A History of American Puritan Literature

About

Kristina Bross is Professor of English at Purdue University. A past president of the Society of Early Americanists (SEA) Kristina Bross has published articles in numerous scholarly journals and book collections on early American literature archival studies and pedagogy. She is the author of Dry Bones and Indian Sermons: Praying Indians and Colonial America (2004) and Co-editor of Early Native Literacies in New England: A Documentary and Critical Anthology (2008; Hilary Wyss co-editor). Her book Future History: Global Fantasies in American and British Writings (2017) was named as a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title in 2018. Abram Van Engen is Associate Professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis. His articles have been published in multiple scholarly journals as well as Avidly Comment Magazine Common-place The Conversation Humanities Magazine Religion and Politics Salon.com and other venues. In 2012 he won the Walter Muir Whitehill Prize in Early American History. He is the author of Sympathetic Puritans: Calvinist Fellow-Feeling in Early New England (2015) and City on a Hill: A History of American Exceptionalism (2020). His research and writing have won a Benjamin F. Stevens Fellowship from the Massachusetts Historical Society as well as a Faculty Fellowship and a Public Scholars Award from the National Endowment for the Humanities.