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  • Contributors to Volume 46

R. S. Agin is Associate Professor of French and Italian at Duquesne University. His research focuses on the aesthetic and scientific cultures of enlightenment Europe. He is the editor of Sex Education in Eighteenth-Century France (2011) and, more recently, the translator, with Maria Elena Versari, of Umberto Boccioni’s Futurist Painting Sculpture (Plastic Dynamism) (2016).

Amelia Dale is a Lecturer in the English Department at the University of Sydney. Recent publications include “‘Acting it As She Reads’: Affective Impressions in Polly Honeycombe” in Passions, Sympathy and Print Culture (2015) and “Dolly’s Inch of Red Seal Wax: Impressing the Reader in Tristram Shandy” in Sterne, Tristram, Yorick (2016). She is an associate investigator with the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in the history of emotion. She is currently working on a monograph on impressions and reproduction in eighteenth-century British quixotic narratives.

Elena Deanda-Camacho is Associate Professor at Washington College, and she specializes in eighteenth-century pornographic literature in Spanish and Spanish American literature. She has published in academic journals in Mexico, United States, and Canada. In 2014, she edited the Vanderbilt e-Journal of Luso-Hispanic Studies, “Silence Revisited: Regulation, Censorship, and Freedom of Speech” (v.10). The essay for SECC derives from her NEMLA-sponsored research at the Vatican Library and France’s Bastille Archives in 2014.

Julia Doe is Assistant Professor of Music at Columbia University. She is a specialist in the music, literature, and politics of the French Enlightenment, with a particular focus on lyric theater and the history of theatrical institutions. Her current book project examines the influence of Bourbon patronage on the development of opéra-comique in the final decades of the ancien régime. Excerpts from this work have appeared in The Journal of the American Musicological Society and The Opera Journal.

Richard Frohock is an English Professor and Department Chair at Oklahoma State University. He is the author of Heroes of Empire (2004) and Buccaneers of America (2012), as well as various articles on the literary history of the early Americas, particularly the West Indies. He currently is at work on a book on English piracy narratives of the early eighteenth century.

Michael B. Guenther is an Assistant Professor of History at Grinnell College, where he teaches courses in environmental history, science and technology studies, and the broader Atlantic World. He is currently finishing a book project entitled Science and the Civic Awakening: The Politics of Knowledge in the Age of Improvement that examines the [End Page 261] ways that the expanding culture of science transformed the social, environmental, and political landscape of Anglo-American society in the eighteenth century.

Aaron R. Hanlon is Assistant Professor of English at Colby College. His book project The Politics of Quixotism is a study of Don Quixote’s contributions to political theory, particularly to British and American exceptionalisms in the long eighteenth century. In addition to published work in The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, Studies in the Novel, and elsewhere, he has forthcoming articles in New Literary History and Modern Philology.

Catherine Jaffe is Professor of Spanish at Texas State University. Her research focuses on women writers, quixotism, gender, translation, and reading in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. She is the co-editor, with Elizabeth Franklin Lewis, of Eve’s Enlightenment: Women’s Experience in Spain and Spanish America, 1726–1839 (2009). She is preparing 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.

Rita Krueger is Associate Professor of History at Temple University. She is the author of Czech, German, and Noble: Status and National Identity in Habsburg Bohemia (2009), and she co-edited, with Ivo Cerman and Susan Reynolds, The Enlightenment in Bohemia: Religion, Morality, and Multiculturalism (2011). Her current project is a biography of Empress Maria Theresa. She will be a Faculty Fellow at the Center for the Humanities at Temple University during 2016–2017.

Elizabeth Franklin Lewis is Professor of Spanish at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, VA. She is the author of, Women Writers in the...

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