Kelly Plante, PhD

I am an Ann Arbor-based teacher, editor, and writer. I apply my award-winning research on the history and theory of editing, as well as my 15-plus-year editorial background, to my teaching of writing. I am the editor-in-chief for the peer-reviewed journal Aphra Behn Online (ABO): Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640–1830, published by the University of South Florida Libraries.

“‘A character immortalized’: John Nichols’s ‘Death Writing’ on Ignatius Sancho (1780–Present).” The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 65, no. 3 (Fall 2024)

“‘The example and ornament in this transplanted Christian Colony’: The ‘Death Writing’ of St Catherine Tekakwitha and/in P.F. X. de Charlevoix’s Histoire et description générale de la Nouvelle-France (1744).” Lumen: Selected Proceedings from the Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies 42, 2023 (Fall 2024)

“‘Equipt herself in the habit of a man’: Exposing Empire in the Female Spectator (1744–1746).” Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal 19, no. 1: Queer and Trans Approaches to the Study of Early Modern Women and Gender (Fall 2024)

• Bibliographical Society of America William L. Mitchell Prize for dissertation, Death Writing: Gender and Necropolitics in the Atlantic World (1660–1840) (2024)
• American Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies Women’s Caucus Émilie Du Châtelet Award for first book project, Death Writing: Consolidating Power in the Atlantic World (1660–1840) (2024)
• Kelly Plante and Karenza Sutton-Bennett. American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Women’s Caucus Editing and Translation Prize for the Lady’s Museum Project (2023)
• American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Graduate Student Research Essay Prize for “‘Equipt Herself in the Habit of a Man’: Exposing Empire in the Female Spectator (1744–46)” (2021)