Volume 44 of Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture acknowledges recent changes in the field of eighteenth-century studies while reaffirming SECC's commitment to interdisciplinary approaches that unite the wide array of fields in history, literature, art history, women's and gender studies, political science, musicology, dance, theater, and religious studies. With contributions from Kelly E. Battles, Adam R. Beach, Samara Anne Cahill, Jonathan Blake Fine, Lucas Hardy, Julie Candler Hayes, Paul Kelleher, Rachael Scarborough King, Heidi E. Kraus, Teresa Michals, Andrew M. Pisano, and Yann Robert, this collection of essays highlights new research in disability studies, debates on slavery and literary history, and analyses of literary genre and form.

Michelle Burnham is a professor of English at Santa Clara University. She is author of Folded Selves: Colonial American Writing in the World System and editor of A Separate Star: Selected Writings of Helen Hunt Jackson. Eve Tavor Bannet is a professor of English at the University of Oklahoma. She is author of Transatlantic Stories and the History of Reading: Migrant Fictions 1720-1810 and co-editor of Transatlantic Literary Studies 1660-1830.