CONTRIBUTORS

Anthony Bogues is Asa Messer Professor of Humanities and Critical Theory and director of the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice at Brown University. He is the author of Empire of Liberty: Power, Freedom and Desire (2010) and editor of From Revolution in the Tropics to Imagined Landscape: The Art of Edouard Duval-Carrié (2014).

Marlene L. Daut is associate professor of English and Cultural Studies at Claremont Graduate University, where she also directs the Graduate Certificate Program in Africana Studies. She is the author of Tropics of Haiti: Race and the Literary History of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World, 1789–1865 (2015).

Elizabeth Maddock Dillon is professor of English at Northeastern University. She is the author of New World Drama: The Performative Commons in the Atlantic World, 1649–1849 (2014) and The Gender of Freedom: Fictions of Liberalism and the Literary Public Sphere (2004).

Michael J. Drexler is professor of English at Bucknell University. He is the author (with Ed White) of The Traumatic Colonel: The Founding Fathers, Slavery, and the Phantasmatic Aaron Burr (2014) and editor of Leonora Sansay’s Secret History; or, The Horrors of St. Domingo and Laura (2007).

Laurent Dubois is Marcello Lotti Professor of Romance Studies and History. He is the author of Haiti: The Aftershocks of History (2012) and Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution (2004).

James Alexander Dun is assistant professor of history at Princeton University. He is the author of Dangerous Neighbors: Making the Haitian Revolution in Early America (2016) and “Atlantic Antislavery, American Abolition,” in Andrew Shankman, ed., The World of the Revolutionary Republic (2014).

Duncan Faherty is associate professor of English and American studies at Queens College and the City University of New York Graduate Center. He is the author of Remodeling The Nation: The Architecture of American Identity, 1776–1858 and the co-curator of the Just Teach One textual recovery project housed at the American Antiquarian Society.

Carolyn Fick is associate professor of history at Concordia University in Montreal. She is the author of The Making of Haiti: The Saint Domingue Revolution from Below (1990), recently translated and published in French, titled: Haïti: Naissance d’une Nation. La Révolution de Saint-Domingue vue d’en bas (2013/2014).

David Geggus is professor of history at the University of Florida, Gainesville. Among his most recent publications are Haitian Revolutionary Studies (2002) and The Haitian Revolution: A Documentary History (2014).

Kieran M. Murphy is assistant professor of French and comparative literature at the University of Colorado–Boulder. He is the author of “Electromagnetic Thought in Balzac, Villiers de l’Isle-Adam and Joseph Breuer” (2011) and “White Zombie” (2011).

Colleen C. O’Brien is associate professor of American literature at the University of South Carolina–Upstate. She is the author of Race, Romance, and Rebellion: Literatures of the Americas in the Nineteenth Century (2013).

Peter P. Reed is associate professor of English at the University of Mississippi. He is the author of Rogue Performances: Staging the Underclasses in Early American Theatre Culture (2009) and essays on Atlantic theatre, racial performance, and Haiti’s influence on nineteenth-century American culture.

Siân Silyn Roberts is associate professor of English at Queens College, City University New York. She is the author of Gothic Subjects: The Transformation of Individualism in American Fiction, 1790–1861 (2014), and has contributed to the edited volume The Transatlantic Turn of the Gothic (2013).

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).

Ed White is Pierce Butler Professor of English at Tulane University. He is the author of The Backcountry and the City (2005) and (with Michael J. Drexler) The Traumatic Colonel: The Founding Fathers, Slavery, and the Phantasmatic Aaron Burr (2014).

Ivy G. Wilson is associate professor of English and director of the program in American studies at Northwestern University. He is author of Specters of Democracy: Blackness and the Aesthetics of Politics in the Antebellum U.S. (2011) and editor (with Dana Luciano) of Unsettled States: Nineteenth-Century American Literary Studies (2014).

Gretchen J. Woertendyke is associate professor of English at the University of South Carolina. She is the author of Hemispheric Regionalism: Romance and the Geography of Genre (2016).

Edlie Wong is associate professor of English at the University of Maryland–College Park. She is the author of Racial Reconstruction: Black Inclusion, Chinese Exclusion, and the Fictions of Citizenship (2015) and Neither Fugitive nor Free: Atlantic Slavery, Freedom Suits, and the Legal Culture of Travel (2009).