Notes on Contributors
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SIRAJ AHMED is Associate Professor of English and Director of Comparative Literature at Lehman College, City University of New York. He is the author of The Stillbirth of Capital: Enlightenment Writing and Colonial India (2012) and articles in Critical Inquiry and Representations. He is currently writing “Archaeology of Babel: Comparative Literature, Critical Method, Colonial Law.”
ASHLEY L. COHEN is Assistant Professor of English at Georgetown University, and was the 2013–14 Barra Postdoctoral Fellow at the McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Her current work excavates the historical linkages between British India and the British Atlantic world. Her publications include a critical edition of Lady Nugent’s East India Journal, which is forthcoming from Oxford University Press.
DENISE FERREIRA DA SILVA is Professor and Chair in Ethics at the School of Business and Management, Queen Mary University of London. She is the author of Toward a Global Idea of Race (2007), and is co-editor of the Law and the Postcolonial: Ethics, Politics, Economics book series with Routledge. Her work has appeared in numerous venues, including most recently, American Quarterly, Social Text, and Theory, Culture & Society. She is currently preparing manuscripts titled No-Bodies: Raciality and Logic of Security in the Global Present, and A Critique of Racial Violence.
HUMBERTO GARCIA is Associate Professor of English at Vanderbilt University. He is the author of Islam and the English Enlightenment, 1670–1840 (2012), and his work has appeared in venues like Journal of Religion and Literature, The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, Studies in Romanticism, and The Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies. He is currently at work on a book about Indian authors and English literary culture in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
BETTY JOSEPH is Associate Professor of English at Rice University. She is the author of Reading the East India Company, 1720–1840: Colonial Currencies of Gender (2004). She is currently working on two book-length projects: one on representations of economic globalization in contemporary fiction, and the other on seventeenth-and eighteenth-century British Enlightenment intersections of language theory, anthropology and trade. [End Page 331]
DAVID KAZANJIAN is Associate Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of The Colonizing Trick: National Culture and Imperial Citizenship in Early America (2003), and has co-edited several works, including Loss: The Politics of Mourning (2002), with David L. Eng, and The Aunt Lute Anthology of U.S. Women Writers, Volume One: Seventeenth through Nineteenth Centuries (2004), with Shay Brawn, Bonnie Dow, Lisa Maria Hogeland, Mary Klages, Deb Meem, and Rhonda Pettit. He is currently completing a manuscript titled “The Brink of Freedom: Improvising Life in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World.”
JULIE CHUN KIM is Assistant Professor of English at Fordham University. Her interests include colonialism and empire, science and botany, and food studies. She is currently working on a book about the St. Vincent royal botanic garden.
LAWRENCE LIPKING is Professor Emeritus of English at Northwestern University. He is the author of several books, including The Life of the Poet: Beginning and Ending Poetic Careers (1981), which won the Christian Gauss Award, Abandoned Women and Poetic Tradition (1988), and Samuel Johnson: The Life of an Author (1998). Another book, What Galileo Saw: Imagining the Scientific Revolution, is forthcoming from Cornell University Press.
RAMESH MALLIPEDDI is Assistant Professor of English at Hunter College, City University of New York. His book, Spectacular Suffering: Witnessing Slavery in the Eighteenth-Century British Atlantic, is forthcoming from the University of Virginia Press, and his work has appeared in Eighteenth-Century Studies, and ELH.
SYLVIA KASEY MARKS is Professor of English at NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering. She is the author of Sir Charles Grandison: The Compleat Conduct Book (1980), and Writing for the Rising Generation: British Fiction for Young People 1672–1839 (2003).
JENNIFER DAVIS MICHAEL is Professor of English at The University of the South. She is the author of Blake and the City (2006), and is currently working on a project about poetry and silence.
TERRY F. ROBINSON is Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto, where she teaches eighteenth-and nineteenth-century literature and drama. Her articles on...
