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Mathew Worley

Matthew Worley is Professor of Modern History at the University of Reading. He has written widely on British labour and political history, including books on the Communist Party of Great Britain, Labour Party and Sir Oswald Mosley’s New Party. His…

E. L. McCallum

E. L. McCallum is Associate Professor of English at Michigan State University where she teaches film studies, critical theory, queer and feminist theory, and LGBTQ literature. Her most recent book is Unmaking The Making of Americans: Toward an…

Mary McAlpin

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Mary McAlpin is Professor of French at the University of Tennessee. Her research interests include the French Revolution, the epistolary novel, and the history of medicine, with an emphasis on gender and sexuality. She is the author of two…

Nancy Locke

Nancy Locke is Associate Professor and Interim Associate Head of the Department of Art History at Penn State University. She is the author of Manet and the Family Romance (Princeton University Press, 2001). Her articles have appeared in journals such…

Christian Haines

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Christian Haines is Assistant Professor of English at Dartmouth College. He specializes in nineteenth-century and post-WWII U.S. literature, biopolitics, Marxist critical theory, continental philosophy, gender studies and queer theory, and utopian…

Nathaniel Wolloch

Nathaniel Wolloch is an Israeli scholar. He received his PhD from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1998). He has taught over the years at various universities and colleges in Israel, including Tel Aviv University and the University of Haifa. In…

Naoko Wake

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Naoko Wake is an Associate Professor of History at Michigan State University. Her field is the history of medicine, gender, sexuality in the United States and the Pacific Rim, and she is the author of Private Practices: Harry Stack Sullivan, the…

David Michael McCarthy

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David McCarthy served most recently as a Visiting Lecturer at Central Michigan University, where he taught graduate and undergraduate courses on music history and ethnomusicology. He studies interdependencies between modern ideologies and acts of…

Natania Meeker

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Natania Meeker is Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California. Her research focuses on the relationship between theories of materiality and the poetic or figural production of subjectivities,…

Valentina Irena Denzel

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Valentina Denzel received her doctoral degree at Paris Diderot University (Paris 7) in comparative literature. Her primary field of research is seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French literature. In her book Les mille et un visages de la virago.…

Robin Thomas

Robin Thomas (Associate Professor of Art History, Pennsylvania State University) specializes in the architecture of Naples, and his interests include early-modern urbanism; the social function of buildings, music and space; and the intellectual…

Jorge Felipe

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Jorge Felipe Gonzalez is a fourth year Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History at MSU. He received his undergraduate degree in History at the University of Havana in 2007. During a couple of years after graduation, he taught different courses at…

Sara J. Grossman

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Sara J. Grossman is a Visiting Fellow at the Center for Humanities and Information at Pennsylvania State University. Her research examines the history of climate knowledge, climate archives, and weather data in the United States from the…

John Grey

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John Grey is an Academic Specialist in the Department of Philosophy at Michigan State University, where he teaches courses on the history of modern philosophy, logic, and metaphysics. He previously taught at Boston University, where he received his…

Meghan K. Roberts

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Meghan Roberts is Assistant Professor of History at Bowdoin College. Her research explores the Enlightenment as a lived experience: what did people think it meant to live in an enlightened age, and how did they put their ideals into practice? What…

Elena Ruíz

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Elena Ruíz is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Global Studies at Michigan State University. She is also core faculty in American Indian and Indigenous Studies and the Center for Gender in a Global Context. She received her Ph.D. in Philosophy…

Daniel Smith

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Daniel Smith is Assistant Professor of Theatre Studies at Michigan State University. His research interests are in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French drama, history of sexuality, and translation studies. After studying French literature at…

Cindy Ermus

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Cindy Ermus is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Lethbridge in Alberta, where ​she teaches courses on early modern Europe, the Age of Revolutions, and the history of disasters. ​Her work looks at catastrophe and crisis management in…

Sharonah Fredrick

Dr. Sharonah Fredrick is Clinical Assistant Professor in the SUNY Buffalo (UB) Department of Romance Languages and Literatures. she is also Copy Editor for the Journal of Early Modern Cultural Studiesfrom UPenn.Prior to that, shetaught Latin American…

Tracy Rutler

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Tracy Rutler teaches French and Women’s Studies at Pennsylvania State University where she specializes in early modern French and Francophone literature. Her research focuses on the intersection of psychoanalytic theory, political philosophy, and…