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MELISSA BAILES is Associate Professor of English at Tulane University, specializing 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.

MRINMOYEE BHATTACHARYA is Dean's Postdoctoral Scholar in French at Florida State University. Her work centers on the crossroads of literature, philosophy, and political theory, with a particular focus on French Republicanism. She has published in Research in African Literatures, Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, and The French Review.

ELIZABETH A. BOHLS, Professor of English at the University of Oregon, is the author of Slavery and the Politics of Place: Representing the Colonial Caribbean 1770–1833 (2014); Romantic Literature and Postcolonial Studies (2013); Women Travel Writers and the Language of Aesthetics (1995) and numerous articles on Romantic literature, travel, and slavery. She coedited Travel Writing 1700–1830 (2005) with Ian Duncan.

THOMAS BULLINGTON is Lecturer of Liberal Arts at Mercer University, where he teaches courses in both the Great Books and Integrative Studies programs. He completed his doctoral work at the University of Mississippi. He focuses on British literature of the long eighteenth century (1666–1800), intersections of botany and literature, garden history, ecocriticism, and video games as pedagogy.

DIANE FOURNY is Associate Professor of French and Humanities at the University of Kansas, teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in early modern French literature. Her most recent research and publications deal with French global encounters of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries represented in French literature and the decorative arts.

ZACHARY MCLEOD HUTCHINS is Associate Professor of English at Colorado State University. He is the author of Inventing Eden: Primitivism, Millennialism, and the Making of New England (2014) and the editor of Community without Consent: New Perspectives on the Stamp Act (2016). [End Page 139]

SEAN MOORE is Professor of English at the University of New Hampshire and Editor of the journal Eighteenth-Century Studies. He is the author of Slavery and the Making of Early American Libraries: British Literature, Political Thought, and the Transatlantic Book Trade, 1731–1814 (2019) and Swift, the Book, and the Irish Financial Revolution (2010), which received the Murphy Prize for Distinguished First Book from the American Conference for Irish Studies. He has published in PMLA, Early American Literature, Atlantic Studies, and other journals, and has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, American Antiquarian Society, Newport Mansions, Library Company of Philadelphia, the Folger Library, the John Carter Brown Library, and the Fulbright program.

LEE MORRISSEY is Professor and Alumni Distinguished Professor of English at Clemson University. Author of The Constitution of Literature: Literacy, Democracy, and Early English Literary Criticism (2007), his recent research focuses on archipelagic and transatlantic approaches to colonial plantations.

JUDITH PASCOE is the George Mills Harper Professor of English at Florida State University. She has published work on Romantic-era theatre culture, collectors, and sound-recording technology. Her most recent book, On the Bullet Train with Emily Brontë: " Wuthering Heights" in Japan (2017), was completed with the support of a Guggenheim fellowship.

RIVKA SWENSON is Associate Professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth University. She is the author of Essential Scots and the Idea of Unionism in Anglo-Scottish Literature, 1603–1832. Current projects pertain to optics, gender, and the gaze in eighteenth-century British literature and culture and to the transhistorical and transcontinental genres of the Robinsonade. She currently serves as the Affiliates Coordinator for the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies and is Book Reviews Editor for the journal Digital Defoe. [End Page 140]

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