Contributors
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Authors
Cordelia E. Barrera is an assistant professor of English at Texas Tech University specializing in Latina/o literatures and the North American Southwest as well as US border theory, third space feminist theory, popular culture, and film. She writes movie reviews for the border-lands journal LareDOS and has published articles and reviews in The Quarterly Review of Film and Video and the Journal of Popular Culture. Her current book project explores the literature of southwestern frontier via third space technologies of the body and border theory.
Neil Campbell is a professor of American studies and research manager at the University of Derby, UK. He has published widely in American studies. He is coeditor of Issues on Americanisation and Culture. He has published on John Sayles, Terrence Malick, Robert Frank, J. B. Jackson, Wim Wenders, D. J. Waldie, and many others. He has recently edited two essay collections, Land and Identity (2011) and Photocinema (2013). His major research project is an interdisciplinary trilogy of books on the contemporary American West: The Cultures of the American New West (2000), The Rhizomatic West (2008); the final part, Post-Westerns, on cinematic representations of the New West is due in 2013.
Susan Kollin is a professor of English and the College of Letters and Science Distinguished Professor at Montana State University. She is the author of Nature’s State: Imagining Alaska as the Last Frontier (2001) and editor of Postwestern Cultures: Literature, Theory, Space (2007). Her articles have appeared in American Literary History, Arizona Quarterly, Contemporary Literature, Modern Fiction Studies, Genre, and Studies in the Novel. She is presently working on a book manuscript on “the Western in the world.”
Lee Clark Mitchell is Holmes Professor of Belles-Lettres at Princeton University. He is the author of Westerns: Making the Man in Fiction and Film, Witnesses to a Vanishing America: The Nineteenth-Century Response, Determined Fictions: American Literary Naturalism, and coauthor of The Photograph and the American Indian.
Stephen Tatum is a professor of English and the director of the Environmental Humanities graduate program at the University of Utah. His most recent book is In the Remington Moment (2010); his most recent article in Western American Literature (Winter 2012) is “Morta Las Vegas,” co-authored with Nathaniel Lewis.
Jennifer S. Tuttle is Dorothy M. Healy Chair in Literature and Health at the University of New England in Maine, where she also directs the Maine Women Writers Collection. She remains connected to her home state of California through pursuing scholarship on the American West, including a book manuscript in progress with the working title [End Page 366] “Unsettling the West: ‘American Nervousness’ in California Women’s Writing,” along with her published work on María Amparo Ruiz de Burton, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and Owen Wister. She is also the editor of Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers.
James Weaver is an assistant professor of English at Denison University, where he teaches courses in American literature and literature and the environment. He is currently working on an essay about Helen Hunt Jackson’s Colorado writings and a project about representations of nature in American popular culture.
Artists
Ward Lockwood (1894–1963) worked as a commercial artist in his home community of Kansas City before joining the artists’ colony in Taos, New Mexico, in 1926. After brief stints as a teacher under the guidance of Boardman Robinson at the Broadmoor Art Academy, Lockwood received commissions to paint murals for the WPA in the mid-1930s. In 1938, he returned to teaching, accepting a job as a professor at the University of Texas, where he founded and organized the university’s first art department.
Frank Mechau (1904–1946) was a Colorado-born artist whose work was inspired by the natural beauty and iconic history of the US West. He was commissioned to complete eleven murals as part of Roosevelt’s New Deal art program, the first of which, titled Horses at Night (1934), was praised as the “greatest work of art … produced under the project.” Like Lockwood, Mechau coupled his artistic pursuits with an academic career, teaching at the Broadmoor Art Academy and the Colorado Springs Fine Art Center before briefly heading the Department...
