Patrick M. ErbenPatrick M. Erben is Professor of English at the University of West Georgia, USA. He is the author of A Harmony of the Spirits: Translation and the Language of Community in Early Pennsylvania (2013) and co-edited The Francis Daniel PastoriusReader (2019). Erben is a past president of the Society of Early Americanists and currently serves on the editorial board for Early American Literature. Read More Read Less