Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
Timothy Aubry is an associate professor of English at Baruch College, CUNY. He is the author of Reading as Therapy: What Contemporary Fiction Does for Middle-Class Americans (2011). His articles have appeared in PMLA, Contemporary Fiction, Modern Fiction Studies, and N+1.
Jordan Dominy’s research focuses on US Southern literature and culture, particularly its institutional history and representations of class and labor. His work has appeared in Mississippi Quarterly and is forthcoming in The Cormac McCarthy Review. He is Assistant Professor of English at Savannah State University, where he teaches courses in American and US Southern literature.
Nihad M. Farooq is Assistant Professor of American Studies in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. Her primary research interests are in American, African American, and Atlantic Studies, particularly transatlantic epistemologies of race and science in the long nineteenth century.
Michael LeMahieu is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Pearce Center for Professional Communication at Clemson University. He is the author of Fictions of Fact and Value: The Erasure of Logical Positivism in American Literature (Oxford UP, 2013). His current book project examines Civil War memory in American literature after 1954. LeMahieu is Editor for American Fiction for the journal Contemporary Literature.
Chris Robinson holds a Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Kansas. A freelance music writer and copywriter at Duke University Press, Robinson has written for Downbeat, Jazz Perspectives, Earshot Jazz, and the Grove Dictionary of American Music. He is currently writing a book on jazz criticism. [End Page 4]
Orville Vernon Burton is Professor of History, Sociology, and Computer Science at Clemson University, where he directs the Clemson CyberInstitute. He is emeritus University Distinguished Teacher/Scholar, University Scholar, and Professor of History, African American Studies, and Sociology at the University of Illinois. His many publications include The Age of Lincoln (Hill and Wang, 2007).
Charles Williams is Associate Professor of Political Science and Labor Studies at the University of Washington Tacoma and the author, most recently, of “Group Man and the Limits of Working-Class Politics: The Political Vision of Steinbeck’s In Dubious Battle,” in A Political Companion to John Steinbeck, ed. Cyrus Ernesto Zirakzadeh and Simon Stow (University Press of Kentucky, 2013). He is currently researching the role of labor radicalism in the anti-Chinese politics of the Puget Sound region in the 1880s. [End Page 159]
