Notes on Contributors
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Ben Bascom is a PhD student in the department of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has presented conference papers on nineteenth-century ballooning and Jacksonian-era novel reading.
Kristina Bross is associate professor of English and American studies at Purdue University, where she regularly teaches historical fiction in her classes. She is the author of Dry Bones and Indian Sermons: Praying Indians in Colonial America (Cornell UP, 2004) and coeditor with Hilary Wyss of Early Native Literacies in New England: A Documentary and Critical Anthology (U of Massachusetts P, 2008). Currently she serves as the vice president of the Society of Early Americanists.
Chiara Cillerai is assistant professor in the Institute for Writing Studies at St. John's University, New York, where she teaches writing and literature courses. She has published articles on early American literary culture and has recently completed a book manuscript entitled "The Voices of Cosmopolitanism in Early American Culture."
Susan Curtis has been teaching history and American studies at Purdue since 1989. She is the author of four books, A Consuming Faith: The Social Gospel and Modern American Culture (Johns Hopkins UP, 1991), Dancing to a Black Man's Tune: A Life of Scott Joplin (U of Missouri P, 1994), The First Black Actors on the Great White Way (U of Missouri P, 1998), and Colored Memories: A Biographer's Quest for the Elusive Lester A. Walton (U of Missouri P, 2008). She currently serves as director of the American Studies Program.
Ian Finseth is the author of Shades of Green: Visions of Nature in the Literature of American Slavery, 1770-1860 (U of Georgia P, 2009) and the editor of The American Civil War: A Literary and Historical Anthology, 2nd edition (Routledge, 2013). He is presently at work coediting, with Nicole Aljoe of Northeastern University, a collection of essays on the early slave narrative.
John Funchion is assistant professor of English at the University of Miami. His manuscript entitled "States of Nostalgia: The Aesthetics of Antagonism in Nineteenth-Century America" is under review. His work has previously appeared in journals such as Modernist Cultures and MLQ. He is currently working on a collection of essays on early American regionalism, coedited with Keri Holt and Edward Watts.
Theresa Strouth Gaul is associate professor of English and director of women's studies at Texas Christian University. Her books include Cherokee Sister: The Collected [End Page 281] Writings of Catharine Brown, 1818-1823 (U of Nebraska P, forthcoming 2013), To Marry an Indian: The Marriage of Harriett Gold and Elias Boudinot in Letters, 1823-1839 (U of North Carolina P, 2005), and Letters and Cultural Transformations in the United States, 1760-1860, coedited with Sharon M. Harris (Ashgate, 2009). She is series editor of the Legacies of Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers Series, published by the University of Nebraska Press, and coeditor of Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers.
James M. Greene is a PhD student in English at West Virginia University. His dissertation examines personal narratives published by veterans of the Revolutionary War.
Louisa Hall is a PhD candidate at the University of Texas at Austin. She is currently working on a dissertation about poets who use lyric techniques to escape from various types of confinement. Her first novel, The Carriage House, will be published by Scribner in March.
Carl Robert Keyes is assistant professor of history at Assumption College in Worcester, Massachusetts. He is currently revising a book manuscript on advertising practices, marketing, and consumer culture in eighteenth-century America.
Greta L. Lafleur is assistant professor of English at the University of Hawai`i at Manoa. She is working on a book project that focuses on popular literatures of the long eighteenth century, and the history of sexuality.
Lisa M. Logan is an associate professor at the University of Central Florida, where she teaches courses in American literature, women's literature, and feminist theory. She has published numerous articles on early North American women's personal narratives and Resources for Teaching the Bedford Anthology of American Literature, vol. 1
Bridget M. Marshall is associate professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell. She is the author...
