Contributors to Volume 31

Contributors to Volume 31 Daniel J. Ennis is Assistant Professor of English at Coastal Carolina University in Conway, South Carolina. He is the author of Enter the PressGang : Naval Impressment in Eighteenth-Century British Literature, and of recent articles about Colley Cibber, John Dryden and Christopher Smart. He is currently at work on a book about the 1779 London theater season. James E. Evans, Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, is the author of Comedy: An Annotated Bibliography of Theory and Criticism, as well as numerous articles on Fielding, Congreve, and early British periodicals. Evans was a winner of the 1999-2000 ASECS Teaching Competition. Howard Irving is Professor of Music at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. His recent publications include Ancients and Moderns: William Crotch and the Development of Classical Music, published by Ashgate Press in 1999. His paper was presented at the 2000 SEASECS meeting. John R. Iverson is Assistant Professor of French at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He has written primarily on Voltaire, including an article on celebratory poetry and the battle of Fontenoy published in volume 28 of Studies on Eighteenth-Century Culture. He is currently preparing a study of heroic discourse and the concept of glory in eighteenth-century France. He will also be contributing to the edition of Voltaire's Complete Works at the Voltaire Foundation. Joe Johnson is Assistant Professor of French at Georgia Southwestern State University. His essay is part of a larger project on depictions of idealized male friendship in French narrative from the Middle Ages through the Enlightenment. Catherine Keohane recently earned her Ph.D. from Rutgers University. She is working on a project which considers eighteenth-century didactic and literary depictions of the charitable exchange in order to gain insight into gender ideology and the work of literature. She has published 255 256 / Contributors examinations of the way debt combines with stereotypes of the poor to confuse the moment of charitable giving and of the contradictions between one text's prefatory material and actual content. /. David Macey, Jr. teaches Restoration and eighteenth-century British literature at the University of Puget Sound. He is currently working on a book-length study of the strategies that writers including Eliza Haywood, Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding, Frances Bumey, and Jane Austen employ to interrogate the widespread representation of women, the rural poor, and Britain's colonial subjects as figures in—and for—the culturally constructed landscape. Leanne Maunu received her PhD in English in 2001 from Indiana University and is currently teaching at San Diego State University. Her research interests center on nationalism and women writers of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and her current research project is entitled "Women Writing the Nation: Nationalism and Female Community in Late EighteenthCentury Britain." Reginald McGinnis is Associate Professor of French at the University of Arizona. He has written several articles on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century French literature and culture, as well as a book on Baudelaire: La Prostitution sacrée (Bonn, 1994). Brijraj Singh taught at St. Stephen's College, Delhi, and North-Eastem Hill University, Shillong, and was Professor of English at Delhi University in India before coming to live in the United States, where he is currently a professor of English and Chair of the Department at Hostos Community College of CUNY. He is the author, most recently, of The First Protestant Missionary to India: Bartholomaeus Ziegenbalg (1683-1719), and has published over forty scholarly and academic articles in India, the U.S. and Britain. Beth Kowaleski Wallace is the author of Consuming Subjects: Women, Shopping, and Business in the Eighteenth Century (Columbia University Press, 1997). Her new project concerns contemporary representations of the eighteenth-century slave trade. She is an Associate Professor of English at Boston College. Contributors / 257 Amy Wyngaard, an Assistant Professor of French at Syracuse University, has published essays on Marivaux, Watteau, and Rétif de la Bretonne. She is completing a book entitled From Savage to Citizen: The Invention of the Peasantry in the French Enlightenment. ...