Contributors
- Contributors
christian asplund is a Canadian American composer–performer based in Utah, where he teaches at Brigham Young University. As a composer, his interests have included the intersections of text/music, improvisation/composition, and modular textures/forms. His articles, chapters, and a book on such topics as American experimental music, and music as it relates to spirituality, politics, and post-structuralism, have appeared in Perspectives of New Music, American Music, Illinois University Press, and University of Washington Press. He has received awards and grants from the Genesis Foundation, Barlow Endowment, Artistrust, King County, ASCAP, Alpert Foundation, and the Jack Straw Foundation. Frog Peak Music publishes his scores, and he appears on recordings on such labels as Tzadik, Comprovise, Maritime Fist Gleeclub, Sparkling Beatnik, and Present Sounds. His website is at http://christianasplund.me/.
charles e. brewer is Professor of Musicology at Florida State University. While he has published research on medieval and baroque music, he is currently finishing a study of the avant-garde films made by the “Rochester Amateurs” around 1930, including “The Fall of the House of Usher” and the sound film “Lot in Sodom,” based on his research in the Watson Papers at the George Eastman House and the musical manuscripts of the Sibley Music Library.
john a. dern is an Associate Professor of Intellectual Heritage at Temple University. He has published Martians, Monsters, and Madonna: Fiction and Form in the World of Martin Amis (Peter Lang) and essays on a variety of subjects in journals such as the Edgar Allan Poe Review, Interdisciplinary Literary Studies, Literature/Film Quarterly, Pennsylvania English, and the Radio Journal. He has also published pedagogical articles in the Teaching Professor newsletter.
heyward ehrlich is Emeritus Professor of English, Rutgers Newark. His “Poe Webliography” was first published in Poe Studies in 1999 and is updated regularly online. His edition of Poe’s reviews and notices in Philadelphia magazines is in preparation for the Collected Writings. [End Page 151]
gregor herzfeld is a research assistant at the Seminar für Musikwissenschaft of Freie Universität Berlin and editor of the journal Archiv für Musikwissenschaft. He studied musicology and philosophy in Heidelberg and Cremona, and his dissertation deals with time as process and epiphany in American experimental music. In 2012 he earned his “Habilitation” with a study of Edgar Allan Poe’s influence on music history (published as Poe in der Musik: Eine versatile Allianz). His latest publications include a book chapter, “Die Klaviertrios und Klavierquartette,” in Beethoven’s Kammermusik: Das Handbuch, and the articles “‘The Notes Can Be Extremely Strange’: Les Baxters Scores für Roger Corman’s Poe-Filme” in Kieler Beiträge zur Filmmusikforschung, “Disney psychedelisch: Musik und Rausch im Zeichentrickfilm” in Acta Musicologica, and “Affekt und Autonomie: Spinozas Beitrag zur Musikgeschichte des 18. Jahrhunderts” in Musik & Ästhetik.
charity mcadams is a member of the Honors Faculty at the Barrett Honors College of Arizona State University, where she has the pleasure of teaching literature to bright young minds. She studied for her Ph.D. in English literature in the romantic mists of Scotland, earning her degree in 2013 from the University of Edinburgh. She is forever grateful to her mentors there, Peter Dayan and Sarah Dunnigan, to the Word and Music Association for their feedback on her work on Poe, and to all of those at the Edgar Allan Poe Review, who have been so generous.
travis montgomery is Assistant Professor of English at Fort Hays State University, and his work has appeared in publications such as the Southern Literary Journal and Gothic Studies.
dennis r. perry is an associate professor of English at Brigham Young University. Specializing in pre-1865 American literature and film adaptation studies, he has published essays on Hitchcock, Hawthorne, Melville, and Whitman, together with essays and three books on Poe. Most recently, with Carl Sederholm, he edited Adapting Poe: Re-imaginings in Popular Culture (Palgrave Macmillan), and an essay on Poe and 1940s horror films in Recovering 1940s Horror Cinema: Traces of a Lost Decade (Lexington Books).
mike smith has published three collections of poetry including Multiverse, a collection of two anagrammatic cycles, and Byron in Baghdad. Recent poems and essays have appeared or are forthcoming...
