Contributors

JEMCS 4.1 (Spring/Summer 2004) Contributors Paula R. Backscheider is Stevens Eminent Scholar in English at Auburn University and a past president of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. The author of the biography, Daniel Defoe: His Life, which won the British Council Prize in 1990, and four critical books, she has published articles in Biography, Theatre Journal, ELH, PMLA, Eighteenth-Century Fiction, and many other journals. She has recently completed Inventing Agency, Inventing Genre: Eighteenth-Century Women Poets and Their Poetry. Jennifer Hobgood recently received her doctorate from Florida State University. She specializes in eighteenth-century British literature and is currently serving as Assistant Professor of English at Bainbridge College. She has published several arti cles, most focusing on the relationship between women and economics in literature. Kimberly Latta is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh. She specializes in late seventeenth and early eighteenth-century English literature, and is cur rently writing a book about economics, creative agency, and gender from John Milton to Daniel Defoe as an Ahmanson Getty Fellow at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library in Los Angeles. Laura Mandell is Associate Professor of English and Women's Studies Affiliate at Miami University. Her book, Misogynous Economies: The Business of Literature in Eighteenth-Century 198 The Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies Britain, analyzes various instances ofmisogynous representa tions ofwomen, showing how they are used in the process of literary canonization during the Romantic period and how, paradoxically, a feminist resistance to idealizing but oppres sive representations ofwomen often appears misogynous. Charlotte Sussman is Associate Professor of English at the University of Colorado. She is the author of Consuming Anxieties: Consumer Protest, Gender, and British Slavery, 1713-1833, as well as articles on Aphra Behn, Samuel Richardson, Walter Scott, Mary Shelley, and Charlotte Smith. She is currently researching the cultural impact of demographic theory during the long eighteenth century. Helen Thompson is assistant professor of English at Northwestern University. Her book, Ingenuous Subjection Feminine Compliance and Political Agency in the Eighteenth Century Domestic Novel, is forthcoming (2005) with the University of Pennsylvania Press. "Betsy Thoughtless and the Persistence of Coquettish Volition" was written while she was a Mellon/NEH fellow at the Newberry Library. William Warner is Professor of English at UC/Santa Barbara and Director of the Digital Cultures Project. His writing and teaching focuses on two areas: 18th century print culture and 20th century media culture. His work in the 18th century focuses upon understanding how the novel emerged, over the course of the 18th century, as the dominant form of print entertainment. [Licensing Entertainment: The Elevation of Novel Reading inBritain (1684-1750) UC Press, 1998.] He also teaches and publishes on the history and theory of 20th cen turymedia culture: film, radio, television and the Internet. He is currently at work on a new project, provisionally entitled American Broadcasting and American Networking: from the Boston Committee of Correspondence to the Internet ...