Contributors to Volume 45
- Contributors to Volume 45
María Soledad Barbón is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. She is the author of Peruanische Satire am Vorabend der Unabhängigkeit (Geneva, Droz, 2001) as well as of numerous articles on eighteenth-century Peruvian literature and culture. She is currently working on a book-length project tentatively entitled Ambiguous Loyalties: Celebrating the Monarchy in Bourbon Lima.
Dwight Codr is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Connecticut, Storrs. His articles have appeared in Philological Quarterly, Religion in the Age of Enlightenment, and PMLA. His first book, Raving at Usurers: Anti-Finance and the Ethics of Uncertainty in England, 1690–1750 (University of Virginia Press, 2016), traces the legacy of early modern anti-usury discourse in eighteenth-century English literature and culture. His current work explores the relationship between political economy, abstraction, and figuration.
Cecilia Feilla is Associate Professor of English and Chair of the Department of English and World Literature at Marymount Manhattan College. Her research focuses primarily on theater and performance in the eighteenth century with special emphasis on issues of gender and genre; she has also written extensively on letter writing, translation, and epistolary genres in Enlightenment France and England. Her most recent book is The Sentimental Theater of the French Revolution (Ashgate, 2013). She is currently working on a book examining seduction and education in eighteenth-century novels and plays.
John Greene is a Professor of French at the University of Louisville. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Dorothy S. Ludwig Excellence in Teaching Award of the American Association of Teachers of French (AATF) and the ASECS Innovative Course Design Competition. The French government has named him a Chevalier in the Ordre des Palmes académiques. His research focuses primarily on the representation of material culture in Enlightenment French fiction and maritime narratives. His published work on objects includes topics as varied as carriages, interior design, hot air balloons, beauty products and items exchanged between French explorers and South Sea islanders.
Catherine Jaffe is Professor of Spanish at Texas State University. Her research focuses on Spanish women writers and gender, translation, and reading in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Spain. She co-edited Eve’s Enlightenment: Women’s Experience in Spain and Spanish America, 1726–1839 (2009). She is completing an edition and biography of María Lorenza de los Ríos, Marquesa de Fuerte-Híjar (1761–1821), for which she received an ASECS Women’s Caucus Editing and Translation Fellowship. [End Page 267]
Amanda Louise Johnson earned her PhD in English from Vanderbilt University in 2013, and is currently a Lecturer in English at Rice University. She completed her dissertation, Romances of the New World, with supporting grants from Vanderbilt University, the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, University of Virginia, and the Newberry Library in Chicago, Illinois. Her article on William Hazlitt’s theory of the imagination is in print in European Romantic Review as well as another article on Thomas Jefferson’s Old English translation of the Book of Genesis, forthcoming in Modern Philology. She wants to thank the Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society and the readers at Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture for supporting this essay’s publication.
Betty Joseph is an associate professor in the Department of English at Rice University. She is the author of Reading the East India Company, 1720-1840: Colonial Currencies of Gender, and her most recent publications include essays on neoliberal allegory in contemporary fiction, and rogue literature in eighteenth-century England.
Daniel Leonard is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Program for Cultures, Civilizations and Ideas at Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey. His research focuses on the mediation of relations connecting philosophy, literature, the history of science, and aesthetics in France during the long eighteenth-century. He is currently working on a larger project tracing the use of both literary devices and artistic analogies in French Enlightenment treatments of the senses and passions. He has given papers and published on Descartes, Diderot, Condillac and de Brosses. He has also recently completed an English translation of Charles de Brosses’s Du Culte des Dieux Fetiches (On...
