Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
MELISSA BAILAR is Professor in the Practice of Humanities and the Associate Director of the Humanities Research Center at Rice University. She has published articles on Sarah Bernhardt, Nicole Brossard, Marguerite Duras, and trends in higher education and is the editor of the collection Emerging Disciplines (Rice University Press, 2010). She serves as a principal investigator on multiple grants from the Andrew W Mellon Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Her teaching focuses on critical humanities of health, French film, and nineteenth-century French literature.
SHANNON DERBY is a PhD candidate in English at Tufts University and holds an MPhil in Irish Literature from Trinity College Dublin. Her research interests include travel literature and imperialism, modernism, and nineteenth- and twentieth-century Irish, British, and Anglophone literature. She has presented her research on Louis MacNeice, Northern Ireland, and tourism in the West Indies, and is working on a dissertation on travel literature, mobility, and cultural imperialism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries titled, "Never Wide and Never Free": Mobility, Gender, and Empire in Narratives of Travel. She teaches courses in freshman writing at Tufts University and travel literature, literature of empire, and international women writers at Emerson College.
KRISTINE LARSEN is Professor of Astronomy at Central Connecticut State University where her much of her research and teaching focus on the intersections between science and society, including scientific themes and references in the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, George R.R. Martin, J. K. Rowling, Phillip Pullman, Neil Gaiman, and Andrzej Sapkowski, and myriad televisions series, including The Walking Dead, In the Flesh, Dominion, and Doctor Who. She is the author of [End Page 221] Stephen Hawking: A Biography and Cosmology 101, and co-editor of The Mythological Dimensions of Doctor Who and The Mythological Dimensions of Neil Gaiman.
SHEILA LIMING is Assistant Professor of English at the University of North Dakota where she teaches classes in twentieth-century American literature and media history. Her scholarship has appeared elsewhere in journals like American Literary Realism and JML: Journal of Modern Literature. Her first book—about Edith Wharton, bibliophilia, and personal library collections in early twentieth-century America—is forthcoming from the University of Iowa Press.
CHRISTOPHER MARTINIANO is a PhD candidate of Indiana University/Bloomington as well as an adjunct professor for the Department of English at Loyola University Chicago. His dissertation, "In the Forests of the Night": Eighteenth Century Imagination, Creativity, and William Blake's Bounding Line "Gath'ring Thick," reflects his diverse research interests in eighteenth century British literature and art history, creativity studies, and aesthetic theory.
WIETSKE SMEELE is a Ph.D. candidate at Vanderbilt University. She is currently writing her dissertation, The Victorian Posthuman: Monstrous Bodies in Science and Literature, which argues that representations of the posthuman began to appear in the nineteenth century as a way of understanding the developing sciences and the newly scientized human. In 2015, she received the MMLA Graduate Paper Prize, from which this article draws.
MARIA VENDETTI is an Assistant Professor of French in the Romance Languages Department of St Olaf College, in Northfield, Minnesota. Her research centers on representations of torture in fiction about the Algerian War of Independence. She is also interested in 20th- and 21st-century narratives of torture, trauma, and memory theory, the relationship between fiction and ethics, and the literary, social, and political legacies of colonial and postcolonial violence in the Maghreb and France. [End Page 222]
