Notes on Contributors
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Anissa Belhadjin is a lecturer at the IUFM (University Institute of Teacher Training) of Versailles and a member of the EMA of Cergy-Pontoise University, and also of the CERACC of Paris-Sorbonne-Nouvelle University. Her research focus on the French Noir novel and on the poetics and didactics of genre literature.
Hilary Binda is a full-time Lecturer in the Visual and Critical Studies Department of Tufts University, teaching in and directing Tufts's English Program at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Her essay "Hell and Hypertext Have No Limits: Electronic Editing and the Crises in Criticism" appeared in Early Modern Literary Studies (January, 2000). Her current book project treats iconoclasm and early modern English literature.
Adrienne Foreman is a second-year PhD student at Texas A&M University at College Station. Her Master's thesis from Texas State University is entitled Agonizing Identity: Anxiety and Identity from Gothic to Detective Fiction. Previous conference presentations include papers on embodied feminism in paranormal mysteries and hard-boiled fiction's queer subjectivity. Her dissertation will work with developments of social movements in contemporary hard-boiled fiction and film noir.
Kristen Garrison earned her doctorate in Rhetoric from Texas Woman's University. Currently she teaches composition and rhetoric and directs the Office of Writing Proficiency at Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls, TX. She has published in the areas of both feminist and disability rhetorics, research interests she continues to pursue along with rhetorical theory and writing center pedagogies.
James Golsan is completing his Master's Degree in Creative Writing at Texas Tech University. His current major project is a take on the Hard-Boiled Detective story, and he is extremely honored to have been included in the production of this issue, and to have had his work placed alongside that of esteemed scholars who have contributed to this issue.
Claire Gorrara is Professor of French Studies, School of European Studies, Cardiff University, UK. She has published widely on French crime fiction, most notably The Roman Noir in Post-War French Culture (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003). She is the editor of French Crime Fiction (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2009), a cultural history of the genre, and is preparing a monograph investigating the intersections of French crime fiction and memories of the Second World War.
Michael Kreyling is Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English and American Studies at Vanderbilt and the author of The Novels of Ross Macdonald (University of South Carolina Press, 2005). "Lew Archer, House Whisperer" is a kind of outtake from the book on Macdonald. [End Page 201]
Jeffrey Oxford, Professor of Spanish and Chair of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee, is a specialist in 19th through 21st-century literature and culture of Spain, primarily Naturalism and its influence on Spanish society and letters. Most recently, his research interests have turned toward Spanish detective fiction, and he has published essays on Carme Riera, Andrés Trapiello, and Jorge Martínez Reverte.
Donald Reid is professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is author of books on French coal miners and the sewermen of Paris, and of Germaine Tillion, Lucie Aubrac, and the Politics of Memories of the French Resistance (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007). He is currently completing books on the communist libertarian Daniel Guérin and on the movement of Lip watchmakers in 1973.
Ralph Schoolcraft III is Associate Professor of French at Texas A&M University. In addition to Romain Gary: The Man Who Sold His Shadow (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002), he is completing a book manuscript entitled Methods of the Mask: Faking Race and Gender in Modern French Fiction.
Beverly G. Six is Professor of English at Sul Ross State University in Alpine, Texas. Her areas of interest in nineteenth-and-twentieth-century American Literature include the Literature of Dissent and Native American Literature; in addition, she teaches Children's Literature and Mystery and Detective fiction. She has published essays on Mourning Dove and ZitkalaSâ (American Women Writers, 1900-1945, Greenwood, 2000) and on Denise Chávez (Contemporary American Women Fiction Writers, Greenwood...
