Contributors
- Contributors
Cara Elana Erdheim successfully defended her dissertation, "The Greening of American Naturalism" in June 2010 and received her Ph.D. in English from Fordham University in August 2010. She is Assistant Professor of English at Sacred Heart University.
Kevin J. Hayes, Professor of English at the University of Central Oklahoma, is the editor of the Bedford Cultural Edition of Stephen Crane's Maggie: A Girl of the Streets and author of several books, including Stephen Crane (Northcote House).
Margy Thomas Horton is a doctoral candidate at Baylor University, where she also teaches freshman composition. Her dissertation will examine the relationship between reading and sensory experience in nineteenth-century American literature, particularly the work of Herman Melville.
Eric Carl Link is Professor of American literature and Chair of the Department of English at the University of Memphis. He is the author of several books, including The Vast and Terrible Drama: American Literary Naturalism in the Late Nineteenth Century, Understanding Philip K. Dick, and Neutral Ground: New Traditionalism and the American Romance Controversy (co-authored with G. R. Thompson). He is also the founder and editor of the journal ALN: The American Literary Naturalism Newsletter and the co-editor (along with Donald Pizer) of the Norton Critical Edition of The Red Badge of Courage, 4th edition.
Roark Mulligan is Associate Professor of English at Christopher Newport University in Newport News, Virginia, where he teaches literature and writing. He has authored essays on Theodore Dreiser that have appeared in American Literary Realism, Dreiser Studies, and Studies in American Naturalism. In 2010, his edition of The Financier was published by the University of Illinois Press. He now serves as secretary/treasurer of the International Theodore Dreiser Society. [End Page 208]
Donald Pizer, Pierce Butler Professor of English Emeritus at Tulane University, has published widely on late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American literature.
Gina M. Rossetti is Associate Professor of English and Chair of the Department of English and Foreign Languages at St. Xavier University in Chicago. Her research and pedagogical interests lie in American literary naturalism, and in particular Jack London's work. She is also the author of Imagining the Primitive in Naturalist and Modernist Literature.
Gary Scharnhorst is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of New Mexico, editor of American Literary Realism, and editor in alternating years of the research annual American Literary Scholarship.
Michael Shaw teaches literature at Sacred Heart and Fairfield Universities. He is currently working on a dissertation at Fordham University that examines the connections between clothing and masculinity in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American literature.
Andrew Vogel completed his Ph.D. at Ohio State University in 2007. He is currently Assistant Professor of American Modernism at Kutztown State University of Pennsylvania. He has published on Gertrude Stein's geographic imagination and has an article forthcoming in the Walt Whitman Quarterly Review on Whitman's place in the Columbian Exposition celebrations. He is currently completing work on a monograph examining the relationship between road travel narratives and shifts in public road planning and policy at the turn of the twentieth century. [End Page 209]
