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  • Notes on Contributors

ralph bauer, program chair of the Tucson Summit of Early Ibero- and Anglo-Americanists, teaches English at the University of Maryland. He is author of The Cultural Geography of Colonial American Literatures: Empire, Travel, Modernity (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2003).

catherine la courreye blecki co-edited with Karin Wulf Milcah Martha Moore’s Book, one of the richest manuscript collections of women’s writings composed in British America and containing the bulk of the surviving poetry of Susanna Wright. A professor emerita of English from San Jose State, she belongs to San Diego Independent Scholars.

david j. carlson is assistant professor of English at California State University, San Bernardino, where he teaches Early American and Native American literature. He has published articles in Studies in Puritan American Spirituality (on Edward Taylor) and American Indian Quarterly (on Charles Eastman). He is currently revising a book manuscript that explores the intersection between Native American autobiographical writing and Anglo-American legal discourse.

vincent carretta, professor of English at the University of Maryland, is an expert on late eighteenth-century English visual culture and also of Anglo-African writings. His landmark Penguin collection of the writings of Equiano, expanded with a host of newly discovered texts, will appear in his second edition in 2003.

jim egan is director of Graduate Studies in English at Brown University. Known for his 1999 study Authorizing Experience: Refigurations of the Body Politic in Seventeenth-Century New England Writing (Princeton Univ. Press), he is currently writing about various conceptions of collectivity other than the nation imagined by British-American colonists and United States citizens from approximately 1689 to 1820.

philip gould is director of Undergraduate Studies in English at Brown University and president of the Society Early Americanists. His Barbaric Traffic, a meditation on the literature of abolition and the discourse of race, will be published by Harvard University Press in 2004.

marion rust is assistant professor of English at the University of Virginia. She is currently completing her first book, called Beyond Charlotte Temple: Susanna Rowson and the American Sentimental.

lorett treese is the college archivist at Bryn Mawr College and a regional historian specializing in the history of Pennsylvania State. She has written dozens [End Page 335] of articles for newspapers and magazines as well as seven books, including The Storm Gathering: The Penn Family and the American Revolution.

zubeda jalalzai is an assistant professor of English at Rhode Island College in Providence, Rhode Island, specializing in early American Literature and postcolonial theory. She is completing a manuscript entitled Puritan Imperialisms. She is also the author of articles on Native American literature, as well as early American and postcolonial literature and theory. [End Page 336]

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