Contributors
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John Brannigan, senior lecturer in English at University College, Dublin, has published widely on modern Irish literature, postwar English writing, and contemporary literary theories. His books include Orwell to the Present: Literature in England, 1945-2000 (Palgrave, 2003) and a monograph on Pat Barker forthcoming in 2006 from Manchester University Press.
Rachel Blau DuPlessis, professor of English at Temple University, is a poet and essayist as well as a feminist critic and scholar with a special interest in modern and contemporary poetry. Her most recent critical book is Genders, Races, and Religious Cultures in Modern American Poetry, 1908-1934 (Cambridge, 2001). Blue Studios: Poetry and Its Cultural Work, a collection of her essays, is forthcoming from the University of Alabama Press in 2006, as is a reprint of her classic work The Pink Guitar. Her most recent poetry volumes are Drafts 1-38, Toll (Wesleyan, 2001) and Drafts: Drafts 39-57; Pledge, with Draft; Unnumbered, Précis (Salt, 2004). An interview with DuPlessis, conducted by Jeanne Heuving, appeared in the Fall 2004 issue of Contemporary Literature.
Christopher C. Gregory-Guider is an associate tutor in the department of English at the University of Sussex. He has published articles on W. G. Sebald's use of photography and William Least Heat-Moon's psychogeographic cartography. He is at work on a study of the peripatetic as a strategy of memorialization in Sebald's works.
Richard House is assistant professor of English at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Terre Haute, Indiana. He has published articles on encyclopedic narrative and information theory and on engineering communication. He is currently working on a book-length manuscript on encyclopedic narrative and scientific theories of information.
Laura Di Prete, who received her doctorate in English from the University of South Carolina in 2003, has most recently been teaching business English in Rome. Her research interests include trauma theory, cultural theory, contemporary American fiction, and Southern literature. She is at work on a study of the relationship between the representation of the body and the notion of metamorphosis in literature. Routledge is publishing her dissertation, Foreign Bodies: Trauma, Corporeality, and Textuality in Contemporary American Culture (2005).
Jonna Mackin, visiting assistant professor of English at Dartmouth College, has published articles on T. S. Eliot and music hall song, Charlie Chaplin and Leopold Bloom, and Louise Erdrich and trickster comedy. She is writing a book on comedic performances of ethnic identity that contains chapters on African American, Chinese American, Jewish American, and Native American exemplars of comic necessity.
Deborah Nelson, associate professor of English at the University of Chicago, is the author of Pursuing Privacy in Cold War America (Columbia, 2002) and guest editor for a special issue of Women's Studies Quarterly on the 1950s, forthcoming this winter. In addition, she has essays forthcoming in The Cambridge Companion to Sylvia Plath ("Sylvia Plath and the Cold War") and American Literary History ("The Aesthetics of Heartlessness"). She is at work on a book-length manuscript titled "Tough Broads: Suffering in Style."
Cheryl A. Wall is professor of English at Rutgers University. She is the author of Worrying the Line: Black Women Writers, Lineage, and Literary Tradition (North Carolina, 2005) and Women of the Harlem Renaissance (Indiana, 1995). She is working on a study of the African American essay.
Robert S. Baker is professor of English emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His books include The Dark Historic Page: Social Satire and Historicism in the Novels of Aldous Huxley, 1921-1939 (Wisconsin, 1982) and Complete Essays of Aldous Huxley, in six volumes, co-edited with James Sexton (Ivan R. Dee, 2000-2002). He has published numerous articles and reviews on nineteenth- and twentieth-century English fiction.
