Notes on Contributors
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Katherine Clay Bassard is professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth University. She is the author of Transforming Scriptures: African American Women Writers and the Bible (U of Georgia P, 2010) and Spiritual Interrogations: Culture, Gender and Community in Early African American Women’s Writing (Princeton UP, 1999).
Ralph Bauer is associate professor of English and comparative literature at the University of Maryland, College Park. His publications include The Cultural Geography of Colonial American Literatures: Empire, Travel, Modernity (Cambridge UP, 2003, 2008), An Inca Account of the Conquest of Peru (U of Colorado P, 2005), and (coedited with José Antonio Mazzotti) Creole Subjects in the Colonial Americas: Empires, Texts, Identities (U of North Carolina P, 2009), as well as articles in collections and journals such as American Literary History, American Literature, Early American Literature, PMLA, Revista Iberoamericana, Colonial Latin American Review, Dieciocho, and Latin American Research Review.
Matthew P. Brown, associate professor of English at the University of Iowa, is the author of The Pilgrim and the Bee: Reading Rituals in Early New England (U of Pennsylvania P, 2007) and the recipient of an NEH Fellowship for his next project, “The Novel and the Blank.” He has recently led Mellon summer seminars in early American literature and the material text, and he currently directs the UI Center for the Book, a program offering both an MFA degree and a graduate certificate in the book arts and in book studies.
Katy Chiles teaches and writes about African American and Native American literature, early American literature and culture, and critical race theory at the University of Tennessee. Her work has appeared in journals such as PMLA and American Literature. She is currently working on a book manuscript entitled “Transformable Race and the Literatures of Early America.”
Joseph Fichtelberg is the author, most recently, of Risk Culture: Performance and Danger in Early America (U of Michigan P, 2010) and Critical Fictions: Sentiment and the American Market, 1780–1870 (U of Georgia P, 2003). He is chair of the English Department at Hofstra University.
Frances Smith Foster is Emory University Professor Emerita of English and women’s studies. Her most recent publications are Love and Marriage in Early African America and ’Til Death or Distance Do Us Part: Love and Marriage in African America. [End Page 527]
Annette Gordon-Reed is professor of law and professor of history at Harvard University and the Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She is the author of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy (UP of Virginia, 1998) and The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family (Norton, 2009).
Ronald Hoffman is director of the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture. In 2006, the three-volume edition he edited with Sally D. Mason and Eleanor S. Darcy of the family papers of Charles Carroll of Carrollton was awarded the Jameson Prize by the American Historical Association.
Keri Holt is assistant professor of English at Utah State University. She is currently working on a book examining regional literature and federalism in the early republic. She has published on antebellum regional writing in western American literature and in the edited collections The Transformation of War in the Writings in William Gilmore Simms (U of South Carolina P, 2010) and John Neal and Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture (Bucknell UP, 2011).
Robert S. Levine is professor of English and Distinguished Scholar-Teacher at the University of Maryland, College Park. His most recent books are A Companion to American Literary Studies (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011), coedited with Caroline Levander; The Works of James M. Whitfield (U of North Carolina P, 2011), coedited with Ivy Wilson; and the second edition (2011) of his Bedford Cultural Edition of William Wells Brown’s Clotel.
Jerome McGann is currently developing an online geotemporal environment for investigating the historical conditions and conflicts of antebellum America. Several recent essays (one on Cooper, to appear shortly in MLQ, and two on Poe, one forthcoming) signal the interpretive goals of the project.
Hugh Mcintosh is a PhD candidate at Northwestern University. His dissertation, “Entertaining the Union: Northern Allegiance, Sensationalism, and Dreams of Mass Readership in Civil War Literature,” explores conceptions...
