Contributors
- Contributors
Maria Aristodemou teaches legal theory at Birkbeck College, University of London and is the author of Law and Literature: Journeys from Here to Eternity (2000).
Anne Balay is Assistant Professor of English at Indiana University Northwest, where she teaches children’s literature, gender studies, and modern American fiction. She has written articles on queer fantasy fiction for young adults and on Gene Stratton-Porter and has published an article on Kathleen Norris in American Literary History.
Joanne Feit Diehl is Professor of English at the University of California, Davis. Her books include Dickinson and the Romantic Imagination (1981), Women Poets and the American Sublime (1990), and Elizabeth Bishop and Marianne Moore: The Psychodynamics of Creativity (1993). She is currently working on a project on relational psychoanalysis and poetic theory.
Lillian Doherty, Professor of Classics at the University of Maryland, College Park, is the author of Siren Songs: Gender, Audiences, and Narrators in the Odyssey (1995) and Gender and the Interpretation of Classical Myth (2001).
Michael J. Drexler is Assistant Professor of English at Bucknell University. He is the editor of Leonora Sansay’s Secret History; or, The Horrors of St. Domingo and Laura (2007) and, with Ed White, an essay collection entitled Beyond Douglass: New Perspectives in Early African-American Literature (2008). He and White are currently completing a book entitled The Traumatic Colonel: The “Burr” of American Literature.
Andrew Vogel Ettin is Professor of English at Wake Forest University and an ordained rabbi who also teaches Judaism in the university’s Divinity School. His publications include Betrayals of the Body Politic: The Literary Commitments of Nadine Gordimer (1993) and Speaking Silences: Stillness and Voice in Jewish Tradition and Modern Thought (1994).
David Goldstein, a former faculty member at the University of Tulsa, is Professor of English and Creative Writing at York University. He was a friend of Lexi Rudnitsky from the mid 1990s until her death. [End Page 409]
Laura Heffernan is a postdoctoral lecturer in English at the University of Pennsylvania. She is currently at work on a book manuscript that examines modernist literary criticism and theories of the aesthetic from 1909 to 1929.
Merri Lisa Johnson is Director of the Center for Women’s and Gender Studies and Assistant Professor of English at the University of South Carolina Upstate. She has published articles on representations of romance in Six Feet Under and The L Word and is the editor of a third-wave feminist anthology on sexual politics called Jane Sexes It Up: True Confessions of Feminist Desire (2002).
Kathleen A. Miller is a doctoral candidate at the University of Delaware. Her major literary interests include nineteenth-century British literature, women’s writing, and the gothic. She is the author of “Sarah Waters’s Fingersmith: Leaving Women’s Fingerprints on Victorian Pornography” (Nineteenth Century Gender Studies, 2008). Her forthcoming publications focus on L. M. Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables and children’s biographies of Florence Nightingale.
Emily Janda Monteiro is a doctoral candidate at Texas A&M University. She is writing her dissertation on the formation of identity and impacts of empire, nationalism, and gender in twentieth-century British, Irish, and Indian women’s periodicals.
Joe Parker is Associate Professor of East Asian Thought at Pitzer College and Adjunct Professor at Claremont Graduate University. He teaches international and intercultural studies, gender and feminist studies, cultural studies, and Asian Studies. He has published articles in Asian Studies journals and in such edited volumes as Japanese Women Writers: A Bio-Critical Source Book, Theorizing Scriptures: New Critical Orientations to a Cultural Phenomenon, and Writing Against the Curriculum: Antidisciplinarity in the Writing and Cultural Studies Classroom; and he is the coeditor for a forthcoming collection, Interdisciplinarity and Social Justice: Revisioning Academic Accountability (State University of New York Press).
Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz is the Margaret Bundy Scott Professor of Comparative Literature at Hamilton College. Recent publications include Greek Tragedy (2008), Among Women: From the Homosocial to the Homoerotic in the Ancient World (2002), and articles on Greek art and literature such as “Women’s Bonds, Women’s Pots: Adornment Scenes in Attic Vase Painting” (forthcoming with Sue Blundell), “Tragedy and [End Page 410] Terrorism” (2005), and “Politics of Inclusion...
