A Political Companion to John Steinbeck

Contributors

Contributors 357 Adrienne Akins Warfield is assistant professor of English at Mars Hill University in Mars Hill, North Carolina. She has published articles on twentieth-century American literature and culture in the Southern Literary Journal, Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, Mississippi Quarterly , Journal of the Short Story in English, Southern Quarterly, and other journals. Michael T. Gibbons is associate professor in the Department of Government and International Affairs at the University of South Florida in Tampa. He teaches courses on religion and politics, politics and the military, and contemporary political theory. His primary research interests focus on the American founding and contemporary political theory. His current research includes a book on Richard Rorty. He is the editor in chief of Blackwell’s Encyclopedia of Political Thought, eight volumes, forthcoming in 2013. Mimi R. Gladstein is professor of English and theatre arts at the University of Texas at El Paso, where she has served as associate dean of liberal arts, chair of the English Department, and chair of the Theatre, Dance, and Film Department. She is the author of five books and the coeditor of two, one of which, The Last Supper of Chicano Heroes: Selected Works of José Antonio Burciaga, won an American Book Award, a Southwest Book Award, and a Latino Book Award. Gladstein is former president of the John Steinbeck Society of America. 358 Contributors Roxanne Harde is associate professor of English and McCalla University Professor at the University of Alberta, Augustana Faculty. She studies American literature and culture and teaches courses in feminist literary theory and American literature. She has recently published Reading the Boss: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Works of Bruce Springsteen, and her essays have appeared in several journals, including Christianity and Literature, Legacy, Studies in Puritan American Spirituality, Critique, Feminist Theology, Mosaic, and in several edited collections. Robert S. Hughes earned a PhD in English at Indiana University and taught American literature, film, writing, and popular fiction at the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa. He left the university in 2008 to write full time. His nonfiction publications include Beyond The Red Pony: A Reader’s Companion to Steinbeck’s Complete Short Stories—also translated into Japanese; John Steinbeck: A Study of the Short Fiction; and numerous essays and reviews. He is also the author of a series of detective novels that have been optioned for television. Donna Kornhaber is assistant professor in the Department of English at the University of Texas at Austin, where she teaches classes in film history and theory, American drama, and the modern American novel. She received her PhD from Columbia University and her MFA in dramatic writing from the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. James H. Meredith retired from the U.S. Air Force as a lieutenant colonel in 2004 after twenty-five years of service. He was professor of English at the Air Force Academy. He is the author of Understanding the Literature of World War II (1999); Understanding the Literature of World War I (2004); “Fitzgerald and War,” in A Historical Guide to F. Scott Fitzgerald (2004); and “Tender Is the Night and the Calculus of Modern War,” in TwentyFirst -Century Readings of Tender Is the Night (2007). In addition to being a contributing editor of War, Literature, and the Arts: An International Journal of the Arts, he is also president of the Ernest Hemingway Foundation and Society. Lauren Onkey is vice president of education and public programs at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland, Ohio. Prior to¯ Contributors 359 that she was associate professor of English at Ball State University. Her research and teaching explore the intersection of popular music with cultural studies, literature, and women’s studies. Her book Blackness and Transatlantic Irish Identity: Celtic Soul Brothers was published by Routledge in 2009. Marijane Osborn is a recently retired professor in the English Department at the University of California in Davis and recipient of a Phi Beta Kappa teaching award. Author of several books on Beowulf and Chaucer and numerous articles on “real things” in Old English poetry (from invading Viking ships to tame bees), she has also published articles on Melville, D. H. Lawrence, and C. S. Lewis, among other modern writers, and has translated a great deal of poetry as well as publishing some of her own. A favorite among her own books is one she coauthored with Gillian...