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Joanna Brooks is chair and professor of English and comparative literature at San Diego State University. Her new book, Why We Left: Untold Stories and Songs from America’s First Immigrants, has just been published by University of Minnesota Press (2013).
Russ Castronovo is Dorothy Draheim Professor of English and American Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is author and editor of several books and is completing a book manuscript entitled “Propaganda 1776.”
Steffi Dippold recently finished her doctorate at Stanford University. She is currently at work on a book project entitled “Plain as in Primitive: The Figure of the Native in Early America.” In fall 2013, she will join the English department at Kansas State University.
Annette Gordon-Reed is the Charles Warren Professor of American Legal History at Harvard Law School, professor of history in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and the Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.
Mike Heller teaches literature and peace studies at Roanoke College, in Salem, Virginia. He is the editor of The Tendering Presence: Essays on John Woolman (Pendle Hill, 2003) and coeditor of John Woolman: A Nonviolence and Social Change Source Book (Wilmington Coll. Peace Resource Center; 2nd ed., 2013).
Janie Hinds has worked most recently on late eighteenth-century transatlantic medical discourse. Her most recent work, “Intestinal Worms and the Natural Historian, Elizabeth Drinker,” is part of the Charles Brockden Brown Society meeting in Paris in October 2013.
Andrew Kopec teaches early American literature at Ohio State University, where, as a Presidential Fellow, he completed his dissertation in spring 2013. In addition to serving as assistant editor of The Collected Writings of Charles Brockden Brown (vol. 6), he is completing a book manuscript entitled “Economic Crisis and American Literature: Authorship in an Age of Panic, 1819–1857.”
Andrew Lipman is assistant professor of history at Syracuse University. His articles have appeared in The William and Mary Quarterly and Early American Studies, and he is currently completing a book manuscript titled “The Saltwater Frontier: Indians and the Contest for the American Coast.”
Mark Alan Mattes is a PhD candidate in American studies at the University of Iowa, where he is completing his dissertation, “Material Letters: Media Histories of Epistolary Communication, 1766–1867.” He recently held an Andrew W. Mellon [End Page 815] Fellowship in Early American Literature and Material Texts at the McNeil Center for Early American Studies and the Library Company of Philadelphia.
Peter S. Onuf is a Senior Research Fellow at the Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies at the Thomas Jefferson Foundation (Monticello) and Thomas Jefferson Foundation Professor Emeritus, University of Virginia. Onuf is author or coauthor of numerous works on the history of the early American Republic. He and Annette Gordon-Reed are now collaborating on The Most Blessed of Patriarchs, a study of Jeffersonian self-fashioning.
Juan Poblete is professor of literature and Latin/o American cultural studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is the author of Literatura chilena del siglo XIX: Entre públicos lectores y figuras autoriales (Cuarto Propio, 2003); editor of Critical Latin American and Latino Studies (University of Minnesota Press, 2003); and coeditor of Andres Bello (with Beatriz Gonzalez-Stephan, IILI, 2009), Redrawing the Nation: National Identities in Latin/o American Comics (with Héctor Fernández-L’ Hoeste, Palgrave, 2009), and Desdén al infortunio: Sujeto, comunicación y público en la narrativa de Pedro Lemebel (with Fernando Blanco, Cuarto Propio, 2010).
John H. Pollack is library specialist, public services, in the Special Collections Center of the University of Pennsylvania. He is the editor of “The Good Education of Youth”: Worlds of Learning in the Age of Franklin (Oak Knoll, U of Pennsylvania Libs., 2009).
Sheila Skemp is the Clare Leslie Marquette Professor of American History at the University of Mississippi. Her most recent publications are First Lady of Letters: Judith Sargent Murray and the Struggle for Women’s Independence (U of Pennsylvania P, 2009) and The Making of a Patriot: Benjamin Franklin at the Cockpit (Oxford UP, 2012).
Reiner Smolinski teaches early American literature at Georgia State University. He is general editor of Cotton...
