Bio

Kelly J. Plante, Ph.D. (Wayne State University, Detroit) is an award-winning scholar, teacher, and editor specializing in long-eighteenth-century transatlantic literature and digital/public humanities. She currently serves as book review editor for ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts (1640–1830), co-Editor for the Lady’s Museum Project and co-chair for the American Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies Digital Humanities Caucus with Karenza Sutton-Bennett, and as associate reader for the Michigan Quarterly Review. She has served as managing editor for Criticism: A Quarterly for Literature and the Arts (2021–23), project manager for the Warrior Women Project and co-general editor for The Poetry of Gertrude More: Piety and Politics in a Benedictine Convent (2020–21). Her essays can be found in Creative Nonfiction Magazine, Eighteenth-Century Fiction, ABO, The Eighteenth-Century Common, and 21st-Century Digital Editing & Publishing (Scottish Universities Press, 2024).