Contributors
- Contributors
Maria Magdalena Farland is the assistant director of the program in American Cultures at Johns Hopkins University. Her current work focuses on form and gender in American modernism.
John O. Jordan is an associate professor of English at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His published essays include studies of Dickens, Swinburne, Picasso, and Achebe. He has also edited both Victorian Literature and the Victorian Visual Imagination and Literature in the Marketplace: Nineteenth-Century British Publishing and Reading Practices.
Larry Landrum teaches English at Michigan State University. He has published on American popular culture, and he is finishing a book on detective and mystery novels.
Christopher Lane is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. He is the author of The Ruling Passion: British Colonial Allegory and the Paradox of Homosexual Desire and the editor of The Psychoanalysis of Race (forthcoming, Columbia UP). His essays recently have appeared in American Imago, Journal for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society, and American Literature, and he is now completing a manuscript entitled “The Drama of Identification: Psychoanalysis and Victorian Masculinity.”
Charles Martin, whose photograph appears on the cover, is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at Queens College-City University of New York and a photographer. He has written essays on the symbiosis of visual imagery and the text, autobiography, cultural studies, black literature, and Brazil for Genre, Modern Fiction Studies, and the Yale Journal of Criticism, among others. His photography, exhibited internationally and held in corporate and private collections, is at his website: www.brazilnet.net/martinphotos/.
Susie O’Brien is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of British Columbia. She has published essays on Charlotte Brontë’s Shirley, Janet Frame’s The Carpathians, and other works. She is at work on a manuscript on the intersections of ecology and postcolonialism in American, Canadian, Australian, and South African fiction.
Rebecca Saunders, Assistant Professor of English at Illinois State University, is the author of several articles which have appeared in journals such as PMLA and the Journal of the Hellenic Diaspora. She is currently editing and contributing to an interdisciplinary study on the concept of the foreign and is working on a book-length study of lamentation and modernity.
