Notes on Contributors

Yael Ben-Zvi is senior lecturer at the Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics at Ben-Gurion University. Her articles have appeared in such journals as Early American Literature, Legacy, ESQ, American Indian Quarterly, and CR. Her work on Equiano is part of a book she is completing, tentatively entitled “Native Land Talk: Colliding Birthrights in Early US Culture.”

Kathleen Donegan is an assistant professor of English and American studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Her book Seasons of Misery: Catastrophe and Colonial Settlement is forthcoming from the University of Pennsylvania Press.

Coby Dowdell is an assistant professor of modern languages at King’s University College at Western University (London, Ontario). He has recently published essays on Daniel Defoe, Algernon Sidney, and the American hermit and is revising a book-length manuscript on asceticism and political identity in the eighteenth-century transatlantic world.

Betsy Erkkila is Henry Sanborn Noyes Professor of English at Northwestern University. She is the author of numerous books and articles on American literature, including Mixed Bloods and Other Crosses: Rethinking American Literature from the Revolution to the Culture Wars (U of Pennsylvania P, 2004). She is currently completing a book entitled “Imagining the Revolution.”

Sandra M. Gustafson is the editor of this journal and the author, most recently, of Imagining Deliberative Democracy in the Early American Republic (U of Chicago P, 2011).

Ellen Hartigan-O’Connor is associate professor of history at the University of California, Davis. She is the author of The Ties That Buy: Women and Commerce in Revolutionary America (U of Pennsylvania P, 2009) and is currently working on a study of auctions and market culture in early America.

Christopher Hunter is an assistant professor of English at the California Institute of Technology. He has published essays on Benjamin Franklin’s Autobiography and the freedom of the press, and is currently completing a book-length manuscript on the print history of American autobiography.

John Mac Kilgore is an assistant professor of English at Florida State University. He is currently working on a book-length project, tentatively titled “Eleuthero-mania: American Literatures of Enthusiasm from the American Revolution to the Civil War.” His essays have also appeared in American Literature and ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance.

Edward Larkin is associate professor of English at the University of Delaware, where he also serves as director of graduate studies. He is the author of Thomas Paine and the Literature of Revolution (Cambridge UP, 2005). His current book project, which bears the working title “Early American Empire and Its Media,” traces the development of an American school of empire over the course of the eighteenth century.

Cedrick May is an associate professor of English at the University of Texas at Arlington and author of Evangelism and Resistance in the Black Atlantic, 1760–1835 (U of Georgia P, 2008). He is currently at work on a book about Jupiter Hammon’s life, literature, and the intersections between the slave and free communities he inhabited.

Julie Mccown is a PhD candidate and graduate teaching assistant at the University of Texas at Arlington. She currently is working on a project researching and creating a digital edition of Hartford Female Seminary’s handwritten newspapers from the 1820s.

Samuel Otter is professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Melville’s Anatomies (U of California P, 1999) and Philadelphia Stories: America’s Literature of Race and Freedom (Oxford UP, 2010) and the coeditor of Frederick Douglass and Herman Melville: Essays in Relation (U of North Carolina P, 2008) and Melville and Aesthetics (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011).

Jason M. Payton is an assistant professor of English at Sam Houston State University. He has recently earned his PhD in English from the University of Maryland, College Park, and is currently working on a book project entitled “Writing from the Edge of Empire: The Poetics of Piracy in the Early Modern Atlantic World.”

Yvette Piggush is assistant professor of English at Florida International University and is completing a book-length manuscript, provisionally titled “Unframing History: Images, Artifacts, and American Literature, 1790–1860.”

Phillip M. Richards is Arnold Sio Professor of Diversity...