Contributors to Volume 29

Contributors to Volume 29 SaraK.AustinwasawardedherPh.D.bytheUniversityofCaliforniaat BerkeleyinSpring1999.Herdissertationtracesanti-commercialattitudes intothecultureofreadingtoshowhowbothwomenandthenovelasa genrewereunderstoodasemblemsofcommodification.ChaptersonMary Wollstonecraft,FrancesBumey,MariaEdgeworth,andJaneAustenshow thatthesenovelistsrespondedbyconstructingvariousnewmodelsofthe novelandfemalecharacter.HeressayonepicforminBumeyisderived fromapaperpresentedatthe1997NEASECSmeetinginBoston. NadineBêrenguierisAssociateProfessorofFrenchattheUniversityof NewHampshire.HerbookL'infortunedesalliances:contrat,marriageetfiction(1995)cameoutofherresearchonfamilyandlegalissues.Sheis currentlypreparingabookinvestigatingtheparticularitiesofconductbooks addressedtowomenwhoshouldnotbereading:theyoungandunmarried. LisaBerglund,anassistantprofessorofEnglishliteratureatConnecticut CollegeinNewLondon,Connecticut,presentedheressayonTheRambler andexemplaryautobiographyatthe1997NEASECSconference.Shecur- rentlyisworkingonastudyofrepresentationsofSamuelJohnsoninpopularculture ;herotherpublicationsincludearticlesonallegoryinTheRam- bler,onEtherege,andonTennyson.SheisanassociateeditorofTheDrood ReviewofMystery. KarenDwyerisadoctoralcandidateinEnglishattheUniversityofNotre Dame,completingadissertationontheeighteenth-centurycontextsof JoannaBaillie'sPlaysonthePassions,underthedirectionofChristopher FoxandGregoryKucich.ThepresentessayontheScottishdramatistwas readasaconferencepaperatthe1998ASECSmeeting. PamLieskeisanAssistantProfessorofEnglishatKentStateUniversity, TrumbullCampus.Sheisworkingon"ConstructingMaternalBodies:Ob- stetricalMachinesandFemaleEpistemologyintheEnlightenment,"abook- lengthstudyofobstetricalmachinesandmaterialrepresentationsofthe maternalbody,ofwhichheressayhereisapart.Herpaperwasoriginally presentedatthe1998ASECSmeeting. 361 362/Contributors BruceMazlishisProfessorofHistoryatMassachusettsInstituteofTech- nology,whereheteachesarangeofcourses,includingonetreatingofthe AgeofReason.Amonghismanybooks,thosemostpertinenttohisex- changewithRobertWoklerontheintellectuallegacyofErnstCassirerare TheUncertainSciences(Yale,1998)andΛNewScience:TheBreakdown ofConnectionsandtheBirthofSociology(Oxford;reprint,paper,Pennsyl- vaniaStateUniversityPress,1993). PaulMcCallumisanAssistantProfessorofEnglishatPittsburgStateUni- versityinPittsburg,Kansas.HeiscurrentlyatworkonastudyofPope, epitaphs,andthefateofpublicpoetryineighteenth-centuryBritain.The presentessayonthemetaphorofRestorationwasoriginallypresentedat the1998ASECSmeeting. HeatherMcPhersonisAssociateProfessorofArtHistoryandDirectorof GraduateStudiesattheUniversityofAlabamaatBirmingham.Shehas publishedessaysoneighteenth-centuryvisualcultureinStudiesinEigh- teenth-CenturyCultureandtheGazettedesBeaux-Arts,andhasreceived researchfellowshipsfromtheYaleCenterforBritishArt,theHarvardThe- atreCollection,HoughtonLibrary,theFolgerShakespeareLibrary,the HuntingtonLibrary,andtheBritishAcademy.Heressayonpaintingsof SarahSiddonswasoriginallygivenasalectureatthe1997NEASECS meetinginBoston,andformspartofabooksheiscompletingonthevi- sualrepresentationofthecelebratedtragicactress. JenniferDavisMichaelisAssistantProfessorofEnglishattheUniversity oftheSouthinSewanee,Tennessee.Herarticleisdrawnfromhermanu- scriptinprogressentitled"CitiesNotYetEmbodied:Blake'sUrbanRo- manticism,"andwaspresentedasaconferencepaperatthe1997 MWASECSmeeting. JoannaPicciottoisAssistantProfessorofEnglishatPrincetonUniversity. Heressaywasreadatthe1997SpringWSECSconferencewhenshewasa Ph.DcandidateattheUniversityofCaliforniaatBerkeley.Sheiscurrently workingonastudyofspectatorshipaslaborinseventeenth-andeigh- teenth-centuryEngland. LorrainePirouxisAssistantProfessorofFrenchatRutgersUniversity, NewBrunswick.HeressayonRousseautookonitslifeasapresentationat theOctober1997MWASECSmeetinginChicago.SheistheauthorofLe Livreentrompe-l'oeiloulejeudeladédicace:Montaigne,Scarron,Diderot Contributors / 363 (1998).SheiscurrentlycompletinganessayonDiderot'sepistemological fictionsandisalsowritingabookontheFrenchliteraryrepresentationof AmericanartistJosephCornell. LeahPriceisanAssistantProfessorofEnglishatHarvardUniversity,and wasformerlyResearchFellowatGirtonCollege,Cambridge.Heressay onSamuelRichardsonwaspresentedatthe1997BostonNEASECS.She haspublishedarticlesonElizabethGaskell,GeorgeEliot,SusanFerrier, abridgment,eighteenth-centuryFrenchlaw,andpornography.Herbook TheAnthologyandtheRiseoftheNovelisforthcomingfromCambridge UniversityPress,andsheisnowworkingonastudyofghostwritingand typewritinginlatenineteenth-centuryBritain. GeoffreySillisanassociateprofessorofEnglishattheCamdencampusof Rutgers,theStateUniversityofNewJersey.Thepresentessay,onDaniel Defoe'sRoxana,wasreadatthe1997meetingofEC-ASECS.Professor SillistheauthoroÃ-DefoeandtheIdeaofFiction(Delaware,1983),andof articlesonDefoe,WaltWhitman,andFrancesBumey,aswellasaforth- comingstudyofthecureofthepassionsintheearlyEnglishnovel. WayneWild,M.D.,isaphysicianpracticinginMassachusettswhoisalso completinghisPh.D.dissertationondoctor-patientcorrespondenceineigh- teenth-centuryBritainatBrandeisUniversity.Theessayappearingherein waspresentedinabridgedformattheASECSAnnualMeetingin1998,and receivedtheASECSGraduateStudentPrizeforthatyear.Dr.Wildpre- sentedapreviouspaper,"TheDoctorIntervenes:WivesandVenerealDisease inEighteenth-CenturyBritain,"atthe1997NEASECSmeetinginBoston. ElizabethA.WilliamsisAssociateProfessorintheDepartmentofHistory atOklahomaStateUniversity.TheauthorofThePhysicalandtheMoral: Anthropology,Physiology,andPhilosophicalMedicineinFrance,1750- 1850(Cambridge,1994),sheiscurrentlycompletingastudyofvitalismin theFrenchmedicalEnlightenment.Heressayinthepresentvolumewas firstpresentedatthe1998annualmeetingofASECS. RobertWokler,currentlyaSeniorResearchFellowattheUniversityof Exeter,wasfrom1994to1998ReaderintheHistoryofPoliticalThought attheUniversityofManchester.HeistheauthoroftheOxford"PastMas- ter"Rousseau,andjointeditorofDiderot'sPoliticalWritings,Inventing HumanScienceandthe(forthcoming)CambridgeHistoryofEighteenth- CenturyPoliticalThought. ...