Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
Jeffrey Bickerstaff received his PhD from Miami University of Ohio in 2011. He currently teaches in the Writing and Literature Department at Johnson State College and the Department of English at the Community College of Vermont. He is currently working on a book on the invention of “Middle America.”
Heather Chacòn is a doctoral candidate at the University of Kentucky whose research focuses on intersections of medicine, law, and economics in 19th century American literature and culture. She is currently completing her dissertation, entitled “A Matter of Public Duty: Medicine, Law, and Commerce in Nineteenth-Century American Literature.” Her essay “The Masquerade of Virtue and Vice: Slave Health and Redhibitory Law in the Works of George Washington Cable” is forthcoming in Literature and Medicine.
Kellie Donovan-Condron is an adjunct lecturer at Babson College, where she teaches literature courses on rebels in literature and urban literature, as well as first year writing and critical thinking. Her research interests include the urban Gothic, women’s writing — particularly that of Mary Russell Mitford, and the nineteenth-century novel. Her article on Charlotte Dacre’s Zofloya appeared in the December 2013 issue of European Romantic Review, and she is working on a book about urban Gothic at the beginning of the nineteenth century.
Norman W. Jones is Associate Professor of English at The Ohio State University. He is the author of Gay and Lesbian Historical Fiction: Sexual Mystery and Post-Secular Narrative as well as essays and reviews published in American Literature, Christianity and Literature, and Modern Fiction Studies. The co-editor of The King James Bible after 400 Years: Literary, Linguistic, and Cultural Influences, he is currently finishing a textbook on the Bible and literature. [End Page 147]
Hassan Melehy teaches French and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A Renaissance specialist, he has also published articles on critical theory and film studies. Currently he is completing a book on Jack Kerouac’s translingual and transnational poetics.
Marta S. Rivera Monclova is the founder and CEO of PhDeviate, Inc. a consultancy that seeks to address the perceived oversupply in PhDs by training and educating a variety of industries about the valuable skills and experiences that doctoral recipients bring to the workplace. Prior to founding PhDeviate, she taught at several universities in Massachusetts as well as teaching a semester at Shanghai International Studies University. The novels of Black Artemis’s formed part of the basis of Dr. Rivera’s dissertation
Colleen C. O’Brien is an associate professor of early American literature at the University of South Carolina-Upstate. She has published other work on Hopkins in American Quarterly and Legacy and is the author of Race, Romance, and Rebellion: Literatures of the Americas in the Nineteenth Century (Virginia, 2013). Her current book project compares indigenous, African American, and Jeffersonian rhetoric of agrarian freedom in the Americas. [End Page 148]
