Contributors
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Victoria Aarons, O.R. & Eva Mitchell Distinguished Professor of Literature, is chair of the English Department at Trinity University, where she teaches courses on American Jewish and Holocaust literatures. In addition to numerous scholarly articles and book chapters, Aarons is the author of A Measure of Memory: Storytelling and Identity in American Jewish Fiction (U of Georgia P, 1996) and What Happened to Abraham: Reinventing the Covenant in American Jewish Fiction (U of Delaware P, 2005), both recipients of the Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Book. She is co-editor of the Saul Bellow Journal and on the editorial boards of Philip Roth Studies, Studies in American Jewish Literature, and Women in Judaism. Aarons is currently working on an anthology in celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the Edward Lewis Wallant Award for American Jewish Fiction, for which she serves as one of the judges, titled The New Diaspora: The Changing Face of American Jewish Fiction, as well as a book project on third-generation Holocaust writers.
Rémi Astruc is professor of comparative literature and francophone studies at the University of Cergy-Pontoise, France. After completing his PhD on the subject of contemporary Jewish American identity in literature and film (Bellow, Malamud, Roth and Woody Allen), he has written several books on the grotesque, including Vertiges grotesques, Esthétiques du choc comique (roman - théâtre - cinéma) (Honoré-Champion, 2012) and contributed with several articles to different French, American and Brazilian reviews. He is currently writing on the issue of community in art.
James D. Bloom has taught literature and writing at Muhlenberg College since 1982. He is the author of Hollywood Intellect (Lexington, 2009), Gravity Fails (Praeger, 2003), The Literary Bent (U of Pennsylvania P, 1997), Left Letters (Columbia UP, 1992) and The Stock of Available Reality (Bucknell UP, 1984). His essays and reviews have appeared in American Literary History, American Studies, Contemporary Literature, Style, the New York Times Book Review, and the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Miriam Jaffe-Foger is the Assistant Director of the Writing Program at Rutgers University. She previously co-edited the Philip Roth Studies special issue “Mourning Zuckerman” with Aimee Pozorski (2009). She is currently working on a project entitled The Death of Philip Roth and an essay on Philip Roth’s relevance as a twenty-first-century author.
Michael Kimmage is an associate professor of history at the Catholic University of America. He is the author of The Conservative Turn: Lionel Trilling, Whittaker Chambers and the Lessons of Anti-Communism (Harvard UP, 2009) [End Page 119] and of In History’s Grip: Philip Roth’s Newark Trilogy (Stanford UP, 2012). He is also the translator of Wolfgang Koeppen’s Journey through America (Berghahn Books, 2012).
Till Kinzel received his Dr. phil. (2002) and Habilitation (2005) from the Technical University of Berlin and currently teaches English and American literature and culture at the Technische Universität Braunschweig. Among his publications are Platonische Kulturkritik in Amerika: Studien zu Allan Bloom’s The Closing of the American Mind (Duncker & Humblot, 2002), Nicolás Gómez Dávila (Antaios, 2003), Die Tragödie und Komödie des amerikanischen Lebens (2006) and Michael Oakeshott (Universitätsverlag Winter, 2007) as well as the edited collections Imaginary Dialogues in English: Explorations of a Literary Form (Universitätsverlag Winter, 2012; with Jarmila Mildorf) and Johann Joachim Eschenburg und die Wissenschaften und Künste zwischen Aufklärung und Romantik (Universitätsverlag Winter, 2013; with Cord-Friedrich Berghahn).
Taryne Leahey is currently completing her BA in English at Central Connecticut State University. Last spring, she completed and presented her honors thesis, “The Archetypal Coming of Age Story: Children’s Science Fiction and Fantasy as a Mirror.”
Pia Masiero is an assistant professor of North-American Literature at the University of Venice, Ca’ Foscari where she teaches twentieth-century American literature and narratology. She is the author of Philip Roth and the Zuckerman Books: The Making of a Storyworld (Cambria, 2011) and Names across the Color Line: William Faulkner’s Short Fiction 1931–1942 (Studio LT2, 2012).
Maggie McKinley is an Assistant Professor of English at Harper College in Illinois. She recently received her PhD from Marquette University where she completed a dissertation...
