Notes on Contributors
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Barbara M. Benedict is the Charles A. Dana Professor of English at Trinity College, Conn. She is author of Framing Feeling: Sentiment and Style in English Prose Fiction, 1745–1800 (AMS, 1994), Making the Modern Reader: Cultural Mediation in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literary Anthologies (Princeton, 1996), and Curiosity: A Cultural History of Early Modern Inquiry (Chicago, 2001).
Rori Bloom is an Assistant Professor of French at the University of Florida. Her book, Man of Quality, Man of Letters: The Abbé Prévost between Novel and Newspaper was published by Bucknell University Press in 2009.
Elizabeth A. Bohls is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Oregon, and the author of Women Travel Writers and the Language of Aesthetics, 1716–1818 (Cambridge, 1995) as well as articles on women writers, travel, aesthetics and colonialism. She co-edited, with Ian Duncan, Travel Writing 1700–1830: An Anthology (Oxford, 2005), and is finishing a book entitled Captive Spaces: The Politics of Place in the Colonial Caribbean, 1772–1833.
Jeng-Guo S. Chen is an Associate Research Fellow at Academia Sinica, Taiwan. He is interested in the Scottish Enlightenment and British Orientalism. He publishes both in Mandarin and English, including "The British View of Chinese Civilization and the Emergence of Class Consciousness" in The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation; and "Progress and Providence: the Religious Dimension in Ferguson's Discussion of Civil Society" in Adam Ferguson: History, Progress and Human Nature, ed. E. Heath and V. Merolle (Pickering & Chatto, 2008). He is currently working on a study of the Scottish Enlightenment, its embedded world views, and the intersection of its intellectual ramification with British experiences in the worlds beyond Europe.
Lisa A. Freeman is an Associate Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the author of Character's Theater: Genre and Identity on the Eighteenth-Century English Stage (Pennsylvania, 2002). She is currently working on a study entitled Antitheatricality and the Body Public: From the Renaissance to the NEA.
Humberto Garcia is an Assistant Professor of English at Vanderbilt University. He received his doctorate from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 2007 with a specialization in British Romanticism and eighteenth-century literature and a focus on Cultural and Literary Theory. He has published journal essays on the "long" history of Romantic Orientalism in English radical culture and has completed a monograph entitled Radical Islam and the English Enlightenment, 1670–1840. [End Page 257]
Sean Gaston is a Reader in English at Brunel University (London). His publications include Derrida and Disinterest (Continuum, 2005), The Impossible Mourning of Jacques Derrida (Continuum, 2006), Starting with Derrida: Plato, Aristotle and Hegel (Continuum, 2007), and Derrida, Literature and War: Absence and the Chance of Meeting (Continuum, 2009).
Michael Genovese is a doctoral candidate at the University of Virginia. His dissertation explores how overlapping discourses of sympathy and economics construct a model of eighteenth-century selfhood that is relational rather than individualistic.
David Johnson is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at the Open University. His publications include Shakespeare and South Africa (Oxford, 1996), Jurisprudence: A South African Perspective (Butterworths, 2001, principal author), and A Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literatures in English (Edinburgh and Columbia, 2005, co-editor). He is series co-editor of the Edinburgh University Press series Postcolonial Literary Studies.
Anthony W. Lee's research interests center upon Samuel Johnson and eighteenth-century literary mentoring. His books include Mentoring Relationships in the Life and Writings of Samuel Johnson: A Study in the Dynamics of Eighteenth-Century Literary Mentoring (Mellen, 2005) and Mentoring in Eighteenth-Century British Literature and Culture (Ashgate, 2010). He has published articles in several venues, including The Age of Johnson, Modern Philology, Eighteenth-Century Novel, and Texas Studies in Literature and Language. He is currently finishing a critical monograph, Dead Masters: Mentoring and Intertextuality in Samuel Johnson, and an edition, The Annotated Rambler; his next projects include a critical edition of Arthur Murphy's Essay on the Life and Genius of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., as well as a biography of Oliver Goldsmith. He currently teaches at Arkansas Tech University.
Justine S. Murison is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Illinois...
