Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
Nancy Bird-Soto is Associate Professor of Spanish at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She has published two scholarly books on Puerto Rican women writers at the turn of the twentieth century, as well as several articles on Luisa Capetillo and other Latin American and US Latino/a authors. Her first book of short stories in Spanish, Sobre la tela de una araña, has been published as an e-book. Her research focuses on matters related to feminisms, gender constructions, and cultural identities.
Nichole DeWall is assistant professor of English at McKendree University, where she teaches medieval and early modern literature, as well as drama and composition courses. Her research focuses on teaching Shakespeare and representations of disease in Shakespeare's plays. She recently published "'Sweet recreation barred': The Case for Playgoing in Plague-Time" in Representing the Plague in Early Modern England (Routledge, 2010); she also has a forthcoming publication titled "Into the Archives: Using EEBO in the Early Modern Literature Classroom" in a collection on technology in the classroom (Bedford / St. Martin's). She frequently participates in the Shakespeare Association of America's seminars and workshops.
Thomas Fahy is an Associate Professor of English and Director of the American Studies Program at Long Island University-Post. He has published numerous books, including Understanding Truman Capote (forthcoming), Staging Modern American Life: Popular Culture in the Experimental Theatre of Millay, Cummings, and Dos Passos, and Freak Shows and the Modern American Imagination: Constructing the Damaged Body from Willa Cather to Truman Capote. He is also the editor of several essay collections and the recent anthology Alan Ball: Conversations. His research primarily focuses on the intersections between literature and popular culture in twentieth-century American life. [End Page 115]
Daniel Gates is assistant professor of English at Saginaw Valley State University. He is the author of articles on Doctor Faustus and on the status of religion in early modern cultural studies; he is currently researching the performance of anger on the stages and in the streets of early modern London.
Blake Seana Locklin is Assistant Professor of Spanish at Texas State University-San Marcos. She is the author of a chapter in Orientalism and Identity in Latin America and several articles. Her interest in both pedagogies of reading and cultural connections between Asia and Spanish America arose out of experiences living and teaching English at the University of Macau at the beginning of her teaching career.
Winter Jade Werner is a Ph.D. candidate in English at Northwestern University. Her dissertation, "The Gospel and the Globe: Missionary Enterprises and the Cosmopolitan Imagination, 1795-1910," examines how British Protestant mission societies influenced expressions of cosmopolitan idealism in Romantic and Victorian literature. [End Page 116]
