Early American Literature

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...