Early American Literature

ben bascom is an assistant professor of English at Ball State University, where he teaches American literature and queer studies. His forthcoming book, Feeling Singular: Queer Masculinities in the Early United States (Oxford UP), depicts a queer and messy world of social outcasts and eccentric personalities all striving for public attention.

michael boyden is a professor of English at Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands. He is the author of Climate and the Picturesque in the American Tropics (Oxford UP, 2022). He has also edited a collected volume titled Climate and American Literature (Cambridge UP, 2020) and a special issue of Early American Literature titled "New Natural History" (2019).

anna brickhouse teaches English and American studies at the University of Virginia. She is currently completing a book titled "Elsewhere Catastrophe: Earthquake and the Invention of America."

ryan carr is a Lecturer-in-Discipline in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, where he teaches classes in Indigenous studies and early American literature and in the Core Curriculum. His first book, a study of the Mohegan-Brothertown minister Samson Occom, is due out with Columbia University Press in early 2024.

vin carretta is professor emeritus of English at the University of Maryland. His recent publications include The Life and Letters of Philip Quaque, the First African Anglican Missionary (U of Georgia P, 2010), coedited with Ty M. Reese; an edition of Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, an African (Broadview P, 2015); Equiano, the African: Biography of a Self-Made Man (U of Georgia P, 2005; rev. ed. 2022); Olaudah Equiano: The Interesting Narrative and Other Writings (Penguin, 1995; rev. eds. 2003, 2020); an edition of The Writings of Phillis Wheatley Peters (Penguin, 2019; rev. ed. 2023); and Phillis Wheatley Peters: Biography of a Genius in Bondage (U of Georgia P, 2011, rev. eds. 2014, 2023).

jeannine delombard is a professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she is affiliated faculty in the History Department. She specializes in African American and pre-1900 American literature, with a particular interest in the intersections of slavery, law, and culture. She is the author of In the Shadow of the Gallows: Race, Crime, and American Civic Identity (U of Pennsylvania P, 2012) and Slavery on Trial: Law, Abolitionism, and Print Culture (U of North Carolina P, 2007). She is currently completing the first of a pair of book projects that examine the democratization of dignity in nineteenth-century US law and literature.

patrick m. erben is professor of English at the University of West Georgia and the author of A Harmony of the Spirits: Translation and the Language of Community in Early Pennsylvania (Omohundro Institute and U of North Carolina P, 2012) as well as The Francis Daniel Pastorius Reader: Writings by an Early American Polymath (Pennsylvania State UP, 2019). With coeditor Rebecca Harrison, Patrick is completing the collection Scripting the Past in the Present: Early America and Contemporary Culture. His future book projects include "The German Pietist Origins of American Literature" and a linguistic biography of Conrad Weiser. Pat-rick is also interested in issues of shared governance and academic freedom in higher education.

ian finseth is a professor of English at the University of North Texas. He specializes in American and African American literature of the long nineteenth century, with particular interests in the slave narrative, Civil War studies, and the environmental humanities. In addition to numerous essays, he is the author of The Civil War Dead and American Modernity (Oxford UP, 2018) and Shades of Green: Visions of Nature in the Literature of American Slavery, 1770–1860 (U of Georgia P, 2009). He has also edited or coedited several books, including The American Civil War: A Literary and Historical Anthology (Routledge, 2013) and Journeys of the Slave Narrative in the Early Americas (U of Virginia P, 2014).

jenny marie forsythe is an assistant professor of English at Western Washington University. She researches histories and cultures of translation in early American contexts.

theresa strouth gaul is a professor of English and director of the Core Curriculum at Texas Christian University. Her research focuses on nineteenth-century US women's writing, Native and Indigenous...