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  • Contributors to Volume 49

Rebecca Anne Barr is a lecturer in the Faculty of English at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Jesus College. She is the co-editor of two recent essay collections: Ireland and Masculinities in History (2019) and Literacy, Language and Reading in Nineteenth-Century Ireland (2019).

Scott Black is Professor and Chair of English at the University of Utah. He is the author of Of Essays and Reading in Early Modern Britain (2006), essays on eighteenth-century fiction and essays, and, most recently, Without the Novel: Romance and the History of Prose Fiction (2019).

Mary Crone-Romanovski is Associate Professor of Eighteenth-Century British Literature and Culture at Florida Gulf Coast University. Her research examines the narrative and ideological functions of representations of the material world in eighteenth-century fiction by women. Her article, "The Ancient House and Modern Female Conduct in Frances Sheridan's Miss Sidney Bidulph," appears in the Spring 2019 issue of XVIII: New Perspectives on the Eighteenth Century.

Bridget Donnelly recently completed her PhD at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is an incoming Assistant Professor of English at Middle Tennessee State University. Her dissertation project, "Accidents Waiting to Happen: Plotting the Unexpected in the Eighteenth-Century Novel," examines historical and literary representations of coaching accidents in the long eighteenth century. She is the author of "'Chequer Works of Providence': Skeptical Providentialism in Daniel Defoe's Fiction," Philosophy and Literature (2019), and she has five entries forthcoming in The Cambridge Guide to the Eighteenth-Century Novel, 1660–1820, edited by April London.

Joseph Drury is Associate Professor of English at Villanova University. His book, Novel Machines: Technology and Narrative Form in Enlightenment Britain, was published by Oxford University Press in 2017.

Agnieszka Anna Ficek is a PhD candidate in Art History at the CUNY Graduate Center. Her research focuses on transatlantic visual and material cultures, as well as the cultural exchange between France and the Spanish American colonies. Her dissertation is provisionally titled "From Allegory to Revolution: The Inca Empire in the Eighteenth-Century French Imagination." Ficek is also interested in the relationship between art and the exotic in eighteenth-century fine and decorative arts from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. She is currently working on a project that examines the artistic career of Anna Rajecka Gault de Saint-Germain.

Barbara Fuchs is Professor of Spanish and English at UCLA, where she directs the Working Group on the Comedia in Translation and Performance and its "Diversifying the Classics" initiative. Her latest book, Knowing Fictions: Picaresque Reading in the Early Modern Hispanic World is forthcoming later in 2020. Recent projects include The Quest for Certainty in Early Modern Europe: From Inquisition to Inquiry (1550–1700), co-edited with Mercedes García-Arenal (2020); a translation of Lope de Vega's rediscovered Women and Servants (2016); The Golden Age of Spanish Drama, with Gregary Racz (2018); and 90 Monologues from Classical Spanish Theater, translated and edited with Laura Muñoz and Jennifer Monti (2018). Fuchs is also an editor of the Norton Anthology of World Literature (2012, 2018).

Jeffrey Galbraith is Associate Professor of English at Wheaton College (IL). He has published essays on Dryden, Swift, and drama of the Restoration and early eighteenth century. His essay "Sacheverell's 'Exploded' Obedience: Restoration and Performance in the Early Eighteenth Century" recently appeared in Restoration: Studies in English Literary Culture, 1660–1700.

Sarah Grandin is a PhD candidate in the History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University. Her dissertation, "To Scale: Manufacturing Grandeur in the Age of Louis XIV," examines an array of mediums—typography, print, carpets, and gardens—to expose issues of preindustrial scalability and to investigate material and technical strategies of political aggrandizement.

Katherine Gustafson is an Assistant Professor at Indiana University Northwest where she teaches courses in the Department of English, the Women and Gender Studies Program, and the Medical Humanities Minor. She has published essays in Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Essays in Romanticism, and The Burney Journal. Gustafson is currently working with Suzanne Barnett and Jared McGeough on a scholarly collection of William Godwin's children's books for Romantic Circles. She is also finishing her first book...

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