Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
Susan Kollin is Professor in the Department of English at Montana State University in Bozeman where she also teaches for the Programs in American Studies and Women and Gender Studies. Her essays have appeared in American Literary History, Modern Fiction Studies, Contemporary Literature, and Arizona Quarterly. She recently edited the collection, Postwestern Cultures: Literature, Theory, Space (University of Nebraska Press, 2007).
Nancy Berke is the author of Women Poets on the Left (University Press of Florida, 2001). She is Associate Professor of English at LaGuardia College, City University of New York.
Megan E. Williams is a PhD candidate in American Studies at the University of Kansas. At present, she is completing her dissertation, titled, "Performing Lena: The Postwar Autobiographical Performances of Lena Horne." Her scholarly articles on Lena Horne have appeared in American Periodicals and Journal of American Studies.
Barbara Ryan teaches in the University Scholars Programme at the National University of Singapore. She is the author of Love, Wages, Slavery (Illinois 2006) and a co-editor of Reading Acts: U.S. Readers' Interactions with Literature (Tennessee, 2002). She is currently collecting essays for another edited collection on the print, stage and film versions of Lew Wallace's romance, Ben-Hur (1880).
Erica Hannickel is Assistant Professor of Environmental History at Northland College in Wisconsin, where she teaches courses in American, environmental, and agricultural history, as well as sexuality studies and material culture. She received a PhD in American Studies from the University of Iowa in 2008. She has published articles in Comparative American Studies and ISLE, and is completing a manuscript on grape culture in 19th century America. [End Page 4]
