Notes on Contributors
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edward cahill is currently completing a Ph.D. at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. His dissertation concerns the formative influence of eighteenth-century aesthetic theory on early national literature and political culture.
christopher castiglia, of the English Department of Loyola University of Chicago, is author of Bound and Determined: Captivity, Culture-Crossing, and White Womanhood from Mary Rowlandson to Patty Hearst in the Women in Culture and Society series. When not commenting on popular culture and gender politics, he has been composing Interior States: National Reform and the Romance of Inner Life. He and Julia Stern are coediting a special issue (36, 3) of Early American Literature on interiority.
betsy erkkila, the Henry Sanborn Noyes Professor of English at Northwestern University, is the author of Walt Whitman Among the French: Poet and Myth, Whitman the Political Poet, and The Wicked Sisters: Women Poets, Literary History, and Discord. She is coeditor with Jay Grossman of Breaking Bounds: Whitman and American Cultural Studies and is completing a volume entitled Mixed Bloods and Other American Crosses: Essays on American Literature and Culture.
robert levine, professor of English at the University of Maryland, is author of Martin Delany, Frederick Douglass, and the Politics of Representative Identity and Conspiracy and Romance: Studies in Brockden Brown, Cooper, Hawthorne, and Melville. His editorial projects include “Stand Still and See the Salvation”: A Martin R. Delany Reader (North Carolina, forthcoming 2002); The Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville (Cambridge, 1998); “Cultural Edition” of William Wells Brown, Clotel (Bedford, 2000); and Harriet Beecher Stowe, Dred (Penguin, 2000).
anne g. myles is assistant professor of English at the University of Northern Iowa. She has published work on Roger Williams in Modern Philology and the recent collection Possible Pasts: Becoming Colonial in Early America. Her research on Quakerism is part of a larger project on language, experience, and desire in early American texts of dissent.
grantland rice is author of The Transformation of Authorship in America (1997). An administrator at Tufts University, he currently serves on the editorial board of Early American Literature.
gordon sayre, of the English Department of the University of Oregon, investigates narratives of travel, exploration, and relations with native peoples during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In 1997 he published Les Sauvages Américains: [End Page 143] Representations of Native Americans in French and English Colonial Literature. More recently, his American Captivity Narratives: An Anthology, 2000 appeared.
daniel williams, professor of English at the University of Mississippi, is an assiduous researcher of the early American print archive. His anthology of criminal narratives, Pillars of Salt, and his many articles on dying confessions, criminal autobiography, and now pirate narratives have brought to view an entire field of popular literature. [End Page 144]
