Records of the Salem Witch-Hunt

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and Change (2006, edited with Mats Ryden and Erik Smitterberg) and articles ´
included in collected volumes and international journals (e.g., Journal of Historical
Pragmatics, Journal of English Linguistics, American Speech). She has participated in
the compilation of historical corpora, among them the Helsinki Corpus of English
Texts, A Corpus of Nineteenth-Century English, and, recently, A Corpus of English
Dialogues 1560–1760.
Matti Peikola is Adjunct Professor of Philology in the Department of English,
University of Turku, Finland. He specializes in manuscript and textual studies
with a focus on Late Middle English writing, especially texts associated with
the Wycliffite (Lollard) movement. He has recently published in The Journal of
the Early Book Society and The Journal of Historical Pragmatics and is one of the
contributors to Medieval Texts in Context (2008).
Benjamin C. Ray is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia and the Director of the Salem Witch Trials Documentary Archive
of primary and secondary source materials on the Salem episode. He is the author
of books and articles on the religions of sub-Saharan Africa, as well as of several
articles on the subject of the Salem witch trials. His most recent work is A Magic
Still Dwells: Comparative Religion in the Postmodern Age (2000), edited together
with Kimberley C. Patton.
Matti Rissanen is Emeritus Professor of English Philology at the University of
Helsinki and an active researcher and team leader at the Centre of Excellence
for the Study of Variation, Contacts and Change in English at the same university. His scholarly publications include close to two hundred items: monographs,
edited volumes, articles, and reviews. He is Honorary Doctor at Uppsala University and Honorary Member of many international scholarly societies.
Marilynne K. Roach, an independent scholar in Watertown, Massachusetts,
found that the twenty-seven years spent researching her book The Salem Witch
Trials: A Day-by-Day Chronicle of a Community Under Siege (2002) has by no
means exhausted the subject. As a freelance writer she has contributed articles to
historical and genealogical journals, and as a graduate of Massachusetts College
of Art, she has illustrated several works of her own and other authors with an
emphasis on history.
Richard B. Trask is Town Archivist for Danvers, Massachusetts (old Salem
Village). His projects have included restoring his seventeenth-century home;
excavating the 1681 Reverend Samuel Parris parsonage; serving as curator of
the 1678 Rebecca Nurse Homestead; writing The Devil Hath Been Raised (1992);
serving as historian to various films, including “Three Sovereigns for Sarah”; and
co-designing the 1992 Salem Village Witchcraft Victims’ Memorial. Trask has
taught history and lectured extensively. He is a descendant of several witchcraft
victims. An authority on studying historical photography, Trask has consulted
for CBS News, the President Kennedy Assassination Records Review Board, and
the National Archives. He has written eight books.

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