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  • Notes on Contributors

ian j. aebel is an independent scholar of early modern British and Spanish American historiography and print culture. Having earned his PhD from the University of New Hampshire, he is completing a book manuscript on Anglo-American historical thought in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. His most recent article, “Textual Colonization: The Many American Histories of Richard Eden,” appeared in Storia della Storiografia (2013).

joshua david bellin teaches American literature, writing, and environmental literature at La Roche College in Pittsburgh. When not publishing literary scholarship, he writes novels for young readers. Forthcoming works include Scavenger of Souls, a young adult science fiction novel slated for publication in summer 2016, and “Red Walden,” an essay on Thoreau and Native Americans that will appear in a volume commemorating Thoreau’s two hundredth birthday in 2017.

wilson brissett is associate professor of English at the United States Air Force Academy. His most recent article, “Jonathan Edwards’ White Theology,” is forthcoming in ELH. He is currently at work on a book project, “Inventing True Religion,” about race and empire in the early evangelical historical imagination.

melissa brotton has presented at various conferences (ASLE, ISSRNC, PAMLA, and various regional CCLs) on the subject of ecotheodicy in the Brownings’ poetry. She is currently editing two books on ecotheology and nonhuman ethics for Lexington Books.

benjamin j. doty is a PhD candidate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he is completing his dissertation, “The Anatomy of Conscience: Science, Ethics, and Religion in Nineteenth-Century American Literature.” His essay on the science of digestion and Moby-Dick is forthcoming in Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies.

elizabeth fenton is associate professor of English at the University of Vermont. She is currently coediting a collection of essays assessing The Book of Mormon’s place in nineteenth-century American literature, and she is writing a book on the Hebraic Indian theory in the early United States.

lora geriguis is associate professor and chair of English at La Sierra University (Riverside, CA). She has published on space and placelessness in Daniel Defoe’s Captain Singleton (Topographies of Imagination, AMS), on grammatical anomalies in John Donne’s poetry (The Explicator), and on staging nationalistic masculinity (Restoration and Eighteenth Century Theatre Research). Her current book [End Page 231] project involves examining English texts between 1650 and 1750 for evidence of consciousness of environmental scarcity, dependence, and degradation.

michelle granshaw is assistant professor of theatre arts at the University of Pittsburgh. In addition to her award-winning recent article in Theatre Survey, she has published in Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film, Journal of American Drama and Theatre, New England Theatre Journal, and Theatre Topics. Her book manuscript examines the relationship between the Irish-American working class and nineteenth-century popular entertainment.

april haynes is assistant professor of history at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She is the author of Riotous Flesh: Women, Physiology, and the Solitary Vice in Nineteenth-Century America (U of Chicago P, 2015). Her research has been funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Massachusetts Historical Society, the American Antiquarian Society, and the Social Science Research Council and has appeared in the Journal of the History of Sexuality, American Sexual Histories, and Women’s Activism and ‘Second Wave’ Feminism: Transnational Histories.

kolby knight is a PhD student in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He studies nineteenth-century American religious history, with particular interest in how ideas about Catholicism and Catholics themselves have influenced religious and legal discourses in the United States. His current work focuses on nineteenth-century public school debates involving “nonsectarian” and “secular” education.

sam mcbride is coauthor (with Candice Fredrick) of Women among the Inklings: Gender, C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Charles Williams (2002). He teaches American literature at La Sierra University. His current scholarly project is an examination of divine intervention in Tolkien’s legendarium, tentatively titled “Middle-earth Metaphysics.”

peter mondelli is assistant professor of music history at the University of North Texas’s College of Music. He is completing a book project titled “Opera, Print, and Capital in Nineteenth-Century Paris.” In addition to research...

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