Joseph Rezek is Assistant Professor of English at Boston University, where he specializes in British and American literature of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, early black Atlantic print culture, and the history of the book. He has published essays in journals such as ELH, ALH, Early American Studies, and J19, as well as the recent book, London and the Making of Provincial Literature: Aesthetics and the Transatlantic Book Trade, 1800-1850 (University of Pennsylvania Press). His latest publication is a contribution to a forum in Early American Literature about Henry Louis Gates, Jr., entitled, “Print, Writing, and the Difference Media Make: Revisiting The Signifying Monkey After Book History.” He is currently an NEH Post-doctoral fellow at the Library Company of Philadelphia, where he is researching his second book project, “Early Black Writing and the Politics of Print.” That project tells a new story about the emergence of the racialized public sphere through a media-specific account of the early black print archive, from Phillis Wheatley to Mary Prince. Prof. Rezek is also Co-Chair of the American Literature and Culture Seminar at the Mahindra Center at Harvard University and Associate Editor of Studies in Romanticism, which has been published at Boston University since 1961.