Notes on Contributors
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Nicole N. Aljoe is an assistant professor in the Department of English at Northeastern University, where she teaches courses in early black Atlantic literature, the slave narrative, and the eighteenth-century British novel. Her recently completed manuscript So Much Things to Say: The Creole Testimony of British West Indian Slaves (1709–1838) is forthcoming from a major university press. Recent publications include “Teaching Caribbean Slave Narratives,” which will appear in Options for Teaching: Anglophone Caribbean Literature, published by the MLA.
Christopher Apap, of Oakland University, is currently completing a study of the local geographic imagination in Jacksonian America. A portion of this research recently appeared in a special issue of the Journal of the Early Republic dedicated to the intersection of political and literary rhetoric before 1830.
Angela Calcaterra is a PhD candidate and Sequoyah Dissertation Fellow at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Her dissertation, “Locating Natives in American Literary History,” draws together Native American and Euro-American literatures, material practices, histories, and concepts of space and place in order to trace an interactive, composite tradition of American literature in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Bill Christopherson, an independent scholar, has published articles on Nathaniel Hawthorne and Charles Brockden Brown. His book The Apparition in the Glass: Charles Brockden Brown’s American Gothic was published by the University of Georgia Press in 1994. He is working on a book about Cooper’s Leatherstocking Tales.
Jonathan Elmer’s most recent book is On Lingering and Being Last: Race and Sovereignty in the New World (Fordham UP, 2008). He is at work on a project examining the paradigm of “play” and its implications for cultural and literary interpretation.
Gene Andrew Jarrett is associate professor of English and African American studies at Boston University, and currently Walter Jackson Bate Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. He is the author of two books, Deans and Truants: Race and Realism in African American Literature (U of Pennsylvania P, 2007) and Representing the Race: A New Political History of African American Literature (New York UP, 2011). He is also the editor of several books, including The New Negro: Readings on Race, Representation, and African American Culture, 1892–1938 (Princeton UP, 2007) and A Companion to African American Literature (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010). [End Page 423]
Robert S. Levine is professor of English and Distinguished Scholar-Teacher at the University of Maryland, College Park. His most recent books are Dislocating Race and Nation (U of North Carolina P, 2008) and The Works of James M. Whitfield (U of North Carolina P, 2011), which he coedited with Ivy G. Wilson.
Joyce G. Macdonald is an associate professor of English at the University of Kentucky, where she teaches courses on Renaissance drama. She is currently working on a book, New World Shakespeares, about race, performance, and Shakespearean adaptation in the Americas.
Birgit Brander Rasmussen is an assistant professor of American studies at Yale University, where she teaches American literature and ethnic studies. She recently completed Queequeg’s Coffin: Indigenous Literacies and the Making of Early American Literature, to be published by Duke University Press. Her recent publications include “‘Attended with Great Inconveniences’: Slave Literacy and the 1740 South Carolina ‘Negro Act’” in PMLA.
John Saillant’s essay on David Walker, “Aspirant Citizenship,” was published in Beyond Douglass (Bucknell UP, 2008), edited by Michael Drexler and Edward White, and his public lecture, “‘Profitable Reading’: Literacy, Christianity, and Constitutionalism in Olaudah Equiano’s Interesting Narrative,” delivered at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus (2009), is forthcoming in a volume on Equiano in the classroom, edited by Eric Lamore. [End Page 424]
