Contributors
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Abel Bartley is the Director of Pan African Studies at Clemson University. He is the author of Keeping the Faith: Race, Politics, and Social Development in Jacksonville, Florida, 1940-1970 (2000). He is currently working on a book on the difficult process of integrating the Duval County (Florida) Public School System and a study of seven racially charged sporting events in American history.
Dennis Bingham teaches English and Film Studies in the IU School of Liberal Arts at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. He is the author of Whose Lives Are They Anyway? The Biopic as Contemporary Film Genre (2010) and numerous writings on stardom, acting, genre, and gender in cinema. He is also the newest member of a/b's editorial board.
James Burns teaches African History and Film and History at Clemson University. He is the author of Flickering Shadows: Cinema and Identity in Colonial Zimbabwe (2002) and co-author of A History of Sub-Saharan Africa (2007). He is currently working on a history of movie audiences in the African Diaspora.
Julie Codell is Professor of Art History at Arizona State University and Faculty Affiliate in Film and Media Studies, English, Gender and Women's Studies, and Asian Studies. She has published 150 books, chapters, articles, reviews, and encyclopedia entries on Victorian culture and on film. She wrote The Victorian Artist (2003) and Images of an Idyllic Past: Edward Curtis's Photographs (1988); edited The Art of Transculturation (2011), Photography and the Imperial Durbars of British India (2011), The Political Economy of Art (2008), Genre, Gender, Race, World Cinema (2007), and Imperial Co-Histories (2003); and co-edited Encounters in the Victorian Press (2004) and Orientalism Transposed (1998), now translated into Japanese (2011).
William H. Epstein, Professor of English at the University of Arizona, is a distinguished biographer, biographical critic, and biographical theorist. He has written John Cleland: A Life (1974) and Recognizing Biography (1987), edited Contesting the Subject: Essays in the Postmodern Theory and Practice of Biography and Biographical Criticism (1991), and contributed many articles on these and related subjects to learned journals. His work has been nominated for the MLA's James Russell Lowell Prize and Phi Beta Kappa's Christian Gauss Award and has won the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies' Clifford Prize. He has been awarded grants from ACLS and [End Page 177] NEH, has served as Chair of the Executive Committee of MLA's Non-Fictional Prose Division, and is on the editorial board of a/b: Auto/Biography Studies.
Julia Erhart is Head of the Screen and Media Department at Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia. Her research has looked at representations of the historical past in movies and other screen media, including historical-fiction films, low-budget autobiographical work, mockumentaries, and the biopic. A Fulbright Fellowship was awarded in support of this research. Her essays have appeared in The Queer Screen Reader (2007), Camera Obscura, Screen, and Screening the Past. More recently she has embarked on a pilot interview-based study of the experiences of gay-parented families, particularly with respect to schools.
Gabriele Linke is professor of British and American Cultural Studies at the Universität Rostock, Germany. She is the author of Populärliteratur und kulturelles Gedächtnis (2006), in which she re-reads American and British popular romances as cultural memory. Her recent research and writing have focused on representations of cultural contact in American and British media, especially film, and on transnational aspects of autobiographical writing. She is currently developing a project on the diversity of contemporary autobiography in Scotland and its relationship with the re-formation of the Scottish nation.
Ira Nadel is Professor of English at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of biographies of Leonard Cohen, Tom Stoppard, and David Mamet. He published Biography: Fiction, Fact and Form (1984) and Joyce and The Jews (1989). His new work, Leon Uris: Life of a Bestseller, appeared in 2010. A Critical Companion to Philip Roth will appear in 2011. He is also a member of a/b's editorial board.
R. Barton Palmer is Calhoun Lemon Professor of Literature at Clemson University, where he also directs the Film Studies program. Palmer...
