Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
MELISSA BAILES is Associate Professor of English at Tulane University. She specializes in British literature of the long eighteenth century, the history of science, and women’s and gender studies. Her book, Questioning Nature: British Women’s Scientific Writing and Literary Originality, 1750–1830 (2017), won the British Society for Literature and Science 2017 Book Prize.
TITA CHICO is Professor of English at the University of Maryland and author, most recently, of The Experimental Imagination: Literary Knowledge and Science in the British Enlightenment (2018). She is also Editor of The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation.
LEITH DAVIS is Professor of English at Simon Fraser University in Greater Vancouver, Canada. She is the author of Acts of Union: Scotland and the Negotiation of the British Nation (1999) and Music, Postcolonialism and Gender: The Construction of Irish Identity, 1724–1874 (2005), as well as co-editor of Scotland and the Borders of Romanticism (2004) and Robert Burns and Transatlantic Culture (2017).
ANDREA HASLANGER is Lecturer in English at the University of Sussex. She is at work on a book entitled Impossible Peace: Imagining Life After War in the Long Eighteenth Century. Her essays have appeared in ELH, Modern Philology, European Romantic Review, and ELN.
OLIVERA JOKIĆ is Associate Professor at John Jay College, CUNY. Her publications have focused on texts treated as documentation of eighteenth-century British colonialism, on the constitution of archives of gender and personal archives of women writers, and on the related histories of writing about historical subjects and literary characters.
LIU CHEN is a Ph.D. candidate at Sun Yat-sen University.
ALICE TWEEDY MCGRATH is a Digital Scholarship Specialist at Bryn Mawr College. Her doctoral dissertation, completed in 2016 at the University of Pennsylvania, traced “patchwork fiction”—experimental prose by British women writers of the long eighteenth century.
LAURA J. ROSENTHAL is Professor of English at the University of Maryland. Her most recent book is Ways of the World: Theater and Cosmopolitanism in the Restoration and Beyond, forthcoming from Cornell University Press. She edits Restoration: Studies in Literary Culture, 1660 to 1700.
RICHARD SQUIBBS is Associate Professor of English at DePaul University and author of Urban Enlightenment and the Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essay (2014). He is currently writing a book that explores the nexus of picaresque, comic fiction, and the Bildungsroman in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England and Europe.
PEGGY THOMPSON is the author of Coyness and Crime in Restoration Comedy: Women’s Desire, Deception, and Agency (2012) and the editor of Beyond Sense and Sensibility: Moral Formation and the Literary Imagination from Johnson to Wordsworth (2015). She is Ellen Douglass Leyburn Professor Emerita of English at Agnes Scott College.
Q. S. TONG is formally University Professor of English in the College of Liberal Arts and English Department, Sun Yat-sen University, China. Before he joined Sun Yat-sen University in 2015, he had worked and taught at the University of Hong Kong for over two decades. He has published extensively, in both English and Chinese, on issues of critical significance in literary and cultural studies, criticism, and theory, with special attention to the historical interactions between China and the West. His most recent publication is a monograph in Chinese: The Meaning of the Chinese Language: Philology, World Literature, and the Western View of Chinese (2019).
EMILY M. WEST is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. Her current research focuses on eighteenth-century science and technology, gender and sexuality, material culture, and childhood, on which she has published in Eighteenth-Century Fiction and Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies.
