Contributors to Volume 43
- Contributors to Volume 43
Paula R. Backscheider is Philpott-Stevens Eminent Scholar at Auburn University and a former president of ASECS. Author of several books and many articles, her most recent book is Elizabeth Singer Rowe and the Development of the English Novel (Johns Hopkins UP, 2013). She is writing “The Transforming Imagination,” a study of the relationships between novels and drama.
Rori Bloom is Associate Professor of French at the University of Florida. She has published a book on the abbé Prévost as well as essays on Crébillon fils and Restif de la Bretonne. She is currently pursuing a new project on aesthetic issues in the tales of Mme d’Aulnoy.
Ann Campbell is Associate Professor of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century British literature at Boise State University. Her research focuses on eighteenth- century novels. She has published articles in The Shandean, Eighteenth- Century Women, and Eighteenth-Century Life. At present, she is writing a monograph focusing on surrogate families in the eighteenth-century British novel. Her article is a part of this larger project.
Patricia Comitini is an Associate Professor of English at Quinnipiac University. She is author of Vocational Philanthropy and British Women’s Writing (Ashgate, 2006), as well as articles on nineteenth-century British literature. Her current scholarly work includes a manuscript that investigates the intersection between aesthetics, ideology and addiction in the long eighteenth century.
Sabrina Ferri is Assistant Professor of Italian at the University of Notre Dame, where she is also a fellow at the Nanovic Institute for European Studies. She has recently enjoyed a stint as a fellow at Notre Dame’s Institute for Advanced Studies and also as visiting scholar at Stanford University. Her work on Giacomo Casanova, Giambattista Vico, and Vittorio Alfieri has appeared in Sincronie, New Vico Studies, and European Romantic Review. She is currently completing a book manuscript on ruins in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Italian literature and culture, entitled Temporal Ruinations: A History of Time in Italy, 1744–1836. [End Page 239]
Rebecca Dowd Geoffroy-Schwinden is a Ph.D. candidate in musicology at Duke University, where she earned the M. A. in 2011. During 2012–13 she conducted archival research for the present SECC article in Paris, and also worked on her dissertation treating of music performance and discourse in revolutionary France. In addition to her work on French musicology 1600-1900, she is interested in music composed for the cinema and also teaches courses in music and politics from the Enlightenment to the present.
Karen Gevirtz is Associate Professor of English at Seton Hall University and Executive President of the Aphra Behn Society for Women in the Arts, 1660–1830. Her current research examines film adaptations of eighteenth-century texts and authors, and the role of natural philosophy in women’s contributions to the emerging novel. She has published Life After Death: Widows and the English Novel, Defoe to Austen (University of Delaware Press, 2005) and co-edited Gender and Space in British Literature, 1660–1820 (Ashgate, forthcoming in 2014) with Mona Narain.
Barbara Mackey King received her Ph.D. in theatre history from Bowling Green State University focusing on the eighteenth century. She also studied at the University of Michigan and Penn State University. Now retired, she has taught at Southern University of Louisiana, Penn State University, Shippensburg State University, the University of Toledo, Owens Community College, and was a visiting professor at Kolej Damamsara Utama in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. She has published in Theatre Journal, Restoration and Eighteenth Century Theatre Research, and Text and Performance Quarterly, among others.
April London is Professor of English at the University of Ottawa. She is the author of numerous articles on eighteenth-century and Romantic topics and of Women and Property in the Eighteenth-Century Novel (Cambridge University Press, 1999), Literary History Writing, 1770–1820 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), and The Cambridge Introduction to the Eighteenth-Century Novel (Cambridge University Press, 2012). She is currently working on anecdotal writing in the long eighteenth century.
Joanne E. Myers is Assistant Professor of English at Gettysburg College and her research focuses on the relative secularity of eighteenth-century Britain. She has published articles about the role of enthusiasm in...
