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  • Notes on Contributors

douglas anderson is Sterling-Goodman Professor of English at the University of Georgia. He is the author, most recently, of William Bradford’s Books: “Of Plimmoth Plantation” and the Printed Word (2003) and The Radical Enlightenments of Benjamin Franklin (1997).

jennifer j. baker is assistant professor of English at New York University and the author of Securing the Commonwealth: Debt, Speculation, and Writing in the Making of Early America (Johns Hopkins, 2005).

jennifer bernstein, assistant professor of English at The Citadel, studies the relationship between literature and philosophy in early America. She is finishing a book on American antinomianisms from Anne Hutchinson to Pragmatism.

michelle burnham is associate professor of English at Santa Clara University and the author of Folded Selves: Colonial New England Writing in the World System (forthcoming, University Press of New England).

konstantin dierks is assistant professor in the History Department at Indiana University, Bloomington. He is currently writing a book entitled In My Power: Letter Writing in Early America.

joseph fichtelberg is completing a book about risk narratives in early American culture. He teaches English at Hofstra University.

jeffrey glover is a Ph.D. candidate at Yale University. He is currently working on a dissertation on transatlantic Puritan print culture and evangelical outreach to Eastern Algonquins.

elizabeth hewitt is associate professor of English at Ohio State University and author of Correspondence in American Literature, 1770–1865 (Cambridge, 2004).

mark l. kamrath, associate professor of English at the University of Central Florida, is general editor of the Charles Brockden Brown Electronic Archive and Scholarly Edition. He recently co-edited, with Sharon M. Harris, Periodical Literature in Eighteenth-Century America (2005).

catherine kaplan is assistant professor of History at Arizona State University. Her book, A Different Kind of Citizenship: Three Stories of Culture and Critique in the New American Nation, is forthcoming from the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture.

catherine e. kelly, associate professor of history at the University of Oklahoma, is currently completing a study of visual culture in the early Republic. Her 1999 monograph, In the New England Fashion: Reshaping Women’s Lives in the Nineteenth [End Page 605] Century, was awarded the James J. Broussard First Book Prize by the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic.

heidi oberholtzer lee is an Edward F. Sorin Postdoctoral Fellow in the English department at the University of Notre Dame. She recently completed a dissertation on appetite and desire in early American travel narratives and has published food articles in The Journal of Narrative Theory and Early American Studies.

andrew newman, assistant professor of English at Stony Brook University, is working on a book on language ideology and the Pennsylvania Walking Purchase of 1737.

john saillant received his degrees from Brown University in American Civilization. He teaches courses in early American history, African American studies, and American religion at Western Michigan University. His monograph, Black Puritan, Black Republican, was published by Oxford University Press, and his documentary collection, “Face Zion Forward,” co-edited with Joanna Brooks, was published by Northeastern University Press.

alina sokol is assistant professor of Spanish at Dartmouth College. She is currently writing a book about the problem of value in the Spanish baroque.

angela vietto is associate professor of English at Eastern Illinois University and author of Women and Authorship in Revolutionary America, forthcoming from Ashgate Press.

eric wertheimer is an associate professor of English and American Studies at Arizona State University. He is the author of Imagined Empires and Underwriting: The Poetics of Insurance in America. [End Page 606]

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