Contributors
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Authors
David N. Cremean is a past president of the Western Literature Association and book review editor for The Cormac McCarthy Journal. Much of his published scholarship has focused on McCarthy and Charles Bowden, but he has also published essays on Clint Eastwood, Ernest Hemingway, and Zane Grey. He is currently editing and writing a Critical Insights volume on McCarthy, and he and D. Seth Horton are laying groundwork for a volume on Bowden.
Robert Gunn is an assistant professor of English at the University of Texas at El Paso, where his research and teaching focus on antebellum American literature and culture. His work has appeared recently in LEGACY and The Wordsworth Circle. He is currently completing a book manuscript titled Ethnology and Empire: Languages, Literature, and the 19th-Century U.S./Mexico Borderlands.
Greg Levonian is an associate professor of English at Marymount College in Palos Verdes, California. He is also the assistant director for the school’s play productions. His work has appeared recently in Teaching American Literature and North Wind: A Journal of George MacDonald Studies. During his upcoming sabbatical, he will be studying L. Frank Baum’s Wizard of Oz series.
Nathaniel Lewis is chair of the English department at St. Michael’s College in Vermont. He is the author of Unsettling the Literary West and co-editor (with William Handley) of True West: Authenticity and the American West. “Morta Las Vegas” is the second co-authored piece by Tatum and Lewis, following on their essay “Tumbling Dice: The Problem of Las Vegas” in A Companion to the Literature and Culture of the American West.
Stephen Tatum is a professor of English and the director of the Environmental Humanities graduate program at the University of Utah. His recent publications include a book, In the Remington Moment, and articles on both forensic aesthetics and postregionalism in the US West.
Artists
Michael P. Berman (b. 1956), a resident of New Mexico, has spent the past thirty years photographing the desert landscapes and border regions of the American Southwest. Berman focuses on local issues that continue to impact the harsh and arid environments of the Southwest such as mining, grazing, and water scarcity/use. He has been awarded numerous fellowships for his photography and paintings, including a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in 2008 for his work on the New Mexico/Mexico border titled Grasslands: The Chihuahuan Desert Project; photos from this collection appear in Charles Bowden’s [End Page 463] Trinity (2009). His photographs have been reviewed in the magazine Art in America and appear in many collections.
Charles Garabedian was born in Detroit in 1923 to parents who had fled the Armenian genocide. After his mother died and his father was injured in an automobile accident, Garabedian and his siblings were placed in an orphanage. By the age of ten, he and his family had moved to California in the midst of the Great Depression. But it wasn’t until he was thirty-two, after service in World War II, that Garabedian’s fifty-year art career began and was quickly followed by graduate work at UCLA and early exhibitions in Los Angeles, earning him both NEA and Guggenheim Fellowships in 1979. In the spring of 2011, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art held the first comprehensive retrospective of his work in twenty-eight years. Art historian and critic Michael Duncan explains in the museum’s catalog, “In his extraordinary works, Garabedian approaches painting as a kind of battlefield of the psyche, manned by cultural tropes and personal memories” (Charles Garabedian: A Retrospective 11). In the fall of 2011, his art was part of the exhibit “California Armenian Pacific Standard Time,” a collaboration initiated by the Getty to tell the story of the birth of the LA art scene. The artist lives in Santa Monica, California, where he continues to paint and show his work at his primary gallery, L.A. Louver, in nearby Venice.
David Taylor’s photographs have been exhibited in many collections and magazines, including the Mexico/Latin America edition of Esquire Magazine. His ongoing examination of the US-Mexico border was supported by a 2008 Fellowship from the John Simon...
