Dr. Kelly Plante’s research and teaching builds on over 15 years’ experience writing and editing in the fields of journalism, technical/professional writing, and peer-reviewed academic journals in the Detroit/Ann Arbor area. Her dissertation/first book project, “Death Writing: Consolidating Power in the Atlantic World, 1731–1922,” focuses on the history of the obituary and other death-centric forms and received the Bibliographical Society of America’s William L. Mitchell Prize for scholarship on eighteenth-century periodicals and the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) Émily du Châtelet prize for early-career scholars. She co-founded a digital humanities project, The Lady’s Museum Project, which won the Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (CSECS) D. W. Smith Research Prize and the ASECS Editing and Translation Award. Her essay, “‘Equipt herself in the habit of a man’: Exposing Empire in the Female Spectator,” won the ASECS Graduate Student Research Essay Prize and was published last fall in Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal. Her writing is published or forthcoming in Eighteenth-Century Studies, The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, Twenty First-Century Digital Editing & Publishing (Scottish Universities Press), Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Lumen, The Eighteenth-Century Common, the Bear River Review and Creative Nonfiction Magazine. Plante has taught writing, editing, and literature at University of Michigan-Dearborn, Wayne State University, Texas Woman’s University, and Washtenaw Community College, and has guest-taught as an invited speaker in classrooms at Brandeis University and the University of Ottawa. She is an associate reader for the Michigan Quarterly Review and the editor-in-chief for Aphra Behn Online: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640–1830 (University of South Florida Libraries).