Bio

Kelly Plante’s (PhD, Wayne State University, 2023) dissertation/first book project (tentatively titled Death Writing: Consolidating Power in the Atlantic World, 1731–1922) received the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Women’s Caucus Émily du Châtelet prize and the Bibliographical Society of America’s William L. Mitchell Prize for scholarship on eighteenth-century periodicals. Her writing is published or forthcoming in Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Lumen, The Eighteenth-Century: Theory and Interpretation, Twenty First-Century Digital Editing & Publishing (Scottish Universities Press), Eighteenth-Century Fiction, The Eighteenth-Century Common, and Creative Nonfiction Magazine. She is the managing editor for Aphra Behn Online: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640–1830.