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  • Notes on Contributors

LISA A. FREEMAN is Professor and Head of the English Department at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her most recent book, Antitheatricality and the Body Public (2017), explores the politics and the public bodies that form around anti-theatrical controversies dating from the Renaissance to the present day.

JENNIFER GOLIGHTLY is the author of a monograph, The Family, Marriage, and Radicalism in British Women's Novels of the 1790s: Public Affection and Private Affliction (2011), as well as "Reproduction in the 1790s," a chapter in The Secrets of Generation: Reproduction in the Long Eighteenth Century (2015).

JAN GOLINSKI is Professor of History and Humanities at the University of New Hampshire and Vice-President of the History of Science Society. His most recent book is The Experimental Self: Humphry Davy and the Making of a Man of Science (2016).

COLLIN JENNINGS is Assistant Professor of English at Miami University. His work has appeared in English Literary History, Literary and Linguistic Computing, and Eighteenth-Century Life. His current book project uses a new media perspective to explore forms of linguistic and material arrangement afforded by innovative eighteenth-century print genres.

RICHARD J. JONES is a lecturer in English Literature at The Open University in the United Kingdom. He is the author of Tobias Smollett in the Enlightenment: Travels Through France Italy and Scotland (2011) and recent articles on Smollett's work of writing in the Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies (2018) and Literature Compass (2018).

ROBERT MAHONY retired as Professor in English and Irish Studies from Catholic University, Washington, D.C., in 2012. He is the author of Jonathan Swift: The Irish Identity (1995) and various articles on Swift.

NATHAN PETERSON completed his dissertation, "Picaresque Necessity: Episodic Narrative Structure and Causality in the Long Eighteenth Century" in October 2016. His work has also been published in Philological Quarterly.

ORIANNE SMITH is Associate Professor in English at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). Her first book, Romantic Women Writers, Revolution and Prophecy: 1786–1826, was published in 2013. It received the 2015 First Book Award from the British Association of Romantic Studies.

JANE WESSEL is Assistant Professor of English at Austin Peay State University, where she specializes in eighteenth-century literature and theater history. Her work has appeared in Theatre Survey and Restoration: Studies in English Literary Culture, 1660–1700. She is currently working on a book on literary property and dramatic authorship in eighteenth-century England.

PIERCE WILLIAMS is a Ph.D. candidate in Literary and Cultural Studies at Carnegie Mellon University. His dissertation, "Impolite Science: Print and Performance in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic," examines the reception of scientific print among non-expert social groups in Britain and its North American colonies.

The Editors wish to thank the following Editorial Assistants for their work on this issue: Madison Durham, Elizabeth Henderson, Danica McCallister, Michael C. Morris, Dylan M. Sanchez, Dennison Ty Schulz, and Jade Visos-Ely.

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