular journals and magazines.

Ralph Bauer is associate professor of English and comparative literature at the University of Maryland. His research interests include the literatures and cultures of the colonial Americas, early modern studies, hemispheric studies, and the history of science. His recent publications include (coedited with Marcy Norton) Entangled Trajectories: A Special Issue of Colonial Latin American Review (Spring 2017) and (coedited with Jaime Marroquín Arredondo) Translating Nature: Transcultural Histories of Early Modern Science (forthcoming with U of Pennsylvania P). His most recent monograph, The Alchemy of Conquest: Science, Religion, and the Secrets of the New World, is forthcoming from University of Virginia Press.

Chiara Cillerai is associate professor of composition and literature at St. John's University, New York. Her research and writing focus on eighteenth-century literary culture in America. Her book, Voices of Cosmopolitanism in Early American Writings and Culture (Palgrave, 2017), reassesses the terms in which we understand cosmopolitanism in the early American context. She has also recently contributed an essay entitled "Cosmopolitan Correspondences: The American Republic of Letters and the Circulation of Enlightenment Thought" to the first volume of the Blackwell Companion to American Literature (forthcoming 2019). She is currently coediting a digital and paper edition of Elizabeth Graeme Fergusson's writings.

Thomas Dikant is a visiting assistant professor in the Literature Department of the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin. He is the author of the German-language monograph Landschaft und Territorium: Amerikanische Literatur, Expansion und die Krise der Nation, 1784–1866 (Landscape and Territory: American Literature, Expansion, and National Crisis, 1784-1866), published in 2014 by Wilhelm Fink, and he is currently working on a book project on causality in nineteenth-century American literature and law.

Carolyn Eastman is associate professor of History at Virginia Commonwealth University, and has published extensively on the cultural and intellectual history of early America and the Atlantic world, political culture, and the history of print, oral, and visual media. Her book A Nation of Speechifiers: Making an American Public after the Revolution (U of Chicago P, 2009) received the James Broussard Best First Book Prize from the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic. Her forthcoming book, The Strange Genius of Mr. O: Celebrity and the Invention of the United States, is under contract with the University of North Carolina Press and the Omohundro Institute.

Thomas Hallock is professor of English at the University of South Florida. His publications include From the Fallen Tree: Frontier Narratives, Environmental Politics and the Roots of a National Pastoral (U of North Carolina P, 2003), and William Bartram, the Search for Nature's Design: Selected Art, Letters, and Unpublished Writings (U of Georgia P, 2010), coedited with Nancy E. Hoffmann. This essay reflects upon a current project, a series book of travels essays about teaching the US survey, called "A Road Course in American Literature."

Douglas A. Jones, Jr., is associate professor of English at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. He is the author of The Captive Stage: Performance and the Proslavery...

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