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wendy bellion is associate professor of art history at the University of Delaware. She has published widely on early American art and material culture, including Citizen Spectator: Art, Illusion, and Visual Perception in Early National America (UNC P for OIEAHC, 2011), which was awarded the Charles C. Eldredge Prize by the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

christopher castiglia is coeditor of J19: the Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists and is the author of Practices of Hope: Literary Criticism in Disenchanted Times, forthcoming from New York University Press.

edward cahill is associate professor of English and American studies at Fordham University and the author of Liberty of the Imagination: Aesthetics, Literary Form, and Politics in the Early United States (U of Pennsylvania P, 2012). He is currently writing a book about Benjamin Franklin and upward mobility in the early Atlantic world.

lorrayne carroll is an associate professor of English and a member of the faculty of the Women and Gender Studies Department at the University of Southern Maine. Her teaching and scholarship are in the fields of early American studies, nativeand indigenous studies, and literacy studies. She also writes on the rhetorical forms, and their consequences, of neoliberal economics.

russ castronovo is Tom Paine Professor of English and Dorothy Draheim Professor of American Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. His most recent book is Propaganda 1776: Secrets, Leaks, and Revolutionary Communications in Early America (Oxford UP, 2014).

jennifer clark is a historian and head of the School of Humanities at the University of Adelaide, Australia. Her most recent book is The American Idea of England, 1776–1840: Transatlantic Writing (Ashgate, 2013).

elizabeth maddock dillon is professor of English at Northeastern University, where she co-directs the Northeastern University Lab for Texts, Maps, and Networks. She is also the co-director of the Futures of American Studies Institute at Dartmouth College. She is the author, most recently, of New World Drama: The Performative Commons in the Atlantic World, 1649–1849 (Duke UP, 2014), which received the Barnard Hewitt Award for Outstanding Research in Theatre History from the American Society for Theatre Research, and Honorable Mention for the 2015 John Hope Franklin Prize from the American Studies Association. Her coedited volume (with Michael Drexler), The Haitian Revolution and the Early U.S.: [End Page 537] Histories, Geographies, Textualities, is forthcoming from the University of Pennsylvania Press.

eliga gould is chair of the Department of History at the University of New Hampshire. His most recent book is Among the Powers of the Earth: The American Revolution and the Making of a New World Empire (Harvard UP, 2012; paperback, 2014). Named a Library Journal Best Book of the Year, it received the SHEAR Book Prize from the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic and was a finalist for the George Washington Book Prize. A Japanese-language edition will be published in 2016. He is currently writing a short book, “The World of the American Revolution,” for Princeton University Press and is in the early stages of a hemispheric history of the peace treaty that ended the American Revolutionary War in 1783.

philip gould is chair of the English Department at Brown University and continues to work on issues in early American literary studies.

matthew rainbow hale, associate professor of history, Goucher College, won the Ralph D. Gray Prize for his Journal of the Early Republic article “On Their Tiptoes: Political Time and Newspapers during the Advent of the Radicalized French Revolution, circa 1792–1793.” He is also the author of “Regenerating the World: The French Revolution, Civic Festivals, and the Forging of Modern American Democracy, 1793–1795” (forthcoming, Journal of American History) and “The French Revolution and the Forging of Modern American Democracy” (under contract, U of Virginia P).

lucia hodgson is assistant professor of English at Texas A&M University, where she teaches nineteenth-century American literature and children’s literature. She is the author of Raised in Captivity: Why Does America Fail Its Children? (Graywolf, 1997), as well as the founder and convener of the Glasscock Center’s Critical Childhood Studies humanities working group. She is currently completing her first book manuscript, tentatively titled “Age of Consent: Slavery...

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