Notes on Contributors
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ann beebe is associate professor and director of undergraduate studies in English at the University of Texas at Tyler. She has published articles on the works of Phillis Wheatley, Edward Taylor, Catharine Maria Sedgwick, William Cullen Bryant, Henry David Thoreau, E. D. E. N. Southworth, and Emily Dickinson. Her sophomore-level course, “Reading American Leadership,” guides students through pre-1865 American essays and speeches as they learn how to analyze texts, identify leadership traits, and apply those traits to their twenty-first-century lives.
joshua david bellin teaches American, Native American, and environmental literature at La Roche University in Pittsburgh. His books include The Demon of the Continent: Indians and the Shaping of American Literature (U Penn, 2001) and Medicine Bundle: Indian Sacred Performance and American Literature, 1824–1932 (U Penn, 2007). His essays on Thoreau and American Indians have been featured in the New England Quarterly, the Concord Saunterer, and Thoreau at 200: Essays and Reassessments (Cambridge UP, 2016), published to commemorate the two hundredth anniversary of Thoreau’s birth. To nourish his creative soul, he also publishes science fiction and fantasy novels for teens and adults.
yael ben-zvi is senior lecturer at the Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics at Ben-Gurion University. She is the author of Native Land Talk: Indigenous and Arrivant Rights Theories (Dartmouth, 2018), and her articles have appeared in such journals as Early American Literature, Legacy, ESQ, American Indian Quarterly, and CR: The New Centennial Review.
hester blum is associate professor of English at Pennsylvania State University. Her most recent book, The News at the Ends of the Earth: The Print Culture of Polar Exploration, was published by Duke University Press in 2019. She is also the author of The View from the Masthead: Maritime Imagination and Antebellum American Sea Narratives (UNC Press, 2008). Her edited volumes include the essay collection Turns of Event: Nineteenth-Century American Literary Studies in Motion (U Penn, 2016); special issues of Atlantic Studies (2013) and the Journal of Transnational American Studies (2019) on oceanic and archipelagic studies; and a scholarly edition of William Ray’s Horrors of Slavery; or, The American Tars in Tripoli (Rutgers UP, 2008).
david j. carlson is professor of English at California State University San Bernardino. He is the author of Sovereign Selves: American Indian Autobiography and the Law (U of Illinois P, 2006) and Imagining Sovereignty: Self-Determination in American Indian Law and Literature (Oklahoma UP, 2016), and the coeditor, with Edward Watts, of John Neal and Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture (Bucknell UP, 2011). He is also founding coeditor of Transmotion, an online, open-access journal of postmodern Indigenous Studies, which is hosted at the University of Kent (https://journals.kent.ac.uk/index.php/transmotion).
josé manuel correoso-rodenas holds a PhD in English and American studies from Universidad de Castilla–La Mancha, Spain, and is currently assistant professor of English at that same institution. His areas of interest and research are mainly gothic literature and American studies. His recent publications include “The Haunting of the Spanish Empire: (Proto-)Gothic Elements in Cabeza de Vaca’s Naufragios and Garcilaso de la Vega’s La Florida del Inca” (Studia Neophilologica, 2018) and “Flying South: Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Raven’ in Three Stories by Flannery O’Connor” (Humanities Bulletin Journal). Currently, he is also a member of the Research Project “Edgar A. Poe on-line: Texto e imagen,” sponsored by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation, and Universities, and of the research group “Estudios interdisciplinares de Literatura y Arte,” sponsored by the Vicerrectorado de Investigación y Política Científica de la Universidad de Castilla–La Mancha.
john demos is the Samuel Knight Professor of History emeritus at Yale University. His topical focus, throughout several decades of research, writing, and teaching, has been early American social and cultural history. He began as a proponent, and practitioner, of social science approaches, but shifted midcareer to narrative presentation. He is the author of ten books, including A Little Commonwealth: Family Life in Plymouth Colony (Oxford UP, 2000), Entertaining Satan: Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England (winner of the Bancroft Prize) (Oxford UP, 2004), The Unredeemed...
