Teaching Olaudah Equiano’s Narrative: Pedagogical Strategies and New Perspectives

Contributors

Contributors Srinivas Aravamudan earned his Ph.D. at Cornell University in 1991 and has taught at the University of Utah and at the University of Washington. he joined the Duke English Department in fall 2000. he is currently Professor of English and literature and Dean of humanities at Duke. he specializes in eighteenthcentury British and french literature and in postcolonial literature and theory. he is the author of essays in Diacritics, ELH, Social Text, Novel, Eighteenth-Century Studies, Anthropological Forum, South Atlantic Quarterly, boundary 2, and other venues. his study Tropicopolitans: Colonialism and Agency, 1688–1804 (Duke UP, 1999) won the outstanding first book prize of the Modern language Association in 2000. he has also edited Slavery, Abolition and Emancipation: Writings of the British Romantic Period: Volume VI Fiction (Pickering and Chatto, 1999). his book Guru English: South Asian Religion in A Cosmopolitan Language was published by Princeton University Press in January 2006 and republished by Penguin india in 2007. he is working on two book-length studies, one on the eighteenth-century french and British oriental tale, tentatively titled Enlightenment Orientalism: Resisting the Rise of the Novel, and another study, Sovereignty and Anachronism: Hobbes and the Democratic Tradition. his edition of William Earle’s antislavery romance, Obi: or, The History of Three-Fingered Jack, appeared in 2005 with Broadview Press. Sarah Brophy is Associate Professor of English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University, hamilton, Canada. her research interests include British literature since 1945, black British literature, gender/sexuality, health and embodiment, autobiography, and cultural studies. She is the author of Witnessing AIDS: Writing , Testimony, and the Work of Mourning (U of Toronto P, 2004) and of articles in Contemporary Women’s Writing, Literature and Medicine, scrutiny2, and PMLA. 314 Contributors vincent Carretta, Professor of English at the University of Maryland, specializes in eighteenth-century transatlantic historical and literary studies. he has recently held fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial foundation , the library Company of Philadelphia, the John Carter Brown library, the Massachusetts historical Society, the University of london, the W. E. B. Du Bois institute for Afro-American research at harvard University, and the School of historical Studies at the institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton. Author of more than one hundred articles and reviews, Carretta has also written and edited twelve books, most recently Equiano, the African: Biography of a Self-Made Man (U of Georgia P, 2005), The Life and Letters of Philip Quaque: The First African Anglican Missionary (Georgia, 2010), co-edited with Ty M. reese, and Phillis Wheatley: Biography of a Genius in Bondage (Georgia, 2011). Tess Chakkalakal is an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Africana Studies and English at Bowdoin College. her essays on early African American literature have appeared in South Atlantic Quarterly and Studies in American Fiction , as well as in several edited volumes. She is currently completing a book on nineteenth-century African American literature titled Novel Bondage: Slavery, Marriage, and Freedom in Nineteenth-Century America. She is co-editor of a critical edition of the novels of Sutton E. Griggs (forthcoming from West virginia University Press) and is co-editing a collection of critical essays on Griggs’s life and work. Abby Chandler completed an M.A. in public history from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 2002. from there, she went on to a doctoral degree in history at the University of Maine which she finished in 2008. her dissertation is titled “At the Magistrate’s Discretion: Sexual Crime and New England law, 1636 to 1718.” She now teaches at the University of Massachusetts at lowell. Angelo Costanzo is Professor Emeritus of English at Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania. he has written extensively on Olaudah Equiano in several journals and textbooks. his publications include Surprizing Narrative: Olaudah Equiano and the Beginnings of Black Autobiography (Greenwood, 1987) and an edition of The Interesting Narrative (Broadview, 2002). Contributors 315 Jessica l. hollis is currently a visiting Assistant Professor at Ohio University . She specializes in the literature and culture of the long eighteenth century. her work has appeared in Eighteenth-Century Studies and Women’s Writing and is forthcoming in a volume titled Teaching the Transatlantic Eighteenth Century (edited by Cristobal Silva and Jennifer frangos). She is working on a manuscript titled Geographies of Commerce: Space, Class, and Gender in the Eighteenth Century. Keri holt is an Assistant Professor in the English Department at Utah State University, where she...