The Contributors
- The Contributors
Gale Temple is Associate Professor of English at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, where he specializes in early American literature and culture. His current research focuses on early American literary and cultural portrayals of addiction.
Rynetta Davis is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Kentucky. She is currently completing a book manuscript entitled Refashioning Friendship: Nineteenth-Century Black Women’s Social Alliances in American Literary History, 1833–1894.
Robert Henn is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. His dissertation examines how representations of intellectual and academic labor from the 1930s–1960s shaped American postmodernism. His work has appeared in The Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association.
Carla Billitteri is Associate Professor of English at the University of Maine, where she teaches poetry, poetics, and critical theory. She is the author of Language and Renewal of Society in Walt Whitman, Laura (Riding) Jackson, and Charles Olson.
Sarah Eden Schiff is a doctoral candidate at Emory University. Her dissertation considers how minority American literature incorporates mythic narratives to advance and complicate concepts of race, gender, nation, and religion.
Mark Cantrell is currently a lecturer in the English Department at the University of Miami. He has work forthcoming in Genre and a book collecting essays on teaching adaptations of American literature. His current book project is entitled Experimental Poetry and the Enactment of Thinking. [End Page 163]
