Cormac McCarthy: New Directions

Contributors

vii Daniel Cooper Alarcón is an associate professor of English at the University of Arizona in Tucson. A creative writer and literary critic, he is the author of The Aztec Palimpsest: Mexico in the Modern Imagination (1997), and his scholarship has appeared in Aztlan, American Literature, MELUS, and Southwestern American Literature. His most recent short fiction has appeared in the anthologies New Chicana/Chicano Writing 3 and New World: Young Latino Writers. Edwin T.Arnold is professor of English at Appalachian State University. He has written widely on Southern literature and film. He is coeditor, with Dianne C. Luce, of Perspectives on Cormac McCarthy (1999) and A Cormac McCarthy Companion: The Border Trilogy (2001). He served as guest editor for the “Faulkner and Film” double issue of The Faulkner Journal (fall 2000/spring 2001). K. Wesley Berry is an assistant professor of English at Rockford College in northern Illinois. He teaches creative writing and contemporary literature and has published short stories, creative nonfiction, and critical essays on Walter Inglis Anderson, Wendell Berry, Toni Morrison, and Leslie Marmon Silko. The essay on Cormac McCarthy included in this collection is from a book in progress on ecological literary scholarship entitled Landscapes of Healing in Contemporary American Prose. C O N T R I B U T O R S viii : Contributors Timothy P. Caron is an associate professor of English at California State University, Long Beach. He has published essays in Studies in American Fiction and the Southern Quarterly, and he is the author of Struggles Over the Word: Race and Religion in O’Connor, Faulkner, Hurston, and Wright (2000). Caron is currently editing two other projects: a collection of Civil War writings that originally appeared in Century Magazine during the 1880s, and a collection of essays on southern literature and literary theory. Ann Fisher-Wirth is professor of English at the University of Mississippi, where she teaches courses in American literature, creative writing, and literature and environment. She is the author of William Carlos Williams and Autobiography: The Woods of His Own Nature; numerous essays on Williams, Willa Cather, Cormac McCarthy, and others; and a forthcoming book of poems, Blue Window. A former Fulbright professor at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, she is also newsletter editor for the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment. George Guillemin received a Ph.D. in American literature from the Free University in Berlin. He wrote the first dissertation on Cormac McCarthy in Germany and hosted the first European Conference on Cormac McCarthy in Berlin in 1998. He currently works in the public relations department of a German high-tech corporation. Matthew R. Horton is a Ph.D. candidate in English at the University of Georgia, where he studies twentieth-century British and American literature. His essay in this collection derives from his master’s thesis, “Narrative Structures of Time and Space in Cormac McCarthy’s The Orchard Keeper and Outer Dark.” For his dissertation, he plans to explore the relationship between historical perception and fictional narrative in all of McCarthy’s novels. Robert L. Jarrett is an associate professor of English at University of Houston-Downtown, where he directs the Professional Writing degree. He is the author of Cormac McCarthy, a volume in the Twayne ix : Contributors United States Authors series, and has published several other articles on Cormac McCarthy and southwestern literature. James D. Lilley is the author of essays, reviews, and interviews that have appeared in the Southern Quarterly, Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment, MELUS, and the Mississippi Review. He is working on a Ph.D. dissertation at Princeton University that explores how the literature of the emerging U.S. nation influenced, and was influenced by, the politics of Indian removal and African colonization . Dianne C. Luce is chair of the English Department at Midlands Technical College in Columbia, South Carolina. She has published several articles on Cormac McCarthy since 1980. Together with Edwin T. Arnold, she is editor of Perspectives on Cormac McCarthy (1993, rev. ed. 1999) and A Cormac McCarthy Companion: The Border Trilogy (2001). Her other books include Annotations to William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying (1990), William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying: A Critical Casebook (1985), and an edition of William Faulkner’s Elmer (1983). Adam Parkes is an associate professor of English at the University of Georgia, where he teaches modern British and American literature. He is the...