Colonial Mediascapes: Sensory Worlds of the Early Americas

Contributors

Contributors Ralph Bauer is an associate professor of English and comparative literature at the University of Maryland, College Park. His publications include The Cultural Geography of Colonial American Literatures: Empire,Travel, Modernity (2003, 2008), An Inca Account of the Conquest of Peru (2005), and (coedited with José Antonio Mazzotti) Creole Subjects in the Colonial Americas: Empires, Texts, Identities (2009). He is currently completing a monograph titled “The Alchemy of Conquest: Science, Religion, and the Secrets of the New World.” Heidi Bohaker is an associate professor at the University of Toronto . Her research interests include Anishinaabe political history in the Great Lakes region; Native American writing, communication systems, and material culture as sources for history; treaty relationships ; and federal government policies toward indigenous peoples in Canada. She is also a cofounder of grasac, the Great Lakes Research Alliance for the Study of Aboriginal Arts and Cultures. Galen Brokaw is an associate professor in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at Montana State University. His research focuses primarily on colonial Latin American historiography, indigenous writing, orality-literacy studies, media studies, and the interaction between indigenous media and alphabetic script. He is the author of A History of the Khipu (2010). 410 Contributors Matt Cohen is an associate professor in the Department of English at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of The Networked Wilderness: Communicating in Early New England and a contributing editor at the online Walt Whitman Archive. Jon Coleman is a professor in the Department of History at the University of Notre Dame. He the author of Vicious: Wolves and Men in America (2004) and Here Lies Hugh Glass: A Mountain Man, a Bear, and the Rise of the American Nation (2012). Jeffrey Glover is an assistant professor in the Department of English at Loyola University Chicago. He is currently working on a book about Anglo-Native treaties and the early history of international law. Peter Charles Hoffer teaches early American history at the University of Georgia, where he is a distinguished research professor. Andrew Newman, an associate professor of English at Stony Brook University, is the author of On Records: Delaware Indians, Colonists, and the Media of History and Memory (2012). Birgit Brander Rasmussen is an assistant professor of American Studies and Ethnicity, Race, and Migration at Yale University. She is the author of numerous articles and a prize-winning book titled Queequeg’s Coffin: Indigenous Literacies and Early American Literature (2012). She is coeditor of The Making and Unmaking of Whiteness (2001). Richard Cullen Rath is an associate professor of history at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa. He teaches courses on early America , Native Americans, and the history of media and the senses. He is the author of How Early America Sounded and is currently working on two books, one an introduction to the history of hearing and the other comparing the rise of print culture in eighteenth-century North America to the rise of Internet culture today. Sarah Rivett is an assistant professor of English at Princeton University . She is the author of The Science of the Soul in Colonial New England (2011). Contributors 411 Gordon M. Sayre is a professor of English and folklore at the University of Oregon, where he teaches courses in colonial American literature , autobiography, Native studies, and ecocriticism. He is the translator and coeditor of The Memoir of Lieutenant Dumont, 1715–1747, the manuscript narrative of Jean-François-Benjamin Dumont de Montigny, published in 2012 by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press. Germaine Warkentin is professor emeritus of English at the University of Toronto and a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Her interests cover early modern literature and exploration, with emphasis on manuscript and book history and on aboriginal communication. She is the editor of The Collected Writings of Pierre-Esprit Radisson (vol. 1, The Voyages, 2012) and editor in chief of The Library of the Sidneys of Penshurst Place ca. 1665 (2013). ...