Contributors
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Tina Young Choi is Associate Professor of English and a member of the graduate faculty in Science and Technology Studies at York University in Toronto, where she specializes in nineteenth-century science and literature. Her published work includes articles on the rise of the statistical sciences, Victorian energy physics, and nineteenth-century medical narrative. She has recently completed a book manuscript on Victorian medical and literary conceptions of the social body.
Jay Clayton is William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of English at Vanderbilt University. He is author of Charles Dickens in Cyberspace: The Afterlife of the Nineteenth Century in Postmodern Culture. His recent work has focused on genetics and literature and has appeared in Literature and Medicine, New Literary History, PMLA, and 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century.
Matt Eatough is a doctoral candidate at Vanderbilt University. He is currently completing his dissertation, which uses world-systems theory and affect theory to chart the changing representations of declining colonial classes in the late British Empire. His research interests include globalization, transnationalism, modernism, and Irish and South African literature.
Arthur W. Frank is Professor of Sociology at the University of Calgary. He is the author of At the Will of the Body (1991), The Wounded Storyteller (1995), and The Renewal of Generosity (2004), which won the 2008 medal in bioethics from the Royal Society of Canada. His most recent book is Letting Stories Breathe (2010). His current research projects include studies of how people use information and communications technology for doing health work and studies of moral distress among workers in pediatric intensive care units. He is a contributing editor of Literature & Medicine.
Caroline Hovanec is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of English at Vanderbilt University. Her research focuses on late-Victorian and modernist literature, ecocriticism, and the history of biology. She is currently writing a dissertation on representations of non-human species in the literature, film, and science writing of early-twentieth-century Britain.
Elisa Primavera-Lévy received her Ph.D. in Germanic Studies from the University of Chicago with a dissertation on the prominent position of the language of pain in German culture and the correlations between scientific-physiological and literary-philosophical discourses on pain from 1870 to the end of World War II. She is currently a research fellow at the International Research Center for Cultural Studies [IFK] in Vienna, Austria. [End Page 225]
Matthew Wynn Sivils is Assistant Professor of English at Iowa State University, where he teaches American literature before 1900, as well as courses devoted to environmental literature. He has published several articles on topics in those specializations and has edited three scholarly editions of the writings of Alexander Posey. He co-edits the award winning scholarly journal, Literature in the Early American Republic, and is currently working on a monograph about the origins of American environmental prose.
Jennifer Ellis West recently completed her Ph.D. in Rhetoric, Writing, and Culture in the Department of English at Louisiana State University. She is working on a book manuscript based on her dissertation, Birth Matters: Discourses of Childbirth in Contemporary American Culture, and collecting data for her next project, an investigation of the rhetoric of race and disparity in the public discourse surrounding maternal and child health in the U.S.
Lesley Wheeler is the Henry S. Fox, Jr. Professor of English at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia. Her books include Voicing American Poetry: Sound and Performance from the 1920s to the Present and the collection Heterotopia, winner of the Barrow Street Press Poetry Prize. Wheeler has held grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Fulbright Foundation and is currently researching poetry and community in the twenty-first century.
Karen Weingarten is Assistant Professor of English at Queens College, City University of New York. She is currently working on a book that is tentatively titled, Beyond Life and Choice: Abortion and the Liberal Individual in Modern America, which focuses on the rhetoric of abortion in early-twentieth-century novels and popular culture.
Susan Wells is Professor of English at Temple University. Wells’s interests include rhetoric and composition, critical theory, theories of the public sphere, and...
