Contributors to This Issue
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A doctoral student in the American Studies Program at the University of Kansas, Margaret Burton has published essays on George Steiner and Emma Lazarus. Having assisted with the project Holocaust Literature: An Encyclopedia of Writers and Their Work (edited by S. Lillian Kremer [New York: Routledge, 2003]), she is now studying what has been termed the “black-Jewish alliance” of the civil rights movement of the 1960s, with an emphasis on memory and the representation of the past in popular culture.
Sandu Frunză is Associate Professor in the Department of Systematic Philosophy at Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania. He teaches courses on Philosophy of Religions, Jewish Philosophy, and Post-Holocaust Philosophy. He is editor of the Journal for the Study of Religions and Ideologies and author of the books Philosophy and Judaism (in Romanian, 2006), Religious Fundamentalism and the New Conflict of Ideologies (in Romanian, 2003), Religious Experience in Dumitru Staniloae’s Thought (in Romanian, 2001), Love and Transcendence (in Romanian, 1999), A Mystical Anthropology (in Romanian, 1996). He is editor or co-editor of the books Education and Cultural Diversity (in English, 2006), The Challenges of Multiculturalism in Central and Eastern Europe (in English, 2005), Steps Towards Integration: Religion and Human Rights in Romania (in Romanian, 2004), and Philosophy and Religion: A Multidisciplinary Approach (in Romanian, 2001). Email: sfrunza@yahoo.com.
Lori Jirousek (Ph.D., the Pennsylvania State University, 1999) is an associate professor of English at New York Institute of Technology in Manhattan. Her research interests include American immigrant writing, ethnic writers, and ethnography. She has published scholarly essays in journals such as MELUS, [End Page ix] African American Review, Journal of Modern Literature, Modern Language Studies, and Studies in American Jewish Literature.
Walter Metz is an associate professor and the interim department head in Media and Theatre Arts at Montana State University at Bozeman, where he teaches the history, theory, and criticism of film, theatre, and television. He is the author of two books: Engaging Film Criticism: Film History and Contemporary American Cinema (Peter Lang, 2004) and Bewitched (Wayne State University Press, 2007). He is also the author of two dozen journal articles and book chapters, many of which center on intertextuality in the cinema. In 2003–2004, he was Fulbright Guest Professor of American Studies at the John F. Kennedy Institute at the Free University in Berlin, Germany. [End Page x]
