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James Berkey received his PhD in English from Indiana University in 2010. He is currently a Lecturing Fellow in the Thompson Writing Program at Duke University. This essay stems from his current book project, titled “Imperial Quotidians: Writing U.S. Empire during the Spanish-American and Philippine–American Wars.”

Amanda Carrod is currently in the final year of her PhD in literature at Keele University, Staffordshire, where she is researching British Vogue magazine under the editorship of Dorothy Todd between 1922 and 1926. To date she has given papers at the International Virginia Woolf Conference in 2011 and at the Women in Magazines Conference this year.

Eurie Dahn is an assistant professor in the Department of English at the College of Saint Rose. Her current book project examines the discourse of manners in periodicals, modernist novels, and etiquette manuals during the Jim Crow period.

Emily Hage is an assistant professor of art history at St. Joseph’s University, where she teaches courses on modern and contemporary art. She specializes in artists’ experimentations with print media, specifically magazines, as well as issues of gender, national, and racial identity. Hage has published and presented scholarly papers on Dada art journals from the early twentieth century. Her scholarship also includes analysis of mail art zines from 1970s California and artists’ involvement with mainstream magazines, specifically Romare Bearden’s cover art for Fortune and Time in the late 1960s. [End Page 214]

Catherine Keyser is an associate professor in the English Department at the University of South Carolina. Her book Playing Smart: New York Women Writers and Modern Magazine Culture (2010) addresses middlebrow magazine humor of the 1920s and 1930s. She is now working on a book project on U.S. literary responses to modern transformations in food technology and culture.

Michael Rozendal is an assistant professor of rhetoric and language at the University of San Francisco and director of their Dual Degree in Teacher Preparation Program. His research on the culture of the 1930s has focused on the print communities bridging the formally radical and politically radical, recasting both upstart magazines and canonical figures like William Carlos Williams and Langston Hughes. Overall, he sees the dynamic archive of publication questioning and expanding many of the received narratives of the period. He has had publications in Modernist Magazines: A Critical and Cultural History Volume Two: North America, 1880–1960 (2012), The William Carlos Williams Review; Revues Modernistes, Revues Engagées 1900 –1939 (2011); and Landscapes of Postmodernity: Concepts and Paradigms of Critical Theory (2010). [End Page 215]

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