Contributors to Volume 50
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Sharon Alker is the Chair of Humanities and Fine Arts and the Mary A. Denny Professor of English and General Studies at Whitman College in Washington State. She has co-edited James Hogg and the Literary Marketplace: Scottish Romanticism and the Working-Class Author (Ashgate, 2009) and Robert Burns and Transatlantic Culture (Ashgate, 2012) and published articles on such authors as Margaret Cavendish, Daniel Defoe, John Galt, Maria Edgeworth, Aphra Behn, Mary Brunton, and James Hogg. Her co-authored monograph on the literary representation of siege warfare, Besieged: Early Modern British Siege Literature, 1642–1722, has just been published by McGill-Queen's University Press.
Olivia Carpenter is a doctoral candidate in the English department at Harvard University. Her dissertation examines the relationship between racialized marriage plots and colonial archives in the long eighteenth century. A version of this essay won the 2019 ASECS Race and Empire Caucus Graduate Student Essay Prize.
Anaclara Castro-Santana is a Lecturer in the English Department at the School of Philosophy and Letters of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). She took her PhD in English at the University of York, sponsored by a scholarship from the Mexican National Council of Science and Technology (CONACyT). She is the author of Errors and Reconciliations: Marriage in the Plays and Novels of Henry Fielding (Routledge, 2018), as well as various articles and book chapters about Laurence Sterne, William Hogarth, Jonathan Swift, Eliza Haywood, and Daniel Defoe.
Hannah Chaskin recently received her PhD in English from Northwestern University. Her research focuses on queer theory and narrative form, and her current book project explores the representation and construction of femininity in the eighteenth-century epistolary novel. Her work can be found in Modern Philology and Women's Writing.
Logan J. Connors is Associate Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures at the University of Miami. He is the author of Dramatic Battles in Eighteenth-Century France (Voltaire Foundation, 2012) and The Emergence of a Theatrical Science of Man in France, 1660–1740 (Voltaire Foundation, 2020). His new project explores the relationships between theater and the military in France and its colonial empire from 1650–1815.
Alison DeSimone is Assistant Professor of Musicology at the University of Missouri–Kansas City. She has a forthcoming monograph entitled The Power of Pastiche: Musical Miscellany and Cultural Identity in Early Eighteenth-Century England (Clemson University Press) and, with Matthew Gardner, she edited Music and the Benefit Performance in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Cambridge University Press, 2020). Her articles appear in the A-R Online Anthology, Händel-Jahrbuch, and Early Modern Women. In 2018, she won the Ruth Solie Prize for an Outstanding Article on British Music from the North American British Music Studies Association.
Laurent Dubois is Professor of Romance Studies and History and the Faculty Director of the Forum for Scholars and Publics at Duke University. He is the author of eight books, including The Banjo: America's African Instrument (Harvard University Press, 2016) and, with Richard Turits, Freedom Roots: Histories from the Caribbean (University of North Carolina Press, 2019).
Amy Dunagin is an assistant professor of history at Kennesaw State University, where she specializes in the cultural and political history of Britain and its empire. Recent publications include "A Nova Scotia Scheme and the Imperial Politics of Ulster Emigration" in the Journal of British Studies and "Tory Defenses of English Music: Thomas Tudway and Roger North" in Eighteenth-Century Life. She is currently completing a book manuscript entitled "The Land without Music: English Identity and the Italian Other." Following a doctorate in history and musicology from Yale University, Dunagin served as Managing Editor of Eighteenth-Century Studies between 2015 and 2017.
Michael Edson is associate professor of English at the University of Wyoming and associate editor for Eighteenth-Century Life. His articles have appeared in or are forthcoming in the Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, The Eighteenth Century, Textual Cultures, and 1650–1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era. His edited volume, Annotation in Eighteenth-Century Poetry (Lehigh University Press), appeared in 2017.
Jason S. Farr is assistant professor of English at Marquette University. His book, Novel Bodies: Disability and Sexuality in Eighteenth...
