Notes on Contributors
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Christina Boyles is a Ph.D. student at Baylor University. Her areas of interest include 20–21st century American literature, gender studies, ethnic studies, pedagogy, and digital humanities. She also works as an Editor-at-Large at Digital Humanities Now. To read more of her work, you can find her on Twitter @clboyles or read her published work at Pupil and the Graduate Student Caucus Chronicle.
Lia Brozgal is Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies at UCLA. Her current book project deals with literary and visual representations of the October 17 massacre. In addition to a broad interest in Francophone Maghrebi literature and cinema, other areas of specialization include beur novels, Tunisian chronicles of Nazi occupation, and Judeo-Maghrebi cultural productions. She is the author of Against Autobiography: Albert Memmi and the Production of Theory (University of Nebraska Press, 2013).
Benjamin Child is a PhD candidate at the University of Mississippi. His work has appeared in Southern Cultures, Popular Music and Society, Cormac McCarthy Journal, and Journal of Popular Culture. He also contributed a chapter to a forthcoming monograph on Faulkner’s geographies (University Press of Mississippi). His dissertation is titled “Uneven Ground: Figurations of the Rural Modern in the US South, 1890–1940.”
David Mulry is Professor of English and Chair of Arts and Humanities at the College of Coastal Georgia in Brunswick. He has recent publications on Higher Education in The Chronicle of Higher Ed and Inside HigherEd, and on Joseph Conrad in The Conradian. He presents regularly at the International Conrad Conference, most recently in Rome. He has previously taught in the US, France, England, and Greece.
Elizabeth Neely is a doctoral candidate in English at the University of North Texas, recently returned from a Fulbright Grant for Dissertation Research in Brasil (Belo Horizonte), where she has lived twice before. Her dissertation, “Elizabeth Bishop in Brasil, an Ongoing Acculturation” examines Bishop’s Brasil-based poetry chronologically, showing how her increased attention to Brasilian culture, history, and language reflects her own acculturation. Her poetry has been published in Oak Bend Review, Amarillo Bay, and Colere.
Michael Pitts is a graduate of Samford University where he obtained a Bachelor’s of Science in Business Administration. From there he attended the University of Alabama at Birmingham and graduated in 2011 with a Master’s Degree in English and a concentration in American Literature. He recently taught High School English and Creative Writing and this will mark his first academic publication. He graduated in May 2013 with a Master’s Degree in Secondary Education with a concentration in English Language Arts and plans to seek admittance to a PhD program in American literature. [End Page 133]
Natasha Trethewey is the 19th Poet Laureate of the United States. She’s the author of four collections of poetry including Native Guard (2006)—for which she was awarded the 2007 Pulitzer Prize—and a book of non-fiction, Beyond Katrina: A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast (2010). At Emory University she is Robert W. Woodruff Professor of English and Creative Writing.
Barbara Will is Professor of English at Dartmouth College, where her teaching and research focuses on modernist literature and theory. She is the author, most recently, of the book Unlikely Collaboration: Gertrude Stein, Bernard Faÿ, and the Vichy Dilemma (Columbia University Press, 2011). She is currently at work on a new project on Irish writer Samuel Beckett and his involvement with the French Resistance during World War II. [End Page 134]
