Contributors
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Erica Da Costa is a PhD candidate at Fordham University. Her dissertation is titled Laboratorial Mind.
Gunhild Eriksdotter holds a PhD in Medieval Archaeology (2005) from Lund University, Sweden. Eriksdotter received a prize for meritorious doctoral thesis by the Royal Art Academy of Sweden in 2006, and she has performed building archaeological investigations and taught in Sweden, Italy, Tanzania, and Colombia. At present, she is working as a lecturer and researcher at the Gotland University, Sweden, in an interdisciplinary project that concerns climate history and architecture.
Mitchell Greenberg is the Goldwin Smith Professor of Romance Studies at Cornell University. He is the author of, among others, Racine: From Ancient Myth to Tragic Modernity; Baroque Bodies, Psychoanalyisis and the Culture of French Absolutism, Canonical States, Canonical Stages; and Subjectivity and Subjugation.
Amanda L. Hiner is Assistant Professor of English at Winthrop University in Rock Hill, South Carolina, teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century British literature; novels of formation; critical thinking, reading, and writing; academic writing; introduction to the English major; and the human experience. She received her master's degree and PhD in Eighteenth-Century British Literature from Washington University in St. Louis, and has presented papers and published articles on seventeenth-century women's educational theorists; literary naturalism; women and print culture in eighteenth-century England; Eliza Haywood's The Female Spectator; the political satire of Delarivier Manley; and the state of the English major in [End Page 110] the current economy. Her primary research interests include seventeenth- and eighteenth-century British women writers, early modern and eighteenth-century educational theorists, the historical and cultural contexts surrounding the development of print culture in eighteenth-century England, and the integration of critical thinking concepts into literary studies.
Adam H. Kitzes is Associate Professor of English at the University of North Dakota. His publications include The Politics of Melancholy from Spenser to Milton and articles on various early modern English writers, including Thomas Browne, John Donne, and Barnabe Riche. His current research explores conspiracy culture in late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century England. The present article is part of new research, which explores Shakespearean adaptations in print.
Laura Mandell is Professor of English Literature and Director of the Initiative for Digital Humanities, Media, and Culture at Texas A&M University. She has published Misogynous Economies: The Business of Literature in Eighteenth-Century Britain (1999), a Longman Cultural Edition of The Castle of Otranto and Man of Feeling, numerous articles, and Breaking the Book (forthcoming). She is general editor of the Poetess Archive (http://www.poetessarchive.org) and has developed visualization tools for poetry and relationships among epistolary correspondents. As director of 18thConnect (http://www.18thConnect.org), she is currently leading a team that will improve the quality of digitized early modern and eighteenth-century texts through OCR development and crowd-sourcing corrections.
Andrew McConnell Stott is Professor of English and Dean of Undergraduate Education at the University at Buffalo, SUN Y. He works on British popular culture from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries.
James Thompson has taught English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for thirty years and has published on a wide variety of writers from Dryden to Marx to Bourdieu in literary history, theory, and pedagogy. [End Page 111]
Ellen R. Welch is Assistant Professor of French at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and author of A Taste for the Foreign: Worldly Knowledge and Literary Pleasure in Early Modern French Fiction (U of Delaware P, 2011). Her current book project examines court entertainments in the context of early modern European diplomacy. [End Page 112]
