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douglas anderson’s most recent book, The Unfinished Life of Benjamin Franklin, was published in 2012 by Johns Hopkins University Press. His new book, “Mark Twain’s Art, an Inside Excursion,” is nearing completion. He is the Sterling-Goodman Professor of English at the University of Georgia.
ann beebe is associate professor and director of undergraduate studies in English at the University of Texas at Tyler. Her research interests include the works of E. D. E. N. Southworth, Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Frederick Douglass, and Emily Dickinson as well as literature pedagogy. Her most recent article can be found in Women’s Studies’ special issue on The Female American (1767).
michelle burnham is professor of English at Santa Clara University, where she teaches early American literature, the novel, and popular culture. She is currently writing a book, “The Revolutionary Pacific: Transoceanic Writing and the Calculus of Risk.”
matt cohen is the author of The Networked Wilderness: Communicating in Early New England (U of Minnesota P, 2010) and the coeditor, with Jeffrey Glover, of Colonial Mediascapes: Sensory Worlds of the Early Americas (U of Nebraska P, 2014). He teaches in the Department of English at the University of Texas at Austin, and is a contributing editor at the online Walt Whitman Archive.
kimberly rae connor is professor in the School of Management at the University of San Francisco. She is the author of Conversions and Visions in the Writings of African American Women (U of Tennessee P, 1994) and Imagining Grace: Liberating Theologies in the Slave Narrative Tradition (U of Illinois P, 2000). She has written on African American religious life and cultural production and multicultural and Ignatian pedagogy. She has been active as an editor for Oxford University Press and in service to the American Academy of Religion. She is a weekly field trip leader at 826 Valencia, an organization dedicated to helping children develop writing skills. She blogs for The Huffington Post on how humanistic inquiry can help develop the careers of students in management.
matthew duquès is assistant professor of English at the University of North Alabama, where he teaches courses in early American literature and literary theory. He is currently working on a manuscript titled “The Odyssey in the Wilderness: Post-War Hospitality and Homecoming in Early American Literature.”
mary eyring is assistant professor of English at Brigham Young University, where she teaches courses on early American literature and early American studies. Her [End Page 753] research focuses on the Atlantic world, particularly disability, print culture, and women’s writing and cultural productions during the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Her book The Capital of Charity: The Writing and Wages of Post-Revolutionary Atlantic Benevolence (U P of New England, forthcoming) explores the emergence of the American nonprofit space as it was forged through mutually supportive relationships among literary production, benevolence, and maritime trade during an era of nascent capitalism.
jeffrey glover is an associate professor in the Department of English at Loyola University Chicago. He is the author of Paper Sovereigns: Anglo-Native Treaties and the Law of Nations, 1604–1664 (U of Pennsylvania P, 2014) and coeditor, with Matt Cohen, of Colonial Mediascapes: Sensory Worlds of the Early Americas (U of Nebraska P, 2014).
philip gould is Nicholas Brown Professor of Oratory and Belles Lettres and chair of English at Brown University. He is author of Covenant and Republic: Historical Romance and the Politics of Puritanism (Cambridge UP, 1996), Barbaric Traffic: Commerce and Antislavery in the 18th Century Atlantic World (Harvard UP, 2003), and, most recently, Writing the Rebellion: Loyalists and the Literature of Politics in British America (Oxford UP, 2013).
david holland is associate professor of North American religious history at the Harvard Divinity School. He is the author of Sacred Borders: Continuing Revelation and Canonical Restraint (Oxford UP, 2011). He is currently at work on a comparative study of Ellen White and Mary Baker Eddy, as well as an intellectual biography of Perry Miller.
maeve kane is assistant professor of early American history at the University at Albany, State University of New York. Her manuscript in progress examines Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) women’s use of clothing from the...
