Contributors
Miriam Al Jamil participates in a Wollstonecraft reading Group, follows Newington Green events and has contributed to a Wollstonecraft Anthology: https://www.ngmh.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/W-NG-Anthology-draft-with-images-1.pdf
She reviews widely and is Fine Arts review editor for BSECS Criticks online platform.
Her chapter on a Zoffany painting was published in 2020 in Antiquity and Enlightenment Culture https://brill.com/view/title/55350
Rebekah Andrew is in the final stages of her PhD, which investigates biblical references in the novels of Samuel Richardson and Henry Fielding. She also has an interest in eighteenth-century theology.
Rebecca Anne Barr is a lecturer in the Faculty of English at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Jesus College.
JoEllen DeLucia is Professor of English at Central Michigan University and the author of A Feminine Enlightenment: British Women Writers and the Philosophy of Progress, 1759-1820 (EUP, 2015). Recently, she co-edited an essay collection with Juliet Shields entitled Migration and Modernities: the State of Being Stateless, 1750-1850 (EUP, 2019). Portions of her current research project on George Robinson’s media network and Romantic-era literature have appeared in European Romantic Review and Jennie Batchelor and Manushag Powell’s Women’s Magazines and Print Culture 1690-1820s.
Erica Johnson Edwards is an Assistant Professor of History at Francis Marion University. She teaches courses on European history, the Atlantic World, and historical writing. She is author of a monograph, Philanthropy and Race in the Haitian Revolution, part of the Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018). Her current research focuses the symbolic importance of the Haitian Revolution and its leaders for in rural Black Oklahomans.
Jenny Factor is a Lecturer in Poetry at the California Institute of Technology. She studies eighteenth-century women’s collaborative writing at Brandeis University, and is the author of two volumes of poetry, Unraveling at the Name (Copper Canyon Press, 2002) and Want the Lake (Red Hen Press, 2023).
Victoria Ramirez Gentry is currently a second year PhD student at The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA). Her interests include anti-racist pedagogy, the hybridity of multiethnic identities, and borderland rhetoric. A South Texas Chicana, Victoria attended community college before transferring to Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi where she obtained her bachelor’s and master’s degrees while working as a writing consultant and composition instructor. Victoria now teaches technical writing at UTSA while she works on her PhD and enjoys spending her free time with her spouse Nick and their two dogs.
Ereck Jarvis is an Assistant Professor of English and coordinator of English graduate programs at Northwestern State University of Louisiana. He has published on Thomas Sprat, Samuel Butler’s “The Elephant in the Moon,” and late seventeenth-century English political associations.
Misty Krueger is an Associate Professor at the University of Maine at Farmington. She was the 2017 JASNA International Visitor and has published on Austen’s juvenilia and novels, as well as Austen adaptations, pedagogy, popular culture, and social media. She co-edited a Persuasions On–Line issue on teaching Austen and edited the collection Transatlantic Women Travelers, 1688–1843, published by Bucknell University Press.
Mindy Lin is a graduate student in Cal Poly Pomona’s M.A. in English program with emphasis in rhetoric/composition and English literature. Her research interests include postcolonialism, Indigenous methodologies, narratology, transculturality, modernism, and medical humanities. Having taught English literature in international settings in Hawaii and in Taiwan, her experiences have cultivated a continued interest in temporality, urban spaces, and identity construction – especially as they relate to studies in globalization and migration. In her spare time, her hobbies include drawing and digital art, hiking, nature photography, and creative writing.
David Mazella is an Associate Professor of British Literature in the Department of English at the University of Houston. He is the author of The Making of Modern Cynicism (University of Virginia Press, 2007) and articles on Hume, Swift, 18th Century Dialogues of the Dead, Hobbes, Lillo, and Sterne. His current project is a literary and cultural history of the year 1771 as it unfolded in four British imperial cities, London, Edinburgh, Philadelphia, and Kingston, Jamaica. He has also led a DH project studying the interlocking genre systems of those cities in the target year.
Jasmine Nevarez is a recent graduate of California State Polytechnic University- Pomona. She is looking to start a master’s and credential program in education by the Fall of 2021. She plans to be a high school English teacher and eventually wants to work in educational policy. Her interests include social justice in education, urban education, and ethnic studies.
Nourhan is an undergraduate student in Cal Poly Pomona’s English and Modern Languages department and studies English, literary studies. She will be attending Cal Poly Pomona’s M.A. program in the beginning of Fall 2021 focusing on English literature and rhetoric/composition and wishes to pursue a doctoral degree in comparative literature. Her research interests include building solidarity efforts between SWANA (South West Asia and North Africa) and majority world countries, studying postcolonial theory in conjunction with decolonial praxis,including BDS (Boycott and Divestment Sanctions) activism in all her work, and studying Egyptian revolutionary history and politics. Nourhan does all of this in the hopes that she will impact the liberation of her two beloveds; Egypt and Palestine.
Kate Ozment is Assistant Professor of English at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona where she teaches in the very broad Early Modern period with an emphasis on gender and the literature of colonialism. Her classroom reflects a continued if imperfect engagement with the work of bell hooks, Barbara Smith, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Linda Tuhiwai Smith, and Saidiya Hartman; scholarly and creative communities that inspire and prompt her to always ask more questions; and dozens of students who have made brilliant connections and reshaped syllabi over the years.
Sam Plasencia is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Colby College, where she teaches eighteenth and nineteenth-century transatlantic literature. Her scholarship focuses on early African American writing and print cultures.
Kerry Sinanan is Assistant Professor of 18th and 19th Century Transatlantic Literature at the University of Texas at San Antonio. She is currently completing her monograph, Myths of Mastery: Traders, Planters and Colonial Agents 1750-1833 for The University of North Carolina Press. Her most recent article is on Mary Prince (‘The “Slave” as Cultural Artifact: The Case of Mary Prince’, Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture. Vol. 49) and she has recently been contracted by Broadview Press to edit a new edition of The History of Mary Prince. A West Indian Slave. Related by Herself. She has received research fellowships from the Beinecke Library, the James Ford Bell Library and in 2017 she was a Visiting Scholar at the Yale Center for British Art.
Jessica Valenzuela is a student at California Polytechnic State University Pomona studying English Education. She is currently working towards obtaining her teaching credential. She aspires to become a high school English teacher in the near future. Outside of academia, she works at a restaurant and volunteers with a local food distribution collective in Los Angeles. She hopes to incorporate her passion for service learning into her pedagogy.
Mariam Wassif received her B.A. from the University of Georgia and her PhD from Cornell University (2018), with a specialization in British literature of the long eighteenth century, including Romanticism. Her scholarship focuses on the relationship between literary style and material culture in an era of advancing capitalism and global unrest, and has appeared in European Romantic Review, Philological Quarterly, and The Wordsworth Circle. Her book manuscript in progress is entitled “Poisoned Vestments”: Rhetoric and Material Culture in England and France, 1660-1820. She is currently a Research and Teaching fellow at the University of Paris 1- Panthéon-Sorbonne.
