Kelly Plante received her PhD in August 2023 from Wayne State University in Detroit. Her dissertation, Death Writing: Gender and Necropolitics in the Atlantic World (1660–1830), received the 2024 Bibliographical Society of America’s William L. Mitchell Prize for bibliographical scholarship on eighteenth-century periodicals. Her forthcoming article, “‘Equipt herself in the habit of a man’: Exposing Empire in the Female Spectator,” won the 2021 ASECS Graduate Student Research Essay Prize, and the Lady’s Museum Project, which she co-edits with Karenza Sutton-Bennett, won the 2023 ASECS Women’s Caucus Editing and Translation Prize and the 2021 CSECS D. W. Smith Research Fellowship. Her writing is published or forthcoming in The Eighteenth-Century: Theory and Interpretation, 21st-Century Digital Editing & Publishing (Scottish Universities Press), Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Aphra Behn Online (ABO), The Eighteenth-Century Common, Creative Nonfiction Magazine and, in her previous life, military vehicle manuals and Detroit newspapers. She teaches literature and creative writing at Washtenaw Community College and Texas Woman’s University and serves as associate reader for Michigan Quarterly Review and managing editor for ABO.
