Contributors
- Contributors
Jeffrey Bilbro is a Ph.D. student at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. He has published essays on Emerson, John Muir, Wendell Berry and others. His dissertation explores how American writers—particularly Thoreau, Muir, Cather, and Berry—posit differing environmental ethics based on their respective interpretations of the Christian tradition.
Christopher Castiglia is Liberal Arts Research Professor of English at the Pennsylvania State University. He is author of three monographs, Bound and Determined: Captivity, Culture-Crossing, and White Womanhood from Mary Rowlandson to Patty Hearst (Chicago, 1996); Interior States: Institutional Consciousness and the Inner Life of Democracy (Duke, 2008) and (with Christopher Reed) If Memory Serves: Gay Men, AIDS, and the Promise of the Queer Past (forthcoming, Minnesota). He is also co-editor of Walt Whitman’s temperance novel, Franklin Evans; or, the Inebriate (Duke, 2007).
Russ Castronovo is Dorothy Draheim Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His most recent book is Beautiful Democracy: Aesthetics and the Anarchy of Global Culture (Chicago, 2007). He is completing a study entitled Propaganda 1776.
Robert Efird is an Assistant Professor of Russian at Virginia Tech. He is the author of two recently published articles on the work of Andrei Tarkovsky and is currently completing a book on the film Ivan’s Childhood and an article on the Mexican filmmaker Carlos Reygadas.
Grzegorz Maziarczyk is Assistant Professor of English Literature and Literary Theory at John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland. His [End Page 310] main research interests are narrative communication, remediation and typographic experiments in fiction. He is the author of The Narratee in Contemporary British Fiction (Lublin, 2005) and has published articles on Martin Amis, J. M. Coetzee, Samuel Beckett and Mark Z. Danielewski.
Alan Nadel, William T. Bryan Chair of American Literature and Culture at the University of Kentucky, is the author of four books, including Containment Culture (Duke, 1995), Flatlining on the Field of Dreams: Cultural Narratives in the Films of President Reagan’s America (Rutgers, 1997), and Television in Black-and-White America: Race and National Identity (Kansas, 2005). He is the editor of two books on August Wilson and the co-editor, with Susan Griffin, of Henry James and Alfred Hitchcock, the Men Who Knew Too Much (forthcoming from Oxford). He has won prizes for the best essays in Modern Fiction Studies and in PMLA.
Brian Thill is Director of the Humanities Core Writing Program at UC Irvine, where he earned his Ph.D. in the Department of English. He has published work on Herbert Marcuse, the Black Power movement, Thomas Pynchon, and public intellectualism.
Erica Weitzman is a doctoral candidate in Comparative Literature at New York University and fellow of the DFG-Graduiertenkolleg “Lebensformen und Lebenswissen” at the Europa-Universität Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder), currently completing her dissertation on the aesthetics and ethics of the comic in early twentieth-century German-language literature. Her work has appeared most recently in MLN and German Quarterly. She is also the translator of work by several contemporary Albanian authors, including Kosovar poet Valentina Saraçini’s Dreaming Escape (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2008). [End Page 311]
