Contributors
- Contributors
Tom Barden is professor emeritus of English and former Dean of the Honors College at the University of Toledo. His research areas are American folklore and American literature, with a focus on John Steinbeck. His book-length works include Weevils in the Wheat: Interviews with Virginia Ex-Slaves, The Travels of Peter Woodhouse, Virginia Folk Legends, Hungarian American Toledo, and Steinbeck in Vietnam: Dispatches from the War. He is the current Phi Kappa Phi National Scholar through 2014. In retirement, he teaches as an adjunct instructor at Lourdes University in Sylvania, Ohio.
Mary M. Brown is Professor of English at Indiana Wesleyan University, where she teaches modern and contemporary American literature and creative writing. An associate editor of Steinbeck Review, she is currently working on a collection of poems inspired by the life and work of John Steinbeck.
Robert DeMott is Edwin and Ruth Kennedy Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Ohio University, where he taught from 1969 to 2013. A former visiting director of San Jose State University’s Steinbeck Research Center (1984–1985), he is main editor of the Library of America’s 4-volume Steinbeck project (1994–2007). His other Steinbeck publications include the trilogy of Steinbeck’s Reading (1984), Working Days: The Journals of The Grapes of Wrath (1989), and Steinbeck’s Typewriter: Essays on his Art (1996; iUniverse reprint 2012). In 2006 he was given the Trustees Award from the National Steinbeck Center for life-long contributions to Steinbeck studies. DeMott’s most recent books are Afield: American Writers on Bird Dogs (2010) and Astream: American Writers on Fly Fishing (2012; paperback 2014).
Mimi Reisel Gladstein is the author of five books and co-editor of two. She is past president of the John Steinbeck Society of America and has been recipient of both the. John J. and Angeline Pruis Award for teaching and the Burkhardt [End Page 110] Award for Steinbeck scholarship. Her scholarly articles, covering subjects as diverse as the Harry Potter series and bilingual wordplay in Hemingway and Steinbeck, have been translated and published in both Mexico and Japan. At the University of Texas at El Paso she has served as Associate Dean of Liberal Arts, Chair of the English Department, Chair of Theatre, Dance, and Film and was first Director of the Women’s Studies Program.
Barbara A. Heavilin serves as editor in chief of Steinbeck Review and has published numerous articles and books on John Steinbeck. She was awarded the Pruis Award for outstanding contributions to Steinbeck studies and is professor emeritus of Taylor University. She currently teaches literature classes at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Her most recent book titled From an Existential Vacuum to a Tragic Optimism: The Search for Meaning and Presence of God in Modern Literature was published by Cambridge Scholars Press in December 2013.
Kathleen Hicks is a curriculum developer at Grand Canyon University in Phoenix, AZ. She earned her Ph.D. in English from Arizona State University in 2003. Her scholarly interests include twentieth-century American literature and environmental ethics. Currently, she serves as the bibliographer and writes the “Steinbeck Today” feature for Steinbeck Review.
William Ray, an independent Steinbeck scholar in the Bay Area, is the editor of five books, the organist at Steinbeck’s childhood church in Salinas, and the founder and editorial director of a new Steinbeck website http://www.SteinbeckNow.com.
Gregory K. Robinson is a graduate of the University of Toledo’s doctoral program in History and European Expansion. He currently serves as an adjunct online professor and a public school educator. His interests include archetypal First Peoples’ myth-stories and Arthurian legends.
Terrell L. Tebbetts holds the Martha Heasley Cox Chair in American Literature at Lyon College. He has published articles on modern and contemporary American fiction and poetry in journals such as New Orleans Review, Southern Literary Journal, The F. Scott Fitzgerald Review, Mississippi Quarterly, and The Faulkner Journal, which he has also served as a guest editor. His articles have also appeared in books published by the Mississippi and Alabama University presses, Greenwood, and the Modern Language Association.
John H. Timmerman is professor of English at Calvin College, where he teaches the American Novel and American...
