C. Second Vice President

Misty G. Anderson is the James R. Cox Professor and Head of English at the University of Tennessee, where she also holds courtesy appointments in the Theatre and Religious Studies departments. Anderson is the author of Imagining Methodism in Eighteenth-Century Britain: Enthusiasm, Belief, and the Borders of the Self (Johns Hopkins, 2012) and Female Playwrights and Eighteenth-Century Comedy: Negotiating Marriage on the London Stage (Palgrave, 2002), and is co-editor of the Routledge Anthology of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Drama and Theatre, vols. 1 and 2 (2017 and 2019), with Daniel O’Quinn and Kristina Straub. She has held fellowships at the Beinecke Library, the Lewis Walpole Library, and the Newberry Library. She edited Restoration for 13 years and has published in or reviewed for numerous journals, including ECS, ECF, ECTI, SECC, ECL, RECTR, and Modern Philology. She is one of the founders of the R/18 Collective, a dramaturg for the Clarence Brown and Red Bull Theatres, and a producer of a number of staged readings of Restoration and eighteenth-century plays. She has served ASECS as a past Board member (2016-20), member of the Executive Director search (2020-21), chair of the Women’s Caucus (2015-17), co-chair of the Masquerade Ball Committee (2013-14 and 2017-18), and co-chair of the first Women’s Caucus fundraising committee (2002), as well as in posts as chair of the MLA Restoration and 18thC, later 18thC, and Religion Literature Executive Committees and on the SEASECS board. She believes that ASECS’s future depends on recommitting to our diversity as a community of interdisciplinary scholars; to fostering new work on the global eighteenth-century; to supporting our non-tenure-track colleagues in better and new ways, and to connecting to larger public audiences and artists to communicate the value of our work.

Sean D. Moore is Professor of English and Former Dean of the University of New Hampshire (UNH) Honors College. His ASECS service includes being Editor of Eighteenth-Century Studies (2017-2021), Member of the Travelling Jam Pot Committee (2014-2015), Chair of the Irish Studies Caucus (2006-2012), and his membership in the Race and Empire Caucus. He is most recently author of Slavery and the Making of Early American Libraries: British Literature, Political Thought, and the Transatlantic Book Trade, 1731-1814 (Oxford UP, 2019), which was funded by NEH, AAS/NEH, Newport Mansions, MHS, and Library Company of Philadelphia fellowships. His first book, Swift, the Book, and the Irish Financial Revolution: Satire and Sovereignty in Colonial Ireland (Johns Hopkins UP, 2010), which was funded by a Fulbright Scholarship to Ireland as a Duke Ph.D. candidate, won the Murphy Prize for Distinguished Book from the American Conference for Irish Studies. He is also a PMLA and Early American Literature author and book historian. He has recently won fellowships from the U.K. Willison Charitable Trust (2023), Maynooth University Library (Ireland, 2022), and University of Aberdeen Library (Scotland, 2022) for a third monograph project: “The British Secret Service and the Scottish and Irish Book Trades, 1660-1829: An Inquiry into the History of Intelligence.”

​One of Professor Moore’s enhancements to the Editorship of Eighteenth-Century Studies was to do data analysis of women’s contributions to the journal such as finding in 2020 that 72 submissions were from women and 58 from men, with women writing 15 of the 24 articles (60%) printed in the journal that year. Indeed, in 2018 Moore did a study of JSTOR downloads and found, strikingly, that 5 of the 6 top downloaded articles from the journal were by women and that most of them were from the 1996 number of the journal or before, indicating that the pioneering work done by our women authors in the 1980s and 1990s continues to accumulate prestige for the journal. Further, in the introduction to the “Empire” issue (52.1, Fall 2018), he established that postcolonial studies essays were the most downloaded from ProjectMUSE in 2017, contradicting a 2009 PMLA roundtable saying that “postcolonialism is over.” He also found that postcolonialism continues to be a diplomatic language, not just a methodology, to address the interrelated histories of violence, domination, inequality, and injustice associated with imperialism, and that its ethics have consistently been associated with finding peace and social justice in the present. Moore not only increased the number of articles from 3-4 per issue to 7-8 per issue, but also with the help of Book Reviews Editor Jennifer Thorn, raised the number of book reviews from 3-5 to 20 per issue. These accomplishments not only made for more comprehensive issues, but also increasing the royalties bottom-line for ASECS. Accordingly, Professor Sean Moore can read a spreadsheet and has data analysis experiences that will serve him in his capacity as a Board Member and Vice-President.