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  • Contributors

Nadine Bérenguier is Professor of French at the University of New Hampshire. She has published on marriage, eighteenth-century legal briefs, and the writers Anne-Thérèse de Lambert, Madeleine de Puisieux, Isabelle de Charrière, the Chevalier de Cerfvol, Jeanne Marie Leprince de Beaumont, Louise d’Epinay, and Suzanne Curchod Necker. Her book, Conduct Books for Girls in Enlightenment France, was released by Ashgate in 2011.

Catherine Clinton teaches United States history at Queen’s University, Belfast, and is the author of The Plantation Mistress: Woman’s World in the Old South (1982) and most recently, Mrs. Lincoln: A Life (2009).

Jennifer Frangos is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Missouri, Kansas City. She has published essays on Aphra Behn, Anne Lister, Delarivier Manley, and eighteenth-century ghost stories; has edited a collection on transatlantic pedagogy; and is completing a book project on discursive practices of sex between women in eighteenth-century British print culture. She also serves as editor for the academic journal The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation.

Katharine Gillespie is Associate Professor of seventeenth-century English and colonial American literature at Miami University of Ohio and specializes in writings by women associated with religious and political dissent. She is the author of Domesticity and Dissent in the Seventeenth-Century: English Women Writers and the Public Sphere (2004) as well as articles on Elizabeth Peter, Lucy Hutchinson, Elizabeth Cromwell, Mary Rowlandson, Anne Bradstreet, Katherine Chidley, and Anna Trapnel. She is the editor of Writings by Katherine Chidley (2010) and The Prophetess and the Patriarch: The Visions of an Anti-Regicide in Seventeenth-Century England (writings by Elizabeth Poole) forthcoming from “The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe” series. She is completing work on a monograph, Lucretia and Beyond: Women Write the English Republic 1638–1681.

Michelle Hartman is Associate Professor of Arabic Literature at the Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University. She has published widely on Arab women’s writing and Arabic literary translation in Journal of Arabic Literature, International Journal of Middle East Studies, and Feminist Studies among others. She is also a literary translator, most recently of Iman [End Page 205] Humaydan’s Wild Mulberries (2008) and Alexandra Chreiteh’s Always Coca Cola (2012).

Nicolle Jordan is Associate Professor of English at the University of Southern Mississippi. Her work has appeared in such journals as The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, Modern Philology, and Eighteenth-Century Fiction. She is working on a book manuscript entitled “Prolific Ground: Landscape and Authority in British Women’s Writing, 1700–1825.”

Stephanie Li is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Rochester. Her first book, Something Akin to Freedom: The Choice of Bondage in Narratives by African American Women, won the 2009 First Book Prize in African American Studies from State University of New York Press. She is also the author of Signifying Without Specifying: Racial Discourse in the Age of Obama (2011) and a short biography of Toni Morrison. Her work has also appeared in Callaloo, American Literature, Legacy, and SAIL.

Heidi Slettedahl Macpherson is Pro Vice-Chancellor, Research and Innovation at De Montfort University, Leicester, England. Her most recent book is The Cambridge Introduction to Margaret Atwood (2010).

Kelly A. Marsh is Associate Professor of English at Mississippi State University. Her essays on nineteenth- and twentieth-century women’s fiction have appeared in journals including Narrative, Studies in the Novel, South Atlantic Review, and College Literature. She currently is working on a book-length study of plot and narrative progression in novels of motherless daughters.

Patricia Moran is the author of Word of Mouth: Body/Language in Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf (1996) and Virginia Woolf, Jean Rhys, and the Aesthetics of Trauma (2007) and coeditor with Tamar Heller of Scenes of the Apple: Food and the Female Body in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Women’s Writing (2003). With Erica Johnson, she recently has completed an edited collection, Mortified: Representing Women’s Shame. Formerly Professor of English at the University of California, Davis, she is now Lecturer in English at the University of Limerick.

Kevin A. Morrison is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Syracuse University. His work on...

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