Notes on Contributors
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Whitney Arnold, Ph.D., is the Director of the Undergraduate Research Center for the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at the University of California–Los Angeles. Her current book project explores the intersections of literary celebrity and autobiographical texts in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain and France.
Laura Brown (Ph.D., Berkeley) studies the literary representation of animals, the role of women in literature, the relationship between culture and history, the emergence of imperialist thought, and the effects of ideas of racial difference. Brown is the author, most recently, of Fables of Modernity (2013) and Homeless Dogs and Melancholy Apes (2010), which explore the relationship between literature and culture by examining such topics as the rise of the stock market, the development of urban sanitation, the spectacle of native “princes” in London, and, in the latter study, the ways in which representations of animals engage and transform modern imaginative experiences.
Tita Chico is Associate Professor of English at the University of Maryland. She is the author of Designing Women: The Dressing Room in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Culture (2005), editor, with Toni Bowers, of Atlantic Worlds of the Long Eighteenth Century: Seduction and Sentiment (2012), and editor of The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation.
Jason S. Farr recently completed his Ph.D. at the University of California, San Diego. He has written a chapter on Sarah Scott for the collection Enabling: The Idea of Disability in the Eighteenth Century (forthcoming from Bucknell University Press) and is currently researching the emergence of deaf education in England.
Aaron R. Hanlon is Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Georgetown University. He is writing a book called “The Politics of Quixotism,” which examines the seventeenth-and eighteenth-century proliferation of quixotic characters in British and American fiction as part of a transatlantic history of exceptionalist politics.
Erin Mackie is Professor of English at Syracuse University. She has written on fashion in The Tatler and The Spectator and has edited a thematic collection of those papers. Having completed a study of eighteenth-century masculinity [End Page 135] and criminality, she is now examining how that criminality shapes the historical imagination and novelistic discourse of the nineteenth-century. This is one of several essays she has written on Swift’s satire.
Peter Melville is Associate Professor of English at the University of Winnipeg. He is author of Romantic Hospitality and the Resistance to Accommodation (2007) and Writing about Literature: An Introductory Guide (2011). He has also published articles in SEL: Studies in English Literature, European Romantic Review, Mosaic, and The Dalhousie Review.
Nathaniel Norman is a Ph.D. candidate who is currently writing a dissertation about the emergence of biography in the eighteenth century.
Daniel O’Quinn is Professor in the School of English and Theatre Studies at the University of Guelph. He is the author of Entertaining Crisis in the Atlantic Imperium, 1770–1790 (2011) and Staging Governance: Theatrical Imperialism in London, 1770–1800 (2005). He also co-edited the Cambridge Companion to British Theatre, 1730–1830 (2007) with Jane Moody, and has edited the Travels of Mirza Abu Taleb Khan for Broadview Press (2008). A new edition of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s Turkish Embassy Letters, co-edited with Teresa Heffernan, was just published by Broadview in the fall of 2012. He is currently working on new book entitled “After Peace: Modernity and the Geo-politics of Emotion.”
Cristobal Silva is Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He is the author of Miraculous Plagues: An Epidemiology of Early New England Narrative (2011) and an editor of The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation.
Kathryn Temple, J.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor and Chair of the Georgetown University English Department, specializes in eighteenth-century British law, literature, and culture. Her current book project, “Loving Justice: William Blackstone and the Origins of Anglo-American Law,” reexamines Blackstone in his larger cultural context to demonstrate how the representation of emotions influences our commitment to the legal system. Her next project, “Intimate Justice,” will explore the relationship between supposedly private “intimacy” and the supposedly public justice system. [End Page 136]
