Contributors
- Contributors
Zachary Finch has essays on American poetry and poetics published in The Wallace Stevens Journal, Jacket, Boston Review and P-queue. His poetry has appeared in journals such as Poetry, American Letters & Commentary, Tin House, Fence and Sentence: A Journal of Prose Poetics. He received his PhD in English from SUNY Buffalo in 2012 and currently teaches as a Visiting Lecturer in English and Creative Writing at Dartmouth College.
Lydia Fisher teaches in the English Department and the University Studies program at Portland State University. She is completing a book project entitled Domesticating the Nation: Science and Home Culture in Nineteenth-Century America, which examines the convergence of scientific theory and domestic ideology in American literature and culture. She is also co-editor of America’s Darwin: Darwinian Theory and U.S. Culture, 1859-Present, an interdisciplinary collection of essays that examine the influence of Darwin on American culture (forthcoming in 2014 from the University of Georgia Press).
Alex Link teaches English at the Alberta College of Art + Design, where he is also currently Faculty Association President. His research interests include Contemporary, American and Popular literatures such as Comics Narrative and the Gothic, and he has published scholarly articles in such journals as Contemporary Literature, Gothic Studies and The Journal of Popular Culture (forthcoming). He is also co-author of the serialized horror graphic novella Rebel Blood, praised by one reviewer as a triumph of bad taste. [End Page 446]
Hugh McIntosh is a doctoral candidate in English at Northwestern University, with research interests in transatlantic culture and the politics of genre. His dissertation, “Entertaining the Union,” explores the impact of sensationalism on the literature of the American Civil War.
Claudia Stokes is Associate Professor of English at Trinity University. She is the author of Writers in Retrospect: The Rise of American Literary History, 1875–1910, which was published by the University of North Carolina Press in 2006. She is also co-editor, with Michael A. Elliott, of American Literary Studies: A Methodological Reader (New York University Press, 2002). She is currently completing a book manuscript entitled, The Altar at Home: Sentimentalism and Religion in the American Nineteenth Century. [End Page 447]
