Sari Altschuler is Associate Professor of English at Northeastern University. She is co‐editor of the recent Early American Literature issue on disability with Cristobal Silva and author of The Medical Imagination: Literature and Health in the Early United States (2018). Her work appears in American Literature, American Literary History, PMLA, and Lancet.
Stephen Carl Arch is Professor of English at Michigan State University. He is the author of two monographs and numerous scholarly articles on early American literature. Most recently, he has edited James Fenimore Cooper’s 1838 novel, Home as Found, for The Writings of James Fenimore Cooper (2020).
Eve Tavor Bannet is George Lynn Cross Professor Emeritus at the University of Oklahoma. She is editor of Eighteenth‐Century Culture and series co‐editor of the online collection “Eighteenth‐Century Connections” at Cambridge University Press. Her most recent book is Manners of Reading: Print Culture and Popular Instruction in the Anglophone Atlantic World (2017), and she is currently completing a book on letters in novels.
Philip Barnard is Emeritus Professor of English at The University of Kansas. He has edited Charles Brockden Brown’s four canonical romances (with Stephen Shapiro) and is textual editor of the seven‐volume Bucknell Collected Writings of Charles Brockden Brown edition, along with the Brown electronic archive.
Chiara Cillerai is Associate Professor at St. John’s University, NY. Her research focuses on eighteenth‐century transatlantic literary culture and the Enlightenment. Her book Voices of Cosmopolitanism in Early American Writings and Culture (2017) reassesses the terms in which we understand Enlightenment cosmopolitanism. She is currently co‐editing a collection of Elizabeth Graeme Fergusson’s manuscript poems and other writings.
Jennifer A. Desiderio is Associate Professor of English at Canisius College. She is the co‐editor of the Broadview edition of Hannah Webster Foster’s The Coquette and The Boarding School (2011), and the guest co‐editor of a double special issue of Studies in American Fiction called Beyond Charlotte Temple: New Approaches to Susanna Rowson (2011). Her scholarship on eighteenth‐ and nineteenth‐century American literature has appeared in American Periodicals, Early American Literature, Studies in American Fiction, and Legacy.
Michael J. Drexler is Professor of English at Bucknell University. He is the co‐editor of The Haitian Revolution and the Early United States (2016) and co‐author of The Traumatic Colonel: The Founding Fathers, Slavery, and the Phantasmatic Aaron Burr (2014). Currently, he is working on fugitive slave narratives and the American novel‐form.
Patrick M. Erben is Professor of early American literature at the University of West Georgia. He is author of A Harmony of the Spirits: Translation and the Language of Community in Early Pennsylvania (2012) and editor of The Francis Daniel Pastorius Reader (2019).
Duncan Faherty is Associate Professor of English & American Studies at Queens College and The Graduate Center, CUNY. He is the author of Remodeling the Nation: The Architecture of American Identity, 1776–1858 (2009) and is currently at work on a book about the Haitian Revolution and early US print culture.
Philip Gould is Israel J. Kapstein Professor of English, Brown University. He is the author, most recently, of Writing the Rebellion: Loyalists and the Literature of Politics in British America (2013).
Peter J. Grund is Associate Professor of English Language Studies at the University of Kansas. He is co‐editor of Records of the Salem Witch‐Hunt (2009) and has published extensively on the historical, rhetorical, and linguistic aspects of the Salem trial records.
Sandra M. Gustafson is Professor of English and Concurrent Professor of American Studies at the University of Notre Dame. Her most recent monograph is Imagining Deliberative Democracy in the Early American Republic (2011). She edits Early American Literature and the Norton Anthology of American Literature, Vol. A.
Tamara Harvey is Associate Professor of English at George Mason University. Her research focuses on women and the early Americas. She is the author of Figuring Modesty in Feminist Discourse Across the Americas, 1633–1700 (2008) and co‐editor of books on George Washington and global gender justice today.
Elizabeth Hewitt is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the Ohio State University, Columbus. She is the author of Correspondence and American Literature, 1770–1865 (2009) and a co‐editor of Letters and Early Epistolary Writings (2013) in The Collected Writings of Charles Brockden Brown series.
Susan C. Imbarrato is Professor of English at Minnesota State University Moorhead. She is the author of Sarah Gray Cary from Boston to Grenada: Shifting Fortunes of an American Family, 1764–1826 (2018) and Traveling Women: Narrative Visions of Early America (2006).
Mark L. Kamrath is Professor of English at the University of Central Florida. He is the author or co‐editor of various books on Charles Brockden Brown and has built with Philip Barnard and others an XML‐based archive of Brown’s writings. He is general editor of The Charles Brockden Brown Electronic Archive and Scholarly Edition.
Trish Loughran is Associate Professor of English and Affiliate Faculty in History and the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory at the University of Illinois, Champaign‐Urbana. She is the author of The Republic in Print: Print Culture in the Age of U.S. Nation‐Building, 1776–1870 (2007).
Laura L. Mielke is Professor of English at the University of Kansas. She is the author of Provocative Eloquence: Theater, Violence, and Antislavery Speech in the Antebellum United States (2019) and Moving Encounters: Sympathy and the Indian Question in Antebellum Literature (2008), and co‐editor of Native Acts: Indian Performance, 1607–1823 (2011).
Andrew Newman is Professor of English and History at Stony Brook University. He is the author On Records: Delaware Indians, Colonists, and the Media of History and Memory (2012) and Allegories of Encounter: Colonial Literacies and Indian Captivity (2019).
Christopher N. Phillips is Professor of English at Lafayette College. A specialist in American historical poetics and book history, his books include Epic in American Culture, Settlement to Reconstruction (2012), The Hymnbook: A Reading History (2018), and (as editor) The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the American Renaissance (2018).
Wendy Raphael Roberts is Assistant Professor of English at the University at Albany, State University of New York. She is completing a book on early evangelical American poetry. Her work has appeared most recently in Early American Literature and has been supported by a number of prestigious fellowships.
Kenneth M. Roemer, Piper Professor at the University of Texas at Arlington, co‐edited The Cambridge Companion to Native American Literature (2005), edited Native American Writers of the US (1997) and Approaches to Teaching Momaday’s Way to Rainy Mountain (1988), and authored four books on utopia, including a Pulitzer nominee.
Phillip H. Round is John C. Gerber Professor of English at the University of Iowa. His most recent book, Removable Type: Histories of the Book in Indian Country, 1664–1880 (2010), was awarded the James Russell Lowell Prize from the Modern Language Association. His current research has been supported by a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship.
John Saillant is Professor of English and History at Western Michigan University. He is author of Black Puritan, Black Republican (2003), co‐editor (with Joanna Brooks) of “Face Zion Forward” (2002), area editor of African American National Biography (2008), and author or editor of numerous articles and historical documents.
Jodi Schorb is Associate Professor of English at the University of Florida. Her interests include early American literature and life writing, eighteenth‐century print culture, the history of literacy, and theories of gender and sexuality. She is the author of Reading Prisoners: Literature, Literacy, and the Transformation of American Punishment, 1700–1845 (2014).
Ivy Schweitzer is Professor of English and past chair of Women’s and Gender Studies at Dartmouth College. Her fields are early American literature, women’s literature, gender, and cultural studies. Most recently, she edited a weekly blog, White Heat, about the year 1862 in the creative life of Emily Dickinson, which can be accessed at https://journeys.dartmouth.edu/whiteheat/.
Stephen Shapiro teaches in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick. His publications include The Culture and Commerce of the Early American Novel: Reading the Atlantic World‐system (2008) and four edited volumes of Charles Brockden Brown’s romances (with Philip Barnard).
Cassander L. Smith is Associate Professor of English at the University of Alabama. Her research focuses on representations of black Africans in early Atlantic literature. Her publications include Black Africans in the British Imagination: English Narratives of the Early Atlantic World (2016).
Susan M. Stabile is Associate Professor of English at Texas A&M University. Her scholarly work in material culture includes Memory’s Daughters: The Material Culture of Remembrance in Eighteenth‐Century America (2004). She is currently completing a collection of creative non‐fiction essays, Salvage, on the second life of objects and humans.
Timothy Sweet is Eberly Family Distinguished Professor of American Literature at West Virginia University. His publications include Traces of War (1990), American Georgics (2002), and Literary Cultures of the Civil War (2016). He is working on a study of agency and responsibility in extinction narratives.
Abram Van Engen is Associate Professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis. He is the author of Sympathetic Puritans: Calvinist Fellow Feeling in Early New England (2015) and The Meaning of America: How the United States Became the City on a Hill (2020), along with several articles on early American religion, literature, and culture.
Kelly Wisecup is Associate Professor of English at Northwestern University. She is the author of Medical Encounters: Knowledge and Identity in Early American Literatures (2013) and a scholarly edition of Edward Winslow’s Good News from New England (2014).
Hilary E. Wyss is the Allan K. Smith and Gwendolyn Miles Smith Professor of English at Trinity College, where she teaches courses in early American literature, American studies, and Native American studies. She is the author of over a dozen articles and book chapters as well as three books on Native American literacy practices in early America.