Early American Literature

alexander lawrence ames is the author of The Word in the Wilderness: Popular Piety and the Manuscript Arts in Early Pennsylvania (Penn State UP, 2020) and the host of Cloister Talk: The Pennsylvania German Material Texts Podcast. He works as Collections Engagement Manager at the Rosenbach, a historic house museum and special collections library affiliated with the Free Library of Philadelphia. He holds an MA in American material culture and a PhD in history of American civilization and museum studies from the University of Delaware.

sharada balachandran orihuela is associate professor of English and comparative literature at the University of Maryland, College Park. Her first book, Fugitives, Smugglers, and Thieves: Piracy and Personhood in Hemispheric American Literature (U of North Carolina P, 2018), examines depictions of illegal trade and makes them prominent in the analysis of American literature and in the construction of minoritarian racial, national, and gendered identities in the US. Her articles and reviews have appeared in American Literary History, Arizona Quarterly, J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists, Environmental Communication, MELUS, and e-misférica.

joshua david bellin teaches literature and writing at La Roche University. He has published numerous works that explore the intersection of American and Indigenous literary study, including The Demon of the Continent: Indians and the Shaping of American Literature (U of Pennsylvania P, 2001), Medicine Bundle: Indian Sacred Performance and American Literature, 1824–1932 (U of Pennsylvania P, 2007), and an essay on Thoreau and Indian performance that won the inaugural Herbert Ross Brown Prize in New England Literary History from the New England Quarterly. In his free time, he draws political cartoons and writes environmentally themed science fiction and fantasy novels.

lisa blee is associate professor of history at Wake Forest University, where she teaches courses in public history, environmental history, and the US West. Her research focuses on historical memory, monuments, and Indigenous history. She is the author of Framing Chief Leschi: Narratives and the Politics of Historical Justice (U of North Carolina P, 2014) and coauthor (with Jean O'Brien) of Monumental Mobility: The Memory Work of Massasoit (U of North Carolina P, 2019).

rachel byington (she/her), a citizen of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, centers her work on serving American Indian communities particularly in the education realm including policy, professional development, and programming. She received her associate's degree from Madison College, and her bachelor's, master's, and PhD in the School of Human Ecology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Her master's thesis focused on the role of American Indian cultural programming on urban American Indian youth. Her dissertation focused on the impact of Act 31 (Wisconsin's requirement for public schools to teach about the history, culture, and sovereignty of the tribes in Wisconsin) on urban American Indian youth. She is married and has three kids and three grandkids.

elisabeth ceppi is professor of English at Portland State University and the author of Invisible Masters: Gender, Race, and the Economy of Service in Early New England (Dartmouth UP, 2018).

paul conrad is an assistant professor of history and English at the University of Texas at Arlington. He holds a BA from Stony Brook University and an MA and PhD from UT-Austin. His book, The Apache Diaspora: Four Centuries of Displacement and Survival, is forthcoming from U of Pennsylvania P in April 2021 and was supported by fellowships at the Clement Center for Southwest Studies and the McNeil Center for Early American Studies. He is currently at work on a second project examining the role of Native interpreters in the colonial North American West.

daniel diez couch is assistant professor of English at the US Air Force Academy, where he teaches eighteenthand nineteenth-century American literature. He is currently at work on a book manuscript that examines the history of literary fragments, portions of which have appeared in Early American Literature and The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation. Other essays of his have appeared in venues including Early American Studies and Arizona Quarterly: A Journal of American Literature, Culture, and Theory.

tom cutterham is a senior lecturer in US history at the University of Birmingham, in the United Kingdom. His...