Early American Literature

bruce burgett is an Associate Professor of American Studies in the Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences Program at the University of Washington-Bothell, and is a member of the graduate faculty at the University of Washington-Seattle. He is the author of Sentimental Bodies: Sex, Gender, and Citizenship in the Early Republic (Princeton, 1998), and is currently working on a study of nineteenth-century sexual reform cultures.

christopher castiglia, Associate Professor of English at Loyola University, Chicago, is the author of Bound and Determined: Captivity, Culture-Crossing, and White Womanhood from Mary Rowlandson to Patty Hearst (Chicago, 1996) and Interior States: The Romance of Reform and the Inner Life of a Nation (Duke, forthcoming).

max cavitch, Assistant Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania, is completing a book on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American elegy.

kathleen donegan is a graduate student in the American Studies Program at Yale University. Currently, she is a grantee at the Henry E. Huntington Library, where she is at work on a dissertation entitled “Cast Away in the New World: Catastrophe, Narrative, and Settlement in Seventeenth-Century British North America.”

janice knight is Associate Professor of English at the University of Chicago. She is currently working on a study of confessional narratives and radical spiritualities in early America.

michael meranze is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of Laboratories of Virtue: Punishment, Revolution, and Authority in Philadelphia, 1760–1835. He is presently at work on a book on the body, violence, and the meanings of the American Revolution.

julia stern, Associate Professor of English and Director of Graduate Studies at Northwestern University, is the author of The Plight of Feeling: Sympathy and Dissent in the Early American Novel (Chicago, 1997). She is working on two book manuscripts, “Writing the House Divided: Epic, Miniature, and Mary Chesnut’s Civil War,” and “Life on the Food Chain: Appetite, Affect, and American Autobiography, 1855–1885.” [End Page 155]