Contributors
- Contributors
Renate von Bardeleben, Professor of American Studies at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, is the author or editor of twelve books. Her recent volumes include an unabridged complete critical edition of Theodore Dreiser's A Traveler at Forty, a collection of her articles on Dreiser, Engaging Dreiser (edited by K. H. Schmidt), and in 2012, a coedited collection of sixteen new essays on American Multiculturalism and Ethnic Survival.
Donna M. Campbell is Associate Professor of English at Washington State University and is the author of Resisting Regionalism: Gender and Naturalism in American Fiction, 1885-1915 (1997). Her essays on Jack London have appeared in Literature and Belief, Jack London: One Hundred Years a Writer, and Jack London: Critical Insights. Other recent and forthcoming work includes essays on Kate Chopin in The Cambridge Companion to Kate Chopin, on Edith Wharton in Edith Wharton in Context, on American naturalism in the Cambridge History of the American Novel, and on women and naturalism in the Oxford Handbook of American Literary Naturalism. Her current project is a book manuscript called Bitter Tastes: Naturalism, Early Film, and American Women Writers.
Richard Lehan is Professor of English Emeritus at UCLA, where he has taught since 1962. He is the author of many books and critical essays, most recently The City in Literature (1998), Realism and Naturalism: The Novel in an Age of Transition (2005), and Literary Modernism: The Extended Vision and the Realms of the Text (2009). He has recently completed another book, Quest West: The Lost Vision, a study of the ideological elements and cultural values that accompanied the frontier movement in America as it moved west.
Donald Pizer, Pierce Butler Professor of English Emeritus at Tulane University, has published widely on late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American literature. [End Page 258]
Yair Solan is a Ph.D. student in English at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He specializes in nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature and film studies, focusing on literary realism, naturalism, and modernism, visuality and spectatorship, silent film, and pre-cinematic visual media.
Wayne W. Westbrook is a retired professor of business at Manchester Community College (CT) as well as Senior Lecturer in American Literature at the University of Connecticut, West Hartford. He has contributed articles to American Literary Realism, Jack London Newsletter, and The Southern Literary Journal, in addition to essays in other literary journals on Edith Wharton, Henry James, Sherwood Anderson, William Faulkner, Louis Auchincloss, and Joseph Conrad. He also wrote Wall Street in the American Novel (1980) and is an infrequent contributor to Barron's.
Adam H. Wood is Associate Professor of English at Salisbury University, where he teaches courses on American realism and naturalism, the American novel, and violence in literature. His research and publications investigate the ethical and ideological uses of violence in American literary naturalism. He is currently finishing his book manuscript, tentatively titled Violating Realism: Violence and Verisimilitude in the American Novel, 1895-1925. [End Page 259]
