Contributors to Volume 38
- Contributors to Volume 38
Toni Bowers is Associate Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania, where she co-founded the Atlantic Studies Seminar in 2001. She specializes in British writing and culture of the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, with a particular focus on women's writing, partisan debates, the construction of "Great Britain," British identities in seventeenth-and eighteenth-century North America, and the development of prose fiction in Scotland. She is the author of numerous scholarly articles; The Politics of Motherhood: British Writing and Culture, 1660–1760 (Cambridge University Press); and of a new book manuscript entitled "Force or Fraud: Tory Seduction Stories and the Problem of Resistance."
Vincent Carretta is Professor of English at the University of Maryland, specializing in eighteenth-century transatlantic English-speaking authors of African descent. His recent fellowships include a Distinguished Visiting Fellowship at Queen Mary, University of London, 2008; a W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research Fellowship, at Harvard University, 2004–2005; and a School of Historical Studies Fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton, 2003–2004. His publications include "The Snarling Muse": Verbal and Visual Political Satire from Pope to Churchill (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1983); George III and the Satirists from Hogarth to Byron (University of Georgia Press, 1990); and Equiano, the African: Biography of a Self-Made Man (University of Georgia Press, 2005); as well as several editions, including Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative and Other Writings (Penguin, 1995; rev. ed. 2003); Unchained Voices: An Anthology of Black Authors in the English-Speaking World of the Eighteenth Century (University Press of Kentucky, 1996; rev. ed. 2004); Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, An African (Penguin, 1998); Quobna Ottobah Cugoano, Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery and Other Writings (Penguin, 1999); and Phillis Wheatley, Complete Writings (Penguin, 2001). With Philip Gould, he has co-edited and contributed to Genius in Bondage: Literature of the Early Black Atlantic (University Press of Kentucky, 2001). [End Page 277]
Tita Chico is Associate Professor of English at the University of Maryland, College Park, where she is also Associate Director of Graduate Studies. She is the author of Designing Women: The Dressing Room in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Culture (2005) and Editor of The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation. This essay is part of her current project on eighteenth-century minute particulars.
Elizabeth Claire holds a Ph.D. in Performance Studies from NYU/Tisch School of the Arts and teaches as a Guest Lecturer in contemporary dance and dance history in the Performing Arts Department at Washington University in St. Louis. She is the Artistic Director of MADE in France, a summer study abroad program for Movement Arts & Design in Europe (www.made-in-france.us). She lives in Paris where she continues to choreograph and perform with the contemporary object-theater company Au Cul du Loup. Her current historical research on the early waltz and women's health in Europe is the inspiration both for a scholarly book project, as well as a performance project entitled "Valse Vertige."
Betsy Erkkila, the Henry Sanborn Noyes Professor of Literature at Northwestern University, is the author of several books on American literature, including Whitman the Political Poet (Oxford University Press, 1989); The Wicked Sisters: Women Poets, Literary History, and Discord (Oxford University Press, 1992); and Mixed Bloods and Other Crosses: Rethinking American Literature from the Revolution to the Culture Wars (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005); and editor (with Jay Grossman) of Breaking Bounds: Whitman and American Cultural Studies (Oxford University Press, 1996). She is currently working on a study of the visionary literature and politics of the Revolutionary Era.
Douglas S. Harvey has recently completed his doctorate in History at the University of Kansas on the relationship between theater and empire in English-speaking North America to the Civil War. He is Adjunct Professor of History in the greater Kansas City-Northeast Kansas area. He also explores European roots music with the folk music group "Rowan" and has a "Songs of Revolution" program that he takes into high schools and community colleges in the region.
Catherine M. Jaffe is Professor of Spanish at Texas State University, San Marcos...
