Eve Tavor Bannet is George Lynn Cross Professor Emeritus, University of Oklahoma and Editor of Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture. Her monographs include Empire of Letters: Letter Manuals and Transatlantic Correspondence 1688-1820 (Cambridge, 2005), Transatlantic Stories and the History of Reading, 1720-1820 (Cambridge, 2011), and Eighteenth-Century Manners of Reading: Print Culture and Popular Instruction in the Anglophone Atlantic World (Cambridge, 2017). She is editor of British and American Letter Manuals 1680-1810 (Pickering & Chatto, 2008), Emma Corbett (Broadview, 2011) and with Susan Manning, Transatlantic Literary Studies (Cambridge, 2012).