ABOUT THE EDITOR: KEVIN L. COPE is the Adams Professor of English Literature at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. The author of Criteria of Certainty, John Locke Revisited, and In and After the Beginning, Cope has edited a panoply of volumes on topics such as the imaginative representations of the sciences, the iconic status of George Washington, miracle lore in the Enlightenment, and the profusion of information during the Enlightenment. Since 1992, he has edited 1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era. Cope is a frequent guest and commentator on radio and television programming concerned with higher education management and policy.
ABOUT THE BOOK REVIEW EDITOR: SAMARA ANNE CAHILL served for ten years as a member of the faculty at Nanyang Technological University of Singapore before joining the faculty at Blinn College in Bryan, Texas. The author of Intelligent Souls? Feminist Orientalism in Eighteenth-Century English Literature (Bucknell, 2019), Cahill also co-edited Citizens of the World: Adapting in the Eighteenth Century (Bucknell, 2015). One of the founders of Southeast Asian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, she edits the online journal, Studies in Religion and the Enlightenment. Cahill has organized numerous international conferences on topics such diverse topics as intercultural adaptation and environmental sustainability during the Enlightenment.