Contributors
- Contributors
Rachel Ramsey is associate professor of English at Assumption College, Worcester, MA.
Scott Nowka is assistant professor of English at Salem State College.
Jessica L. Leiman, assistant professor of English at Carleton College, is completing a book manuscript on impotence and authorship in eighteenth-century narrative.
Martha J. Koehler, associate professor of English at University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg, is the author of Models of Reading: Paragons and Parasites in Richardson, Burney, and Laclos (2005).
Sharon Harrow is associate professor of English at Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania. She is currently at work on an edited collection tentatively titled British Sporting Culture: The Literature and Culture of Sport in the Long Eighteenth Century.
Emily C. Friedman is assistant professor of English at Auburn University. Her current work considers how innovative endings in both canonized and forgotten eighteenth-century fiction contribute to an understanding of the early novel.
James Cruise is professor of English at Northwestern State University of Louisiana. He is currently working on a project that examines the role of secrecy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Megan Woodworth, whose research interests include women writers, the novel, masculinity, and politics, recently completed her PhD at University of Exeter with a dissertation entitled Becoming Gentlemen: Women Writers, Masculinity, and War, 1775–1818.
Ros Ballaster is Professor of Eighteenth-Century Studies, Faculty of English and Mansfield College, Oxford University.
Betty A. Schellenberg teaches at Simon Fraser University and has published articles and books on the mid-eighteenth-century conversational novel, sequels, domestic travel writing, women writers, and media cultures.
Jen Currin holds a Masters in Literature from Simon Fraser University, and an MFA in Creative Writing from Arizona State University. She has published two poetry collections, most recently Hagiography (2008). [End Page iii]
Laura McLean is a graduate student in English at Simon Fraser University, currently doing thesis work on the Black Death and Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales.
Matthew Risling is working on the relationship between natural philosophy and sentimental literature in the eighteenth century.
Cheryl Nixon, associate professor of English at University of Massachusetts Boston, is the editor of Novel Definitions: An Anthology of Commentary on the Novel, 1688–1815 (2009).
Lisa O’Connell teaches eighteenth-century British literature at University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia; her book manuscript, Proper Ceremony: The Political Origins of the English Marriage Plot, is in progress.
Trevor Ross is currently Assistant Dean, Research, in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Dalhousie University.
D.J. Culpin, Reader in French at the University of St Andrews, Scotland, specializes in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French literature, and has published widely on La Rochefoucauld, Perrault, Marivaux, and the moralistes.
Pierre Saint-Amand is Francis Wayland Professor, professor of French studies and comparative literature at Brown University.
Sarah Jordan, associate professor at Albion College, is the author of The Anxieties of Idleness: Idleness in Eighteenth-Century British Literature and Culture (2003) and is currently working on a study of British masculinity in the eighteenth century.
Kathryn Steele is a lecturer at University of Oklahoma; she is working on a history of Samuel Richardson’s readers and the methodological problems of discovering historical readers.
Tara Ghoshal Wallace is professor of English and Associate Dean of Graduate Studies of Arts and Sciences at George Washington University. Her forthcoming book is entitled Imperial Characters, and she is currently working on Walter Scott and Frances Burney.
George Boulukos, associate professor of English at SIU Carbondale, is the author of The Grateful Slave: The Emergence of Race in Eighteenth-Century British and American Culture (2008) and several forthcoming essays on the history of the novel. [End Page iv]
