Contributors to This Issue
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Cyril Camus works as a doctoral teaching assistant at the University of Toulouse, writing a thesis on the role of myth and storytelling in popular fiction. He has published two articles, one on the relationship of landscape, fantasy, and myth in some of Gaiman’s works (in Françoise Besson et al.’s Mountains Figured and Disfigured in the English-Speaking World, Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010) and one on Alan Moore’s Swamp Thing, and the way Gaiman expanded on its sylvan mythology in his graphic novel Black Orchid (in the French journal of fantasy studies Otrante, Paris: Editions Kimé, [Fall 2010]). Cyril also took part, in May 2010, in the first ever conference on Alan Moore’s writings, “Magus,” at the University of Northampton, and his discussion of Moore’s influence on Gaiman is due to be published in the British journal Studies in Comics (Bristol: Intellect Ltd).
Lan Dong is the author of Reading Amy Tan (Greenwood, 2009), Mulan’s Legend and Legacy in China and the United States (Temple University Press, forthcoming 2010), and several articles and book chapters on Asian American literature and films, children’s literature, and popular culture. She is the editor of Transnationalism and the Asian American Heroine: Essays on Literature, Film, Myth and Media (McFarland, forthcoming 2010). She holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and is Assistant Professor of English at University of Illinois at Springfield.
Wendy Stallard Flory is Professor of English at Purdue University. She has recently completed a book manuscript, “Inside Stories: Character and Author in the Great American Romance.” Ezra Pound and The Cantos: A Record of Struggle (1980) and The American Ezra Pound (1989) are both from Yale University Press. One of her articles is “The Psychology of Antisemitism: Conscience-Free Rationalization and the Deferring of Moral Choice,” Antisemitism in the Contemporary World, ed. Michael Curtis (1986).
James Goldberg recently completed an MFA in creative nonfiction at Brigham Young University where he wrote his thesis in and about blog forms. He has [End Page vii] served on the board of the Association for Mormon Letters and is the author of numerous plays, essays, and short stories, including “Tales of Teancum Singh Rosenberg” in Mormon Artist and the award-winning play Prodigal Son in The Best of Mormonism 2009 (Curelom Books, 2009).
In 2009 Nicole Wilkes Goldberg earned an M.A. in English literature at Brigham Young University. She has presented at the Jewish American and Holocaust Literature Symposium and the North American Levinas Society. She currently divides her time between teaching English at Brigham Young University and raising her children.
Hye Su Park is a Ph.D. student in English at the Ohio State University. She studies U.S. Ethnic literature, narrative theory, and graphic narrative. She is especially interested in cognitive and rhetorical approaches to narrative theory and their applications to U.S. Ethnic literature. Her publication includes “Lost in the Gutters: Ethnic Imaginings in Adrian Tomine”s Shortcomings,” published in Image and Narrative (Vol. 11, No. 2, 2010).
Derek Parker Royal is the founder and Executive Editor of Philip Roth Studies. His essays on American literature and graphic narrative have appeared in a variety of scholarly journals. He is the editor of Philip Roth: New Perspectives on an American Author (Praeger, 2005) and the soon-to-be-published Unfinalized Moments: Essays in the Development of Contemporary Jewish American Fiction (Purdue University Press, 2011). He is currently working on two book manuscripts, The Hernandez Brothers: Conversations (University Press of Mississippi, 2011) and More Than Jewish Mischief: Narrating Subjectivity in the Later Fiction of Philip Roth.
Eli Valley’s comics appear monthly in the Forward, and have been featured in Haaretz, Gawker, and Jewcy. His art has been described as “ferociously repugnant” by Commentary, “bigoted” by American Thinker, and “hilarious” by The Comics Journal. In 2010, the spokesman for Agudath Israel linked Eli’s art to the earthquake in Haiti. The comics-music mashup event, “Eli Valley vs. The Sway Machinery in the Temple of Self Hatred,” debuted at Joe’s Pub in New York City in the Autumn of 2009. Eli is also the author of The Great...
