CRISTOBAL SILVA, Assistant Professor, B.A. University of California, Berkeley (1992), Ph.D New York University (2003). Specializes in colonial and eighteenth-century literature and cultures of the Americas, with a particular emphasis on the relationship between epidemiology and colonial history. He is Associate Editor of The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation.

CURRENT AND FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS

• "'Miraculous Plagues': Epidemiology on the New England Colonial Landscape," Early American Literature (Forthcoming, 2008)
• "The Laws of Dispossession" (Review Essay) Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation (Forthcoming 2008)
• Teaching the Transatlantic Eighteenth Century, edited with Jennifer Frangos, Cambridge Scholars Press (Forthcoming, 2009)
• "Teaching the Transatlantic," American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 2005. >

WORK IN PROGRESS

• Miraculous Plagues: An Epidemiology of New England Narrative, 1620-1721 (Manuscript)
• "'Soon They Will Fall Ill and Die Like Flies': The Haitian Revolution and Immunological Citizenship" for Early America and The Haitian Revolution, ed. Elizabeth Maddock Dillon and Michael Drexler.

AWARDS

• National Humanities Center Summer Stipend, 2005
• American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Innovative Course Design, 2005
• Shortell-Holzer Fellowship, New York University, 2000