Contributors

299 Daniel Anderson is a Ph.D candidate at Case Western Reserve University. He wrote his Master’s thesis on Philip Roth’s Zuckerman Bound books and their relationship to the Neo-Aristotelianism of the University of Chicago’s English department. His research interests include twentieth-century American and Jewish-American literature with a secondary interest in film studies. Claudia Franziska Brühwiler is a PhD candidate in Political Science at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. Her dissertation is funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF), and analyzes the political dimension in the novels of Philip Roth. Stian Stang Christiansen (b. 1978) is a civil servant in the Norwegian government. He wrote his Master’s thesis in comparative literature on the role of Nathan Zuckerman in the American Trilogy. Jay L. Halio, Emeritus Professor English at the University of Delaware, is author of Philip Roth Revisited (Twayne, 1992), and co-editor with Ben Siegel of Philip Roth: Turning up the Flame: The Later Novels of Philip Roth (University of Delaware Press, 2005) and the upcoming Playful and Serious: Philip Roth as Comic Writer (University of Delaware Press). Velichka D. Ivanova, Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Picardie Jules-Verne, France, is currently completing a book-length study, Critique de l’utopie: essai sur Milan Kundera et Philip Roth. She had recently published essays entitled: “A Contemporary Return to the Medieval Everyman: Philip Roth’s Novel”; “Provocation littéraire, révolte esthétique. Étude sur Viktor Paskov, Milan Kundera et Philip Roth”; and “L’irrationnel de l’Histoire chez Milan Kundera et Philip Roth.” Miriam Jaffe-Foger is an Assistant Director of the Rutgers University Writing Program. Her passion for the writing of Philip Roth began in her dissertation , entitled “Cross-Ethnic Mediums and the Autobiographical Gesture in Twentieth Century American Literature.” She continues to write about Roth and other American writers while teaching at Rutgers. Clotilde Landais has studied Comparative Literature in both France and North America. Having received her MA in French and German Literatures from Bowling Green State University, OH, in 2002, she completed her PhD in Contemporary North American Literature at the University of La Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris, with Prof. Jean Bessière in 2008. She is currently a Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Pepperdine in Lausanne. Dr. Landais specializes in the literary representation of the writer and his doppelgänger. She regularly takes part in North-American Contributors 300 Philip Roth Studies Fall 2009 and European conferences on horror fiction, metafiction or narrative and has published some of her works, in particular in the @nalyses journal issued by the University of Ottawa, Quebec, and in the French “Colloque de Cerisy” series. Taylor H. Loomis earned a bachelor’s degree in English from Central Connecticut State University in 2006, with a primary concentration in Victorian literature and a secondary concentration in contemporary American literature . At CCSU, Taylor completed an honors thesis entitled, “No Exit: The Victorian Ghost Study,” which examines the psychological and cultural roles and implications of ghost stories in Victorian England through the works of Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins and Charlotte Brontë. He is currently enrolled in a teacher certification program to teach English, grades 7-12. Taylor aspires to earn a Ph.D. and to teach English at the collegiate level. John N. McDaniel is author of the first critical monograph on Philip Roth’s fiction, The Fiction of Philip Roth (Haddenfield House, 1974), and is now finishing his twenty-sixth year as the dean of the College of Liberal Arts at Middle Tennessee State University. He has specialized in the teaching of Shakespeare for the past forty years. Among other scholarly publications, he translated into English Giuseppe Cocchiara’s monumental Italian study, The History of Folklore in Europe (1981). J. C. Phillipps is an author and artist. She just released her first picture book, Wink!: The Ninja Who Wanted to Be Noticed through Viking Press. She doesn’t normally paint portraits of authors, but was happy to do so for her friend, Aimee. Aimee Pozorski is an associate professor of English at Central Connecticut State University, where she teaches contemporary...