Papa, PhD: Essays on Fatherhood by Men in the Academy

Notes on Contributors

Mike Augspurger received his PhD from the American Studies Department at the University of Iowa. After spending seven years visiting English, history, and American Studies departments at the University of Central Arkansas, the University of Regensburg (Germany), and Augustana College (Illinois), he has settled down into the role of director of advising at Augustana. He is the author of An Economy of Abundant Beauty: “Fortune” Magazine and Depression America and has published essays on Sinclair Lewis, Archibald MacLeish, Henry Luce, and Robert Penn Warren, among others. Charles Bane has lived in numerous places all over the country and has worked variously as a country music disc jockey, an oil refinery demolition specialist, a movie critic, and an eighth-grade English teacher. He earned his doctorate in twentieth-century literature and film with a minor in comparative literature from Louisiana State University in 2006. He now lives with his wife, Paulette, and his three children, Ericka, Katherine, and Geo¤rey, in Conway, where he is an assistant professor of literature and director of English education at the University of Central Arkansas. Kevin G. Barnhurst (PhD, University of Amsterdam, 1997) teaches theory and research methods as a professor of communication at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is the award-winning author of Seeing the Newspaper , coauthor (with John Nerone) of The Form of News: A History, and editor of Media Queered (Peter Lang, Inc.) and has published more than one hundred articles on the ideology of news, visual communication, and the sociological life histories of young adult audience members. Besides the Fulbright to Peru and the fellowship at Columbia described here, he was a Shorenstein Fellow at Harvard, a Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Italy, Notes on Contributors 231 04 Contributors_Manu 7/1/2010 5:30 PM Page 231 and a Faculty Scholar at the Great Cities Institute in Chicago. The product of a Korean War a¤air, he lost his mother when he was nine and never met his natural father, who in family lore was a Jew who converted to Mormonism and became a bishop in Salt Lake City. David Haven Blake is a professor of English at the College of New Jersey, where he teaches courses in American literature, film, and creative non- fiction. He is the author of Walt Whitman and the Culture of American Celebrity and the coeditor of Walt Whitman, Where the Future Becomes Present. His political and cultural essays have appeared in Epoch, Virginia Quarterly Review, the Chronicle Review, and the Huªngton Post. He is currently writing a book on the convergence of politics and celebrity in Dwight Eisenhower’s presidential campaigns. John Bryant, a professor of English at Hofstra University, has written on Herman Melville, related writers of the nineteenth century, and textual scholarship; he is also editor of Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies. His recent book Melville Unfolding: Sexuality, Politics, and the Versions of Typee is based on his online fluid-text edition, titled Herman Melville’s Typee, appearing in the Rotunda electronic imprint (University of Virginia, 2006). His books include A Companion to Melville Studies, Melville and Repose: The Rhetoric of Humor in the American Renaissance, and The Fluid Text: A Theory of Revision and Editing for Book and Screen. He has edited several editions of Melville works, including Typee, The Confidence-Man, Melville ’s Tales, Poems, and Other Writings, and the Longman Critical Edition of Moby-Dick. He is currently working on a critical biography, Herman Melville: A Half-Known Life, and the Melville Electronic Library (MEL), an online archive. David G. Campbell, a professor of biology at Grinnell College, is a scientist, teacher, and author. He may be the only biologist to have research sites in those antitheses of diversity, the Amazon and Antarctica. After coming to Grinnell College in 1991, Campbell began a long-term project in Belize on the Maya forest and its people. The author of numerous professional papers, Campbell is also a writer of literary nonfiction. His works include The Ephemeral Islands (1977), a natural history of the Bahama Islands; The Crystal Desert (1993), a reminiscence on three summers in Antarctica (chosen as one of the notable books of 1993 by the New York Times Book Review); Islands in Space and Time (1996), an exploration of ten wilderness 232 Notes on Contributors 04 Contributors_Manu 7/1/2010 5:30 PM Page 232 areas from Palau to Paraguay; and...