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  • Notes on Contributors

LIESL ALLINGHAM is Associate Professor of German and German Studies at The University of the South. Her recent publications include “Countermemory in Karoline von Günderrode’s ‘Darthula nach Ossian’: A Female Warrior, Her Unruly Breast, and the Construction of Her Myth” (Goethe Yearbook) and “Mobile Mothers: Bridging Domestic Place and Public Space in the Eighteenth-Century Chivalric Dramas of Eleonore Thon and Elise Bürger” (Symposium), both in 2014.

MELISSA BAILES is Assistant Professor of English at Tulane University, specializing in British literature of the long eighteenth century (1660–1830), the history of science, transatlantic and transnational studies, and women’s writing.

ADAM R. BEACH is Professor of English at Ball State University, and has recently co-edited (with Srividhya Swaminathan) Invoking Slavery in the Eighteenth-Century British Imagination (2013). His essays on slavery and British literature have appeared in Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, and Eighteenth-Century Studies.

MARK BLACKWELL is Professor of English at the University of Hartford. His essay on experimental fictions just appeared in A Companion to the English Novel (2015), and he recently edited a collection of object and animal tales entitled British It-Narratives, 1750–1830 (2012).

VINCENT CARRETTA is a Professor of English at the University of Maryland. His recent publications include biographies of Olaudah Equiano (2006) and Phillis Wheatley (2014). He has also co-edited, with Ty M. Reese, the writings of Philip Quaque (2011). Vin’s edition of Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, an African appeared in 2015.

KIRK COMBE is a Professor of English at Denison University in Ohio. He teaches and researches in the areas of early modern British satire and drama, literary and cultural theory, and popular culture.

RICHARD FROHOCK is Professor and the head of the department of English at Oklahoma State University. His primary scholarly interest is literature concerning the British colonization of the Americas, particularly the Caribbean. [End Page 531] He currently is working on a book about British piracy narratives of the early eighteenth century.

ALEKSONDRA HULTQUIST is an Honorary Researcher for the ARC Center of Excellence for the History of Emotions, 1100–1800. She has worked as an assistant professor in the United States and a visiting lecturer in Australia. She is a Managing Editor of ABO: Interactive Journal for Women and the Arts 1640–1830 and is currently finishing her monograph, The Amatory Mode.

ELIZABETH OLDFATHER is Visiting Assistant Professor of English at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs. Dr. Oldfather received her Ph.D., along with a Certificate in Cognitive Science, from Rutgers University in May 2015. Her dissertation, “Someplace Else,” explores the eighteenth-century history and psychology of experiences of virtual presence in imagined worlds.

TARA GHOSHAL WALLACE is Professor of English at George Washington University. Her most recent book is Imperial Characters: Home and Periphery in Eighteenth-Century Literature (2010); recent articles include work on Frances Burney and Walter Scott. Her current book project is on Walter Scott and monarchy.

The Editors would like to thank LAUREN BLAIR for her editorial assistance with this issue. [End Page 532]

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