Contributors to Volume 28

Contributors to Volume 28 PaulBainesisLecturerintheDepartmentofEnglishLanguageandLit- erature,UniversityofLiverpool,UnitedKingdom.Hehaspublishedmany articlesoneighteenth-centurysubjectsandistheauthorofTheHouseof ForgeryinEighteenth-CenturyBritain(AshgatePublishing,1998).Hehas editedWalpole'sTheMysteriousMotherforananthology,BritishRoman- ticPlays(co-editedwithEdwardBurns),publishedbyOxfordUniversity PressintheWorld'sClassicsseries. ScarlettBowenisAssistantProfessorofEnglishatWilliamPaterson Universityandiscurrentlyworkingonabook-lengthstudyofproserepre- sentationsofworkingwomenintheBritisheighteenthcentury. ElizabethChildisagraduatestudentinEnglishattheUniversityofMary- land,wheresheisworkingonadissertationentitled"LocalAttachments: Geography,Gender,andPrintCultureinEngland'sProvincialTowns, 1660-1788."ShehasanarticleforthcomingintheessaycollectionFe- maleCommunities,1600-1800(NewYork:St.Martin'sPress).Thepresent articlewastherecipientofthe1997CatherineMacaulayPrize,presented bytheWomen'sCaucusofASECS. LisaFormanCodyisAssistantProfessorofHistoryatClaremontMcKennaCollege.Sheiscurrentlyfinishingabook-lengthprojectwiththeworking title"Reproduction:Science,Culture,andChildbirthinBritain,1660- 1870."Sheisalsoworkingontwootherbook-lengthprojects,oneonrep- resenting"pregnantmen"inEuropeanartandliterature,theotheronthe intersectionofthebodyandmedicinewiththemarketplaceandfinancein eighteenth-centuryBritain. JohnR.IversonisAssistantProfessorofFrenchattheUniversityof Missouri-Columbia.HerecentlycompletedhisdissertationonVoltaireand notionsofgloryandheroismineighteenth-centuryFrance.Hehasalso beeninvolvedinbuildingtheelectronicEncyclopédiefortheARTFLProject attheUniversityofChicago.Hispaperwasoriginallypresentedatthe ASECSmeetinginNashville. 383 384/Contributors SuzanneKiernanisLecturerintheDepartmentofItalianattheUniversity ofSydney,Australia. PeterC.MesserisAssistantProfessorofHistoryatTexasA&MUniversity atCommerce.Thepaperwasfirstpresentedatthe1997ASECSconference inNashville,andrevisedwhiletheauthorwasapostdoctoralfellowpartici- patingintheSawyerMellonSeminaronNationalCulturesandtheCon- structionoftheModernWorldattheJohnsHopkinsUniversity.Thisessay grewoutofhisdissertation,"StoriesofIndependence:Eighteenth-Century Narratives"(RutgersUniversity,1997)whichexploredthewaysinwhich eighteenth-centuryAmericansusedhistoryasawayofdefiningthemselves,firstasmembersoftheBritishempireandlaterasthefoundersofaninde- pendentrepublic. JudithC.MuellerisAssociateProfessorofEnglishatFranklinandMarshall College.ShehaspublishedseveralarticlesonJonathanSwift,andiscurrentlyworkingonabook -lengthstudyofmalesexualityintheRestorationandearlyeighteenthcentury. DavidPorterisAssistantProfessorofEnglishattheUniversityofMichigan .HeiscurrentlycompletingabookonEuropeanresponsestovarious aspectsofChinesecultureduringtheeighteenthcentury,andhaspreviously editedtwoRoutledgevolumes,BetweenMenandFeminismandInternet Culture.Hisessaywaspresentedatthe1996MWASECSconferencein Indianapolis. EvanRadcliffeisAssociateProfessorofEnglishatVillanovaUniversity. Hehaspublishedarticlesonthe1790sandonRomanticliterature,andiscurrentlyworkingonastudyofWordsworth'snarrativepoetryinrelationto thedebateovertheFrenchRevolution. PeterHannsReillisProfessorofHistoryandDirectoroftheCenterfor Seventeenth-andEighteenth-CenturyStudiesandtheWilliamAndrewsClark MemorialLibraryatUniversityofCalifornia-LosAngeles.Hispaperwas originallypresentedasaplenaryaddressatthe1997ASECSmeeting. PatrickRileyisAssistantProfessorofFrenchatColgateUniversity.Heworks onEnlightenmentandAutobiography,andiscurrentlycompletingabook tracingtherelatonbetweenconversionandautobiographicalnarrativefrom SaintAugustinetoSartre. Contributors / 385 EleanorF.Shevlincurrentlyteacheswriting,literature,andbookhistory coursesattheUniversityofMarylandCollegePark.Thepaperwaspresentedatthe1997ASECSconferenceinNashville .Sheisworkingona book-lengthprojecttentativelyentitled"TheMakingsofaGenre:Titles, Property,Law,andtheConstructionoftheEighteenth-CenturyEnglish Novel,1688-1789."SheservesastheSocietyfortheHistoryofAumor- ship,Reading,andPublishing(SHARP)liaisontoASECS. JamesGranthamTurnerisProfessorofEnglishattheUniversityofCali- fornia,Berkeley,andhastaughtatOxford,Sussex,Liverpool,Virginia, Northwestern,andMichigan.InadditiontoeditingPolitics,Poeticsand HermeneuticsinMilton'sProse(Cambridge,1990)wimDavidLoewenstein, RobertPaltock'sLifeandAdventuresofPeterWilkins(Oxford,1990)and SexualityandGenderinEarlyModernEurope:Institutions,Texts,Images (Cambridge,1993),hehaswrittennumerousarticlesonseventeenth-and eighteenth-centurycultureandtwobooks:ThePoliticsofLandscape:Ru- ralSceneryandSocietyinEnglishPoetry,1630-1660(Oxford,1979)and OneFlesh:ParadisalMarriageandSexualRelationsintheAgeofMilton (Oxford,1987;2ndedition1994). AnnetteK.Weirisanindependentscholarwhoworksasalibrarianaswell aspursuingherscholarlyinterestsinarthistory.Thepresentessaywas originallypresentedatthe1996MWASECSmeetinginIndianapolis.She iscurrentlyworkingonananalysisofthelatesixteenth-centuryportrait collectionofFerdinandII,ArchdukeofAustria. ...