• Notes on Contributors

brad bannon is a senior lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He is the author of Jonathan Edwards, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and the Supernatural Will in American Literature (Routledge, 2019), and coeditor with John Vanderheide of Cormac McCarthy's Violent Destinies: The Poetics of Determinism and Fatalism (U of Tennessee P, 2018). He has also published essays in the Cormac McCarthy Journal, the Journal of the History of Ideas, and James Joyce Quarterly.

maría helena barrera-agarwal is an attorney, a researcher, and a translator. Her interests span from literature and law to cultures in contact. She is the author of eight nonfiction books, of which the most recent is Disquisiciones (SurEditores, 2022). In 2010, her book Merton y Ecuador: La búsqueda del país secreto received Ecuador's most prestigious literary award, the Aurelio Espinosa Pólit National Prize. She is member of the National Academy of History (Ecuador), the India International Centre (India), and Pen America (United States).

ralph bauer is a professor of English and comparative literature at the University of Maryland focusing on the colonial Americas, hemispheric studies, and the history of science. His publications include The Alchemy of Conquest: Science, Religion, and the Secrets of the New World (U of Virginia P, 2019); The Cultural Geography of Colonial American Literatures: Empire, Travel, Modernity (Cambridge UP 2003, 2008); An Inca Account of the Conquest of Peru (U of Colorado P, 2005), as well as several coedited collections and special issues.

kristina bross is the author of Dry Bones and Indian Sermons: Praying Indians in Colonial America (Cornell UP, 2004) and Future History: Global Fantasies in American British and Writings (Oxford UP, 2017). She is coeditor of Early Native American Literacies in New England: A Documentary and Critical Anthology (U of Massachusetts P, 2008) and American Puritan Literature (Cambridge UP, 2020). She is a professor of English and the Associate Dean for Research and Creative Endeavors in the John Martinson Honors College at Purdue University.

david capps is a lecturer in the Philosophy and Humanistic Studies Department at Western Connecticut State University. His research concerns topics in analytic epistemology and the interactions between philosophy and poetics. He has two books forthcoming: Love through Literature: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Love and Friendship (Kendall Hunt P) and Poems from the First Voyage (Nasiona P). His poems have been featured in Peacock Journal, Mantra Review, and Cagibi, among others. His most recent philosophy paper, "Liminality and Bachelardian Space in Herbert Mason's Gilgamesh," appeared in the Winter 2018 issue of Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies.

dawn coleman is an associate professor of English and affiliate faculty in Religious Studies at the University of Tennessee. She is the author of Preaching and the Rise of the American Novel (Ohio State UP, 2013) and of numerous essays on nineteenth-century American religion, literature, and secularism. She currently serves as the executive secretary of the Melville Society and on the advisory boards of the American Religion and Literature Society and of Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies. She has two books in progress, "Margaret's Ghosts: Inventing Secular Womanhood in American Literature" and "Melville and Secular Spirituality."

james edward ford iii is an associate professor of English and Black Studies at Occidental College. He published Thinking through Crisis: Depression-Era Black Literature, Theory and Politics with Fordham University Press. He is currently working on the book project "Phillis, the Black Swan: Disheveling the Origins of African American Literature."

kirsten silva gruesz is a leading expert on Spanish-language print culture in the United States and the author of Ambassadors of Culture: The Transamerican Origins of Latino Writing. She is a professor of literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

robynne rogers healey is a professor of history and the codirector of the Gender Studies Institute at Trinity Western University in British Columbia, Canada. She is an associate editor (history) of the series Brill Research Perspectives in Quaker Studies. Her publications include From Quaker to Upper Canadian: Faith and Community among Yonge Street Friends, 1801–1850 (McGill-Queen's UP, 2006); Quaker Studies: An Overview—the Current State of the...

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布拉德·班农是田纳西大学诺克斯维尔分校英语系的高级讲师。他是《乔纳森·爱德华兹》、《塞缪尔·泰勒·柯勒律治》和《美国文学中的超自然意志》 （劳特利奇，2019 年）的作者，并与约翰·范德海德合编了《科马克·麦卡锡的暴力命运：决定论和宿命论的诗学》（田纳西大学出版社，2018 年） 。他还在《Cormac McCarthy Journal》、《Journal of the History of Ideas》和《James Joyce Quarterly》上发表过文章。

maría helena barrera-agarwal是一名律师、研究员和翻译。她的兴趣涵盖文学、法律以及接触的文化。她是八本非小说类书籍的作者，其中最新一本是《Disquisiciones》（SurEditores，2022 年）。2010年，她的著作《默顿与厄瓜多尔：秘密国家的秘密》获得了厄瓜多尔最负盛名的文学奖——奥雷利奥·埃斯皮诺萨·波利特国家奖。她是美国国家历史学院（厄瓜多尔）、印度国际中心（印度）和美国笔会（美国）的成员。

拉尔夫·鲍尔是马里兰大学英语和比较文学教授，主要研究美洲殖民地、西半球研究和科学史。他的出版物包括《征服的炼金术：科学、宗教和新世界的秘密》（弗吉尼亚大学 P，2019 年）；美国殖民地文学的文化地理学：帝国、旅行、现代性（Cambridge UP 2003、2008）；印加征服秘鲁的记述（科罗拉多大学 P，2005 年），以及几本合编的文集和特刊。

克里斯蒂娜·布罗斯是《干骨头和印第安布道：美国殖民地的印第安人祈祷》（康奈尔大学出版社，2004年）和《未来历史：美国英国人和著作中的全球幻想》 （牛津大学出版社，2017年）的作者。她是《新英格兰早期美洲原住民文学：纪录片和评论选集》（马萨诸塞大学出版社，2008 年）和《美国清教徒文学》（剑桥大学出版社，2020 年）的共同编辑。她是普渡大学约翰·马丁森荣誉学院的英语教授和研究与创意事业副院长。

大卫·卡普斯是西康涅狄格州立大学哲学与人文研究系的讲师。他的研究涉及分析认识论以及哲学与诗学之间的相互作用。他即将出版两本书：《文学中的爱：爱与友谊哲学导论》（Kendall Hunt P）和《第一次航行的诗》（Nasiona P）。他的诗歌曾在《Peacock Journal》、《Mantra Review》和《Cagibi》等杂志上发表。他最新的哲学论文《赫伯特·梅森的《吉尔伽美什》中的阈限和巴什拉德空间”发表在《语言、文学和跨学科研究》 2018 年冬季刊上。

道恩·科尔曼 (dawn coleman)是田纳西大学英语系副教授兼宗教研究系副教授。她是《讲道与美国小说的崛起》 （俄亥俄州立大学出版社，2013 年）一书的作者，并发表了大量有关 19 世纪美国宗教、文学和世俗主义的文章。她目前担任梅尔维尔协会的执行秘书，以及美国宗教与文学协会和《利维坦：梅尔维尔研究杂志》的顾问委员会成员。她正在写两本书：《玛格丽特的幽灵：在美国文学中创造世俗女性》和《梅尔维尔与世俗灵性》。

詹姆斯·爱德华·福特三世是西方学院英语和黑人研究副教授。他与福特汉姆大学出版社合作出版了《思考危机：大萧条时期的黑人文学、理论与政治》 。他目前正在开展图书项目“菲利斯，黑天鹅：揭开非裔美国文学的起源”。

克尔斯滕·席尔瓦·格鲁斯（Kirsten Silva Gruesz）是美国西班牙语印刷文化方面的权威专家，也是《文化大使：拉丁裔写作的跨美洲起源》一书的作者。她是加州大学圣克鲁斯分校的文学教授。

罗宾尼·罗杰斯·希利是加拿大不列颠哥伦比亚省西三一大学历史学教授兼性别研究所联席主任。她是贵格会研究中的布里尔研究观点系列的副主编（历史）。她的出版物包括《从贵格会到上加拿大：央街朋友的信仰和社区，1801-1850》（McGill-Queen's UP，2006）；贵格会研究：概述——现状...