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• Notes on Contributors

arturo arias is John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Emeritus Professor in the Humanities at the University of California, Merced. Author of Recovering Lost Footprints: Contemporary Maya Narratives, volumes 1 (SUNY P, 2017) and 2 (SUNY P, 2018), Taking Their Word: Literature and the Signs of Central America (U of Minnesota P, 2007), The Rigoberta Menchú Controversy (U of Minnesota P, 2000), The Identity of the Word: Guatemalan Literature in Light of the New Century (1998), and Ceremonial Gestures: Central American Fiction 1960–1990 (1998), he also cowrote the film El Norte (1984) and has published seven novels. A 2020 Guggenheim Award recipient and 2019 visiting professor at Princeton University, he is twice winner of the Casa de las Americas Award (1979 and 1981) and winner of the Ana Seghers Award for Fiction in Germany (1990).

thomas n. baker is a professor of history at the State University of New York at Potsdam. He is the author of Sentiment and Celebrity: Nathaniel Parker Willis and the Trials of Literary Fame (Oxford UP, 1999). He enjoys turning cryptic archival discoveries to good use, having published articles on Aaron Burr's intriguing for the presidency, the mysterious letter of "A Slave" to Thomas Jefferson, memory-making in Lyman Beecher's autobiography, and the forgotten genealogy of Deism in New York State.

christopher allan black is an assistant professor of teaching and member of the American Literature faculty at the University of Memphis, where he teaches courses in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American literature and composition. He is president of the James Fenimore Cooper Society and associate editor of the James Fenimore Cooper Society Journal. His articles and reviews have appeared and are forthcoming in Early American Literature, Rocky Mountain Review: The Journal of the Rocky Mountain MLA, ESQ, the Review of English Studies, and Studies in American Culture. His first book, The Anti-Gallows Movement and Republican Social Justice Reform in Antebellum Literature 1772–1862, is currently forthcoming with Lexington Books, an imprint of Rowman and Littlefield. He is the recipient of three National Endowment for the Humanities summer research fellowships.

elizabeth a. bohls is a professor of English at the University of Oregon. She has published three books: Women Travel Writers and the Language of Aesthetics, 1716–1818 (Cambridge UP, 1995); Romantic Literature and Postcolonial Studies (Edinburgh UP, 2013); and Slavery and the Politics of Place: Representing the Colonial Caribbean, 1772–1833 (Cambridge UP, 2014). Recent interests include representations of the African diaspora in early Caribbean visual culture, exploration writing, and the novel.

daniel diez couch is an associate professor of English at the US Air Force Academy. He is the author of American Fragments: The Political Aesthetic of Unfinished Forms in the Early Republic (U of Pennsylvania P, 2022) and coeditor of The Part and the Whole in Early American Literature, Print Culture, and Art (Bucknell UP, 2024). He is currently at work on a book project that examines the affective and political history of literary character in the early American novel.

ingrid diran is an assistant professor in the Department of English at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

william glover is a fourth-year PhD candidate in English at Boston University. He specializes in early American nonfiction, with a particular focus on competing representations of landscape, land ownership, natural resources, and labor. He has also published on Wordsworth and J. R. R. Tolkien.

abby goode is an associate professor of English and sustainability studies at Plymouth State University in New Hampshire. She is the author of Agrotopias: An American Literary History of Sustainability (U of North Carolina P, 2022). Her current research focuses on early climate theories in US literature.

carlos macías prieto is an assistant professor of Romance languages at Williams College, where he teaches literature and Spanish-language courses. He received his PhD from the University of California at Berkeley in Hispanic Languages and Literatures and holds an MA in American studies from Purdue University. His research is focused on colonial Latin American literature, particularly in the writings of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Nahua intellectuals of New Spain. His research interest also includes Indigenous rebellions in the Americas across time and space...