Contributors
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Christophe Den Tandt teaches literatures in English and cultural theory at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ulb). He is the author of The Urban Sublime in American Literary Naturalism and of articles on U.S. literature, popular culture, and postmodernist theory. His current research focuses on the theoretical groundings of contemporary realism (literature, film, television). Like his previous essays on literary naturalism, this project has led him repeatedly to examine the status of science fiction with regard to various forms of realist or naturalist discourse.
Bill Hardwig is Assistant Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the English Department at the University of Tennessee. His research and teaching interests focus on Southern, African American, and Appalachian literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. His book Upon Provincialism: Southern Literature and National Periodical Culture, 1870–1900 tracks how the nation’s leading interdisciplinary periodicals, especially the Atlantic Monthly, Harper’s, and The Century, translated and broadcast the predominant narratives about the post-war and post-reconstruction South to the nation. He has also edited a scholarly edition of a collection of stories about the Appalachian Mountains, In the Tennessee Mountains, written by Mary Noailles Murfree and first published in 1884.
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 aln: The American Literary Naturalism Newsletter and the coeditor (with Donald Pizer) of the Norton Critical Edition of The Red Badge of Courage, 4th edition. Aside from these studies, he has published numerous essays on figures such as Stephen Crane, Frank Norris, Mark Twain, and others, as well as articles on a variety of topics related to nineteenth-century aesthetic theory. He is currently co-editing (with Gerry Canavan) the forthcoming Cambridge Companion to American Science Fiction. [End Page 121]
Michael J. Martin is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Division of Multidisciplinary Programs at Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Texas. He has previously published his work in such journals as Shofar, Peer English, Children’s Literature Quarterly, and American Book Review. His research interests lie in the study of twentieth-century American literature, and his current research and writing focuses on a developed study of both “rediscovering” the lost and “rereading” the canonical American Road literature.
Kevin Modestino is a graduate student in the English Department at Duke University. He is currently working on a dissertation about history and historical writing in nineteenth-century America focused on the relationship between historical aesthetics, imperialism, and antebellum responses to hemispheric slave emancipation. The idea for his essay developed out of a self-designed course entitled “The Science of Fiction: From Sister Carrie to Battlestar Galactica.”
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, he published the Dreiser Edition of The Financier, and he is now editing The Titan.
Rachael L. Nichols is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Skidmore College. Her research focuses on how science and literature intersect in nineteenth-century American literature and culture. Her current book project, Animal Entanglements: Evolving Forms in U.S. Literature and Culture, 1870–1920, explores how literary naturalists such as Jack London and Frank Norris drew from evolutionary theory to re-imagine human subjectivity as entwined with the animal.
Mary E. Papke is Professor of English at the University of Tennessee. She is the author of Verging of the Abyss: The Social Fiction of Kate Chopin and Edith Wharton and Susan Glaspell: A Research and Production Sourcebook, and the editor of Twisted from the Ordinary: Essays on American Literary Naturalism. In addition, she has published essays on feminist theory, postmodern women writers, the unpublished drama of Evelyn Scott, the political theatre of Sean O’Casey...
