Notes on Contributors
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ralph bauer, program chair of the Tucson Summit of Early Ibero and Anglo-Americanists, is assistant professor of English at the University of Maryland. He is author of The Cultural Geography of Colonial American Literatures: Empire, Travel, Modernity (forthcoming, 2003).
joanna brooks, assistant professor of English at the University of Texas, Austin, studies early African American and Native American writings. She has published on Prince Hall and John Marrant, and with John Saillant has coedited an anthology presenting the literature of the first Black Atlantic, Facing Zion Forward (2002).
bruce burgett is associate professor of American Studies in the Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences Program at the University of Washington-Bothell, and Graduate Faculty in the English Department at the University of Washington-Seattle. He is the author of Sentimental Bodies: Sex, Gender, and Citizenship in the Early Republic (1998), and is currently working on a study of nineteenth-century sexual reform cultures.
patricia crain teaches at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, and is the author of The Story of A: The Alphabetization of America from The New England Primer to The Scarlet Letter (2000).
paul downes is an associate professor in the Department of English at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Democracy, Revolution, and Monarchism in Early American Literature (2002).
philip gura, former editor of Early American Literature, is the William S. Newman Distinguished Professor of American Literature and Culture at the University of North Carolina. The Massachusetts Historical Society has just released his Buried from the World: Inside the Massachusetts State Prison, 1829–1831, a compendium of first-person criminal histories and testimonies.
sandra m. gustafson is associate professor of English at the University of Notre Dame. She is the author of Eloquence Is Power: Oratory and Performance in Early America (2000) and is the book review editor for this journal.
mark l. kamrath is assistant professor of English at the University of Central Florida. He is co-editor of two collections of essays slated to appear shortly—one on periodicals in early America and another on Charles Brockden Brown.
edward larkin teaches in the English department at the University of Richmond and is currently serving as coordinator of the American Studies program. [End Page 187]
mason lowance, professor of English at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, known for his scholarship in Puritan typology and language and for his intellectual histories of New England, has recently edited Against Slavery: An Abolitionist Reader (2000) for Penguin Books.
h. c. maddux, assistant professor at Michigan State University, is working on the heritage of Ramism in early New England intellectual life. He is also contributing to the effort to edit and publish Cotton Mather’s Biblia Americana.
luis millones-figueroa is assistant professor of Spanish at Colby College. He is the author of Pedro de Cieza de León y su crónica de Indias. La entrada de los Incas en la Historia Universal (2001), and articles in Latin American Literary Review, Cuadernos Americanos, Coatepec, and Lucero. His current research focuses on natural histories of the New World.
dana d. nelson is professor of English and Social Theory at the University of Kentucky. She is working on learning Spanish, and on her book project “Representative/Democracy.”
andrew newman is a graduate student in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine.
lisa west norwood, assistant professor of English at Drake University, is working on “place,” history, and environment in early American writings.
daphne o’brien, Early American Literature’s editorial associate, received her Ph.D. in American literature from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She currently works as a contract editor for Oxford University Press and lives on a flower farm in eastern North Carolina.
jeffrey h. richards is professor of English at Old Dominion University and author of several works on early American drama. He is currently a member of the editorial board of Early American Literature.
ivy schweitzer is associate professor of English at Dartmouth College, and also teaches in the Women’s Studies, Comparative Literature, and Jewish Studies Programs. Most recently, she has coedited a collection of primary texts with Susan Castillo...
