Notes on Contributors
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Richard Bell is assistant professor of history at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is currently a fellow of the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress and his book We Shall Be No More: Suicide and Power in the Early United States will be published by Harvard University Press this fall.
Scott Cleary is an assistant professor of English at Iona College in New Rochelle, New York. He has recently published articles on Christopher Smart and Alexander Pope, and is currently working on a monograph concerning Catholicism and the English novel.
Coby Dowdell received his PhD from the Department of English at the University of Toronto. His dissertation, "Ascetic Citizens: Religious Austerity and Political Crisis in Anglo-American Literature, 1681-1799," has recently been awarded the Canadian Association of Graduate Studies/UMI's Distinguished Dissertation Award. He is currently a lecturer in the Department of English and Film Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University and the School of English and Theatre Studies at the University of Guelph.
Jeffrey Glover is an assistant professor in the Department of English at Loyola University, Chicago. He is currently working on a book that examines how Native American practices of political negotiation shaped early American writing. His essays have appeared in PMLA, Book History, and Early American Literature.
Christopher Looby is professor of English at UCLA, and recently wrote the introduction for a republication of Robert Montgomery Bird's Sheppard Lee, Written by Himself (New York Review of Books, 2008). He is the president of C19: The Society of Nineteenth Century Americanists.
Dennis Moore, a University Distinguished Teaching Professor in Florida State University's English Department, has recently completed a revised and enlarged edition of Crèvecoeur's Letters from an American Farmer for the John Harvard Library. A past president of the Society of Early Americanists, he created and continues to coordinate the American Studies Association's Early American Matters Caucus.
Gordon Sayre is professor of English at the University of Oregon and a frequent contributor to Early American Literature. He is completing a translation of the manuscript "Memoir of Dumont de Montigny," which he coedited and published in French as Regards sur le monde atlantique, 1715-1747 (Septentrion, 2008).
Robert Tindol is an associate professor of English at Shantou University in Shantou, China. His research primarily focuses on American literature before the [End Page 195] twentieth century. His recent publications include "Tom and Becky in the Cave: An Anti-Captivity Narrative?" (2009 Mark Twain Annual), and "River Gloom and River Glory: Thoreau's Novel Employment of the Romantic Sublime in A Week on the Concord and Merrimac Rivers" (Bhatter College Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies).
Megan Walsh is assistant professor of English at Ohio State University at Lima. She has an essay forthcoming in the Blackwell Companion to Benjamin Franklin and is working on a book about the connections between visual technology and literary culture in the early republic.
Kelly Wisecup is an assistant professor of English at the University of North Texas. She is the author of an essay on yellow fever and slave rebellion in William Wells Brown's Clotel published in The Southern Literary Journal and is completing a book project on medicine and writing in cross-cultural encounters. [End Page 196]
