Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
ELIZABETH COVINGTON (elizabeth.covington@vanderbilt.edu) is senior lecturer and assistant director of the Writing Studio at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN. She received her PhD from Vanderbilt in 2011 and is currently working on a book on experimental psychological theories of memory and late-Victorian and modernist literature. Her research interests include science studies, British women writers, and modernist writings on Ceylon (Sri Lanka).
LEWIS S. GLEICH (lgleich@umd.edu) is a doctoral candidate in English at the University of Maryland, College Park, where he is writing a dissertation that examines the politics of hospitality in twentieth- and twenty-first-century US fiction. He has presented papers at numerous international conferences, and his work has also been published in Narrative. He completed his undergraduate studies at Hamilton College and Oxford University.
ONNO KOSTERS (o.r.kosters@uu.nl) studied English literature and literary theory at the Free University, Amsterdam. He is assistant professor of English literature and translation at Utrecht University, specializes in English poetry (eighteenth and nineteenth century and contemporary), and modernist and post-modernist literature, with a specific interest in James Joyce and Samuel Beckett. He took his PhD at Utrecht University with a study of closure in the works of James Joyce. Kosters is a published poet and has also translated prose and poetry by Samuel Beckett, Wallace Stevens, Seamus Heaney, and others. He is director of the XXIV International James Joyce Symposium, Utrecht University, 15–20 June 2014.
MARIA LUPAS (lupasm@georgetown.edu) recently completed her PhD in comparative literature at Aix-Marseille Université, France. The research for this article was undertaken with the support of a Tziporah Wiesel fellowship at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, US Holocaust Memorial Museum, in Washington, DC. Her research languages include English, Romanian, French, Latin, Ancient Greek, and Japanese.
BERYL PONG (beryl.pong@utoronto.ca) is a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto. Prior to that, she completed her PhD at Cambridge University and she was a scholar in residence at Herstmonceux Castle (Queen’s University). [End Page 191]
PATRICK PRITCHETT (ppritchett@amherst.edu) is a visiting assistant professor in English and film studies at Amherst College. His essays have appeared in ELN, Radical Vernacular: Lorine Niedecker and the Politics of Place (Iowa UP, 2008) and Ronald Johnson: Life and Works (National Poetry Foundation, 2008) and he is a frequent contributor to Jacket 2. His books of poetry include Burn, Gnostic Frequencies, and the forthcoming Song X.
JILL RICHARDS (jillcrichards@gmail.com) is a graduate student in the English department at UC Berkeley. She is completing a dissertation project entitled, “Fire-Starters: Women’s Rights, Human Rights, and the International Avant-Gardes.” Her published or forthcoming articles can be found in Camera Obscura, Victorian Poetry, and the Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism. In fall 2014, she will be an assistant professor in the English department at Yale University.
ERIC BECK RUBIN (www.ericbeckrubin.com) is a member of the Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design at the University of Toronto, where he teaches on monument and memorial theory and design. He completed his dissertation at Goldsmiths College, University of London, on the representation of the Holocaust in novels by Imre Kertész, Georges Perec, and Jonathan Safran Foer. His main interest is in the way works of artifice transmit historical records and memories. He is currently an adjunct curator for the Art Gallery of Ontario’s 2015 exhibition of Henryk Ross’s photographs of the Łodz Ghetto, and will be contributing to the catalogue, Memory Unearthed (Yale UP).
KAROLYN STEFFENS (ksteffens@wisc.edu) received her doctorate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She specializes in twentieth-century British and Anglophone literature, modernism and trauma theory. Her dissertation investigates the role affirmation and regeneration can play within trauma theory through interpretations of Ford Madox Ford, Virginia Woolf, Pat Barker, Ian McEwan, and J.M. Coetzee.
LUKE THURSTON (lut@aber.ac.uk) is senior lecturer in modern literature at Aberystwyth University, where he is also director of the David Jones Centre. His most recent book is Literary Ghosts from the Victorians to Modernism: the Haunting Interval (Routledge, 2012), and...
