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Emily Bowles teaches English and Women’s Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Fox Valley. She also volunteers for the Sexual Assault Crisis Center-Fox Cities. Her publications focus on Aphra Behn, Henry Fielding, and Frances Brooke.
Associate Professor of French & Francophone Studies, Women’s Studies, and African American Studies, Professor Clark-Evans researches 16th- and 18th-century French literature and intellectual history. She received her B.A. from Barnard College, Columbia University, and her M.A. and Ph.D. from Bryn Mawr College (PA). Her book Diderot’s ‘La Religieuse’: A Philosophical Novel (Editions CERES, Montreal, 1995) treats the implications of the tragic, satirical, and philosophical ideas and systems in this 18th-century novel about the outlaw nun Suzanne. Other scholarly publications are on early modern French women authors, philosophy, and science. She has taught on these topics and on African American philosophy and women of color. A recipient of various fellowships and prizes, including Newberry Library, American Council of Learned Societies, and Ford Foundation awards, she has been co-investigator on a group project concerning women’s self-representation in visual art and writing and has recently completed a book manuscript entitled “Talking Bodies: The Discovery of the Vocal Cords and Early Neuroscience in Diderot’s Generation, 1741-1765.”
Lisa A. Freeman is Associate Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the author of Character’s Theater: Genre and Identity on the Eighteenth-Century English Stage. She is currently completing a new book manuscript titled Antitheatricality and the Body Public: From the Renaissance to the NEA.
Dustin Hannum completed his Ph.D. in English from the University of Rochester in 2011. He is currently a postdoctoral fellow in the University of Rochester’s College Writing Program. His research focuses on intersections of legal and aesthetic theory during the antebellum period.
Judy A. Hayden, Professor of English and Director of Women’s Studies at the University of Tampa, has published extensively on Restoration and eighteenth-century drama. She is the author of Of Love and War: The Political Voice in the Early Plays of Aphra Behn (Rodopi 2010), and editor of The New Science and Women’s Literary Discourse (Palgrave 2011) and Travel Narratives, the New Science and Literary Discourse, 1569-1750 (Ashgate 2012).
Julie Candler Hayes is Dean of the College of Humanities and Fine Arts at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where she is also Professor of French. Her research focuses primarily on literary and philosophical texts of the French Enlightenment; she has also written extensively on contemporary literary theory and the history and theory of translation. Her most recent book is Translation, Subjectivity, and Culture in France and England, 1600-1800 (2009). Her earlier books study French theatre and Enlightenment concepts of systematicity in literature, philosophy, and science. She co-edited two volumes, Using the Encyclopédie: Ways of Reading, Ways of Knowing (with Daniel Brewer, 2002) and Emilie Du Châtelet: Rewriting Enlightenment Philosophy and Science (with Judith Zinsser, 2006). Her current scholarly work looks at seventeenth- and eighteenth-century women moral philosophers. A past recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Humanities Center, she was recently honored by being named Chevalier in the Ordre des Palmes Académiques by the French government. She has served on the boards of a number of scholarly organizations and journals and is currently co-chair of the Committee on the Status of Women in the Profession of the Modern Language Association. She is the 2012-13 President of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.
Catherine Ingrassia is Professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth University. She has written and edited a variety of work in eighteenth-century studies including British Women Poets of the Long Eighteenth Century, co-editor (Johns Hopkins UP, 2009), Eliza Haywood’s Anti-Pamela, editor (Broadview Press), and Authorship, Commerce and Gender in Eighteenth-Century England, author (Cambridge UP, 1998).
R. Mark Jackson is an Assistant Professor of English at Angelo State University with research interests in seventeenth-century English literature and early modern science and medicine, including the writings of Francis Bacon and Margaret Cavendish. His articles and reviews have appeared in Notes & Queries, The Ben Jonson Journal, and Sixteenth Century Journal.
Elizabeth J. Mathews earned a master’s degree at Mills College and is now studying the long eighteenth century at the University of California, Irvine.
Nora Nachumi is Associate Professor of English and Coordinator of the minor in women’s studies at Yeshiva University. She is the author of Acting Like a Lady: British Women Novelists and the Eighteenth-Century Stage (2008) and of essays on individual women writers and on the teaching and practice of women’s studies.
Mona Narain is Associate Professor of English and Women’s Studies as well as Director of Graduate Studies in English at Texas Christian University (TCU) in Fort Worth, USA. She has previously published on subjectivity, gender, print culture and the public sphere in 18th-century Britain in journals such as ELH, SEL, and Studies in Romanticism. Currently she is working on two projects; one on the intersection of gender and space in Britain and a second on cross-cultural exchanges between 18th-century India and Britain.
Judith Bailey Slagle is a professor and Chair of Literature & Language at
East Tennessee State University. She has published articles and books on
Joanna Baillie, including The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie
(1999), Joanna Baillie: A Literary Life (2002) and Romantic
Appropriations of History: The Legends of Joanna Baillie and Margaret
Holford Hodson (2012) as well as works on Restoration playwright Thomas
Shadwell.
Srividhya Swaminathan is Associate Professor of English at Long Island
University, Brooklyn Campus. She is the author of Debating the Slave Trade
(Ashgate, 2009) and is currently working on a second monograph on the
rhetoric of proslavery.
Linda Zionkowski is Professor of English and Director of Graduate Studies at Ohio University. She is the author of Men’s Work: Gender, Class, and the Professionalization of Poetry, 1660-1784, and co-editor with Cynthia Klekar of The Culture of the Gift in Eighteenth-Century England; she is currently completing a book manuscript on gender and the gift in eighteenth-century fiction.
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Janine Barchas is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Texas, where she teaches Austen in Austin. Her book Graphic Design, Print Culture, and the Eighteenth-Century Novel (CUP, 2003) won the SHARP Award.
Her new book, called Matters of Fact in Jane Austen: History, Location, and Celebrity, will be published by Johns Hopkins UP in August 2012.
Emily Bowles serves as the Communications Director and Grant Coordinator of the Sexual Assault Crisis Center-Fox Cities. She has received short-term research fellowships from the Huntington Library and the Folger Shakespeare Library, where she examined manuscript writings by Jane Cavendish and Elizabeth Egerton. Emily has published articles on Margaret Cavendish, Elizabeth Egerton, Aphra Behn, Frances Brooke, and Henry Fielding, and she is currently at work on a study of Sarah Fielding’s narrative tactics.
Sheila T. Cavanagh is Professor of English and Emory College Distinguished Teaching Scholar at Emory University. Author of books on Edmund Spenser and Lady Mary Wroth, she is Director of the online Emory Women Writers Resource Project, Co-Director of the World Shakespeare Project, and editor of the online Spenser Review.
Alison Conway is Professor of English at the University of Western Ontario. She is the author of Private Interests: Women, Portraiture, and the Visual Culture of the English Novel, 1709-1791 (2001) and The Protestant Whore: Courtesan Narrative and Religious Controversy in England, 1680-1750 (2010).
Patricia L. Hamilton is an Associate Professor of English at Union University in Jackson, TN. She has published studies of Bathsua Makin, Daniel Defoe, Charlotte Lennox, and Frances Burney as well as contemporary writers Amy Tan and LeAnne Howe. Although she has earned two Pushcart Prize nominations for poetry, she is adamant that she has never once lisped in numbers.
Sharon Harrow is Professor of English at Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania. She is currently at work on a book-project tentatively titled British Sporting Culture: The Literature and Culture of Sport in the Long Eighteenth Century, which she is co-editing with Peter Radford.
Marisa Iglesias is a doctoral candidate at the University of South Florida. Her current research focuses on eighteenth-century British literature that reflects experiences in the West Indian colonies. Her additional area of interest includes servants in texts by eighteenth-century British women writers.
Dr. Leigh Johnson is an Assistant Professor of Literature and Languages at Marymount University in Arlington, VA. She teaches courses in early American literature, gender studies, and composition.
Stacey L. Kikendall is a PhD candidate at the University of New Mexico, where she is currently finishing up her dissertation on the intersection of vision, gender, and empire in nineteenth-century British literature.
Kaley Kramer is a lecturer in literature at York St John University, in York, UK, where she teaches modules on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century writing, Gothic literature, and literary theory. She has published on Mary Wollstonecraft, Charlotte Smith, and Sophia Lee and questions of ownership, identity, and belonging. She is currently researching and writing on English Catholicism in the long eighteenth century.
Kate Levin teaches in the English department and the First-Year Seminar program at Barnard College. She has published articles about Cleland, Haywood, Lennox, and Shakespeare.
Elizabeth J. Mathews earned a master’s degree at Mills College and is now studying the long eighteenth century at the University of California, Irvine.
David Mazella is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Houston. He has published a history of the concept of cynicism, The Making of Modern Cynicism (University of Virginia, 2007). He is currently working on his next book project, a literary history of the year 1771 as it unfolded in London, Edinburgh, Kingston, Jamaica, and Philadelphia.
Laura Miller, Ph.D. (Assistant Professor of English, University of West Georgia) studies the intersections of literature, media, and science during the eighteenth century. She has forthcoming publications on English editions of Il Newtonianismo per le Dame, medicine in M.G. Lewis’s The Monk, and Samuel Pepys’s collection of sea ballads. Miller is currently working on a book project about print, celebrity, and the career of Sir Isaac Newton.
Anne Milne is an ecocritic who specializes in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century British literature. She holds a PhD in English from McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada and teaches in the Bachelor of Arts and Sciences Program at the University of Guelph. She is the author of ‘Lactilla Tends her Fav’rite Cow’: Ecocritical Readings of Animals and Women in Eighteenth-Century British Labouring-Class Women’s Poetry (Bucknell 2008). Her current research focuses on land use transformation, local cultural production, and how British eighteenth-century laboring-class poets both shaped and were shaped by dynamic and often chaotic landscapes. She is also actively engaged in a creative non-fiction photo-essay project called SunScreen: Recent Adventures in Skin Cancer.
Nora Nachumi is Associate Professor of English and Coordinator of the minor in women’s studies at Yeshiva University. She is the author of Acting Like a Lady: British Women Novelists and the Eighteenth-Century Stage (2008) and of essays on individual women writers and on the teaching and practice of women’s studies.
Laura L. Runge is Professor of English at the University of South Florida. She has published on pedagogy, gender and women authors from the eighteenth century, including Gender and Language in British Literary Criticism, 1660-1790 (Cambridge) and “Teaching Eighteenth-century Women Writers” in Literature Compass (2010).
Kirsten Schultz teaches history at Seton Hall University. She is the author of Tropical Versailles: Empire, Monarchy and the Portuguese Royal Court in Rio de Janeiro, 1808-1821 (Routledge: 2001). Her current research examines understandings of authority, society, and culture in the eighteenth-century Portuguese empire.
Srividhya Swaminathan is Associate Professor of English at Long Island
University, Brooklyn Campus. She is the author of Debating the Slave Trade
(Ashgate, 2009) and is currently working on a second monograph on the
rhetoric of proslavery.
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