Notes on Contributors
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Todd Barosky received his PhD with an American studies certificate from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York in 2010. He is currently at work on a book project that investigates the relationship between counterfeit money and generic change in early American literature.
Jeffrey Bilbro is an assistant professor of English at Spring Arbor University. He has recently published essays on Mark Twain and Wendell Berry and is revising a book-length manuscript on the influence of faith in American environmental writing.
Katherine Gaudet recently finished her doctorate at the University of Chicago, where she wrote a dissertation about transatlantic readership and antinovelism. She is currently assistant director of the Honors Program at the University of New Hampshire, and is working on a project about bankruptcy in the early United States.
Jenny Heil was awarded the Best Essay of 2011 by the Society of Early Americanists as well as the Albert M. Greenfield Foundation Dissertation Fellowship at the Library Company of Philadelphia, the Isaac Comly Fund Fellowship at the American Philosophical Society, the Lillian Gary Taylor Visiting Fellowship in American Literature at the University of Virginia Library's Mary and David Harrison Institute for American History, Literature, and Culture, and the Dean's Teaching Fellowship at Emory University. She is an assistant professor of English at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi.
C. Michael Hurst is a doctoral candidate in literature at the University at Buffalo. His dissertation examines the intersection between Transcendentalist epistemology, ethics, and corporeality. He has recently received an Advanced PhD Fellowship for the 2013-14 school year from the University at Buffalo Humanities Institute and previously published an article on Margaret Fuller's Transcendental feminism in Arizona Quarterly (Winter 2010). He also recently completed a Signature Edition of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle for the Barnes and Noble Press, which is forthcoming in late 2012.
Catherine O'Donnell is the author of Men of Letters in the Early Republic: Cultivating Forums of Citizenship (U of North Carolina P, 2008) and is currently writing a biography of Elizabeth Seton. She is an associate professor of history at Arizona State University.
Susan Scott parrish is associate professor of English at the University of Michigan. [End Page 721] She is the author of American Curiosity: Cultures of Natural History in the Colonial British Atlantic World (Omohundro Inst. of Early Amer. Hist. and Culture for U of North Carolina P, 2006) and is currently working on a new book-length project, provisionally titled, "Noah's Kin: Southern Floods and Forms of Modern Experience."
Camilla Townsend is professor of history at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. She is the author of several books on the colonial experience in the Americas, among them Malintzin's Choices: An Indian Woman in the Conquest of Mexico (U of New Mexico P, 2006) and Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma (Hill and Wang, 2004).
Angela Vietto is professor of English at Eastern Illinois University. She is the author of Women and Authorship in Revolutionary America (Ashgate, 2006) and coeditor of a critical edition of Hannah Webster Foster's The Coquette and The Boarding School (Broadview, 2011).
Caroline Wigginton is an ACLS New Faculty Fellow in American studies at Rutgers University. She is working on a book titled "Epistolary Neighborhoods: Intimacy, Women's Writing, and Circulation in Eighteenth-Century North America." She is coeditor of Transatlantic Feminisms in the Age of Revolutions (Oxford UP, 2012), and her essay on motherhood and interracial intimacy in Sarah Osborn's eighteenth-century spiritual diary appeared in Early American Literature 47.1.
Brian Yothers is associate professor of English at the University of Texas at El Paso. He is the author of Melville's Mirrors: Literary Criticism and America's Most Elusive Author (Camden House, 2011) and The Romance of the Holy Land in American Travel Writing, 1790-1876 (Ashgate, 2007) and a coeditor of Journeys: The International Journal of Travel and Travel Writing. [End Page 722]
