Contributors' Notes
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david anthony is professor and chair in the English Department at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. He is the author of Paper Money Men: Commerce, Manhood, and the Sensational Public Sphere in Antebellum America (Ohio State UP, 2009). He is currently working on a book entitled The Money Changers: Jews, Conversion, and the Fiscal Imaginary in Antebellum America. Portions of this study appear in American Literary History (Fall 2014) and American Literature (June 2019).
richard a. bailey, associate professor of history at Canisius College in Buffalo, New York, is the author of Race and Redemption in Puritan New England (Oxford UP, 2011). In addition to continuing to explore the intersections of race and religion in colonial New England, he is currently pursuing several projects focused on the life and writings of the author Wendell Berry.
michael boyden is associate professor of American literature at Uppsala University, Sweden. He is the author of Predicting the Past: The Paradoxes of American Literary History (Leuven UP, 2009). He is currently working on a book provisionally entitled "Climate and Sensibility in American Literature, 1780–1860." He is also assembling a collected volume entitled Climate in American Literature and Culture (forthcoming at Cambridge UP).
carrie tirado bramen is professor of English at the University at Buffalo and director of the university's Gender Institute. She is the author of two books, American Niceness: A Cultural History (Harvard UP, 2017) and The Uses of Variety: Modern Americanism and the Quest for National Distinctiveness (Harvard UP, 2000). The latter was co-winner of the Thomas J. Wilson Prize for best first book published by Harvard University Press. She has written for the Washington Post, The Conversation, Black Agenda Report, Political Theology Network, and Times Higher Education. Her essay, "Niceness in a Neoliberal Age," appeared in Public Culture (May 2018).
juliane braun is assistant professor of English at Auburn University, where she specializes in multilingual and transnational literatures of the early Americas. Her first book, Creole Drama: Theatre and Society in Antebellum New Orleans, was published by the University of Virginia Press in 2019. This essay emerged from the research on her second book, tentatively titled "Translating the Pacific: Imperial Imaginations, Nature Writing, and Early Modern Print Cultures."
sarah e. chinn is the chair of the English Department at Hunter College, CUNY. Her most recent book is Spectacular Men: Race, Gender, and Nation on the Early American Stage (Oxford UP, 2017), which won the 2017 Theatre Library Association George Freedley Memorial Award for an exemplary work in the field of live theater or performance. She is currently working on a manuscript on Reconstruction, white radicals, and the representation of amputation.
julia dauer is a postdoctoral research associate and lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Virginia. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers, Common-Place: The Journal of Early American Life, Edge Effects, and Avidly.
joseph fichtelberg's most recent book is Risk Culture: Performance and Danger in Early America (U of Michigan P, 2010). He teaches at Hofstra University.
helen kilburn was awarded her PhD in April 2019 from the University of Manchester, is a former Lord Baltimore Fellow (Maryland Historical Society), and received the Catholic Record Society PhD Studentship in 2017. Kilburn is a historian of the influence of the Reformation on the sociocultural development of slave societies in the early modern British Americas with a particular interest in recusant Catholicism. Her future projects include converting her thesis into a monograph and developing the "Romish Empire?" project, which will examine British and Irish Catholic lay and religious slaveholding across the Atlantic basin before the American Revolution.
stephanie kirk is professor of Hispanic studies and women, gender and sexuality Studies at Washington University in St. Louis. She is the author of two books, Convent Life in Colonial Mexico: A Tale of Two Communities (UP of Florida, 2007) and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and the Gender Politics of Knowledge in Colonial Mexico (Routledge, 2016). She is currently working on two projects: a monograph entitled "Global Martyrs: Jesuit Missionaries in Early Modern England, Ireland, and the Hispanic World" and a critical edition and translation...
