Notes on Contributors

Notes on Contributors

Paula R. Backscheider is Stevens Eminent Scholar at Auburn University. Her most recent book is Eighteenth-Century Women Poets and Their Poetry: Inventing Agency, Inventing Genre (Johns Hopkins, 2005). She is the author of other books, including Daniel Defoe: His Life (Johns Hopkins, 1992), which won the British Council Prize, Spectacular Politics (Johns Hopkins, 1993), and Reflections on Biography (Oxford, 2001); she has published articles in PMLA, ELH, Theatre Journal, and many other journals. A former president of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, she has held NEH and Guggenheim fellowships and is one of the few American members of the Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Edinburgh. She is currently at work on an anthology of eighteenth-century poems by women to be published by Johns Hopkins University Press.

Jennifer Keith, associate professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, has written essays on eighteenth-century poetry and Poetry and the Feminine from Behn to Cowper (University of Delaware, 2005). She is at work on a critical edition of the poems of Anne Finch.

James Kim is currently an assistant professor of English at Fordham University, where he specializes in both Eighteenth-Century British Studies and Asian American Studies.

Gabriel Paquette was elected to a Junior Research Fellowship at Trinity College, Cambridge, in October 2005. He previously taught European Imperial History at Wesleyan University in Connecticut. His previous essays have appeared in European History Quarterly, Bulletin of Spanish Studies, and Clio. He is a native of Brooklyn, New York.

Michael Tomko is an assistant professor at Villanova University where he teaches literature in the interdisciplinary department of Humanities. He is currently working on a study of British Romanticism and Catholic Emancipation and co-editing an anthology of English Catholic writing.

Mark Wildermuth teaches eighteenth-century literature and film at the University of Texas of the Permian Basin. Publications include articles in Age of Johnson and Philosophy and Rhetoric, and the book, Blood in the Moonlight: Michael Mann and Information Age Cinema (McFarland, 2005). A book on Johnson, chaos, print culture, and eighteenth-century poetics is forthcoming.