The Contributors
- The Contributors
Mitchell Breitwieser is a member of the Berkeley English department. He is author of Cotton Mather and Benjamin Franklin: The Price of Representative Personality, American Puritanism and the Defense of Mourning, and National Melancoly. His current project is tentatively entitled "The Life and Times of Harry Lime."
Cody Marrs is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Georgia. He is currently completing a book manuscript, Wayward Poets: Whitman, Melville, Douglass, and the Politics of Time, parts of which have appeared in American Literature and are forthcoming in African American Review.
Elizabeth Festa received her Ph.D. in English from Vanderbilt University. She is currently a faculty member in the Program for Communication Excellence at Rice University and is at work on a book entitled At Home in the Museum: Private Archives and American Literature in the Era of the Professional Museum.
Kevin Arnold is a Ph.D. candidate in English at SUNY-Buffalo. He is currently completing his dissertation, "The Masculine Fantasy and Postwar American Literature," under the direction of Tim Dean.
Thomas Heise teaches American literature, creative writing, and critical theory at McGill University in Montreal. He is author of Horror Vacui: Poems and Urban Underworlds, and his essays have appeared or are forthcoming in Twentieth-Century Literature, Modern Fiction Studies, African American Review, and The Journal of Popular Culture.
Megan Williams teaches in the Department of Professional Communication at Philadelphia University. She is author of Through the Negative, and her work has appeared in The Philadelphia Inquirer, Film Quarterly, Quarterly Review of Film and Literature, Texas Studies in Language and Literure and elsewhere. [End Page 187]
