Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
Ondrea E. Ackerman (oeackerman@gmail.com) is an assistant professor of English as Oklahoma State University. Her research interests include the poetry of Robert Grenier, Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams. Her dissertation, Getting Lost: Disorientation in Twentieth-Century Literature, examines how “getting lost” becomes an intentional methodology of a range of modernist authors.
Timothy C. Baker (t.c.baker@abdn.ac.uk) is lecturer in Scottish literature at the University of Aberdeen. His book George Mackay Brown and the Philosophy of Community appeared in 2009, and he has recently published articles in Mosaic, Poetics Today, Utopian Studies, and Scottish Literary Review. He is currently working on a book-length study of contemporary Scottish Gothic and the work of mourning.
Sydney Bufkin (sbufkin@utexas.edu) is a PhD candidate at the University of Texas at Austin. Her dissertation, “Reviewing the Purpose Novel: Reception, Social Reform, and the Limits of of Persuasion in Turn-of-the-Century American Fiction,” examines the reception of several turn-of-the-century purpose novels and argues for the importance of this under-studied category to our understanding of American literary history. She has an essay on Pauline Hopkins, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and W.E.B. Du Bois forthcoming in the Autumn 2013 issue of Arizona Quarterly.
Isidore Diala (isidorediala@yahoo.com) is professor of African literature at Imo State University Owerri, Nigeria. He was recently a Humboldt Research Fellow and Visiting Professor at the University of Muenster in Germany. Diala is currently working on a monograph on the Nigerian playwright, Esiaba Irobi.
Shannon Finck (sfinck1@gsu.edu) is a PhD candidate at Georgia State University, focusing on twentieth and twenty-first century American prose writing. Her dissertation examines women’s experimental autobiography across the twentieth century alongside radical theoretical accounts of subjectivity in order to assert the political and ethical value of continued engagement with ontological thinking after postmodernism. Shannon also holds an MFA in poetry and creative nonfiction from Georgia College, and her creative work has appeared in FUGUE, Moonshot, and The Florida Review. She has presented papers at a number of national conferences including MLA, ACLA, and SAMLA. [End Page 187]
F. Meltem Gürle (m_gurle@yahoo.com) holds degrees in both philosophy and literature and is an assistant professor at Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, in the School of Foreign Languages. She is a comparatist whose focus is on the genre of the “world text” and on non-western modernisms, with a particular interest in the relationship of post-1950 twentieth-century Turkish literature to the modernist masterpieces of the West. Her research areas also include nineteenth century German philosophy, theories of the novel, and the work of James Joyce. She spent the 2010–2011 academic year at UC Berkeley as a visiting scholar, and is presently working on her book, “Beyond Property and Propriety: the Turkish Bildungsroman and its Dynamics,” in which she also considers the recent Islamist influence on the development of the genre.
Corinna K. Lee (corinna.lee@marquette.edu) is an assistant professor of English at Marquette University. Her research interests include modern American fiction, literary history, and institutional discourses of canon revision. She is working on a book provisionally titled Other Americas: The Literary Recovery of Depression-Era Literature, which explores the reinterpretation and cultural and political appropriation of 1930s authors in the post-Civil Rights era.
Matthew Levay (mlevay@fas.harvard.edu) is a Head Preceptor in the College Writing Program at Harvard University. He is currently completing a book manuscript on the representation of the criminal in modernist fiction from the late nineteenth century to the 1950s, and he has recently begun a new project on British modernism and seriality.
Michelle Martin (mi.martin@temple.edu) is an English doctoral candidate at Temple University. She is currently working on her dissertation, “On the Question of the Human: A General Economy of Contemporary Tastes,” which examines contemporary American literature from a Bataillean perspective.
Nicholas Mayer (nichmayer@gmail.com) is an MA student in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.
Carey Mickalites (cjmcklts@memphis.edu) is an assistant professor of English at the University of Memphis, where he teaches courses...
