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Contributors
Heyward Ehrlich is Emeritus Professor of English, Rutgers Newark. His "Poe Webliography" was first published in Poe Studies in 1999 and is updated regularly online. His edition of Poe's reviews and notices in Philadelphia magazines is in preparation for the Collected Writings.
Richard Kopley, Distinguished Professor of English at Penn State DuBois and former president of the Poe Studies Association and the Nathaniel Hawthorne Society, is author of Edgar Allan Poe and the Dupin Mysteries, The Threads of the Scarlet Letter, and a variety of articles on Poe and Hawthorne. He is also editor of Poe's Pym: Critical Explorations; Prospects for the Study of American Literature, Vol. 1; and Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym; he is coeditor of the second volume of Prospects and Poe Writing/Writing Poe. He is coeditor of the journal Resources for American Literary Study.
J. Alexandra McGhee is a Ph.D. candidate in English at the University of Rochester. Her research interests include British Romanticism and the Caribbean, the Gothic in all its incarnations, horror and science fiction studies, and digital humanities/transformative technologies. Her article "The Productions of Time: Visions of Blake in the Digital Age" appeared in Romantic Circles, and she is the coeditor of Urban Monstrosities, a forthcoming collection on the fantastic cityscape. Her dissertation focuses on representations of Caribbean slavery in British art, literature, and drama.
Joseph Matthew Meyer is currently a Fulbright Lecturer at the University of Arkansas, where he also received his Ph.D. His primary field of interest is biblical hermeneutics in early American literature and culture. He has published in peer-reviewed journals on Herman Melville's "Bartleby, the Scrivener" and Benito Cereno as well as on James Joyce's Ulysses, and he is currently revising his dissertation—"The Children of Cain: Herman Melville's Use of the Abject Lineage from the Bible"—for publication. [End Page 126]
Maria Nayef is a Ph.D. candidate at Monash University (Melbourne). Her master's thesis is titled "Poe Propaganda and the Campaign of Defamation: Deconstructing the Myths of Edgar Allan Poe" (2012).
Stephen Rachman is a past president of the Poe Studies Association. He is Associate Chair for Graduate Studies in the Department of English and the Director of American Studies at Michigan State University. He is also Codirector of the new Digital Humanities and Literary Cognition Lab. His essay "Poe's Drinking, Poe's Delirium: The Privacy of Imps" appeared in a recent issue of the EAPR. He is currently completing a study of Poe titled The Jingle Man.
Christopher Rollason is an independent British scholar living in Luxembourg. He is the author of a doctoral thesis on Poe, regarding whom he has also produced numerous articles, reviews, and conference papers. He played a prominent role in the series of bicentennial conferences held in Spain in 2009, and has recently been working on aspects of the reception of Poe in Mexico. In addition, he has published on Walter Benjamin, Bob Dylan, Latin American literature, Indian writing in English, and translation studies.
Jeffrey A. Savoye is Secretary-Treasurer and Webmaster of the Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore. He is the coeditor, along with Burton R. Pollin, of the revised edition of The Collected Letters of Edgar Allan Poe (2008). He has published numerous reviews and articles related to the life and writings of Edgar Allan Poe. He is an Honorary Member of the Poe Studies Association and has received both the James Gargano and the Patrick Quinn awards.
Aspasia Stephanou, Ph.D., University of Stirling (Scotland), has published articles and chapters on vampire communities and globalization (in Global Gothic, forthcoming); on the vampire and empire (with Glennis Byron, in Transnational and Postcolonial Vampires: Dark Blood, 2012); on black metal theory (Glossator, 2012); and on blood and performance art (Journal for Cultural Research, 2011). She is a contributor to the Encyclopedia of the Gothic (2012) and the coeditor of Transgression and Its Limits (2012). Her book The Blood and Vampire Gothic will be published later this year by Palgrave Macmillan.
Johan Wijkmark teaches English literature at Karlstad University (Sweden). He received his doctorate in 2009 on the dissertation "'One of the Most Intensely Exciting Secrets': The Antarctic in American Literature, 1820-1849," which includes a chapter on Poe's "MS. Found in a Bottle" and The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym. Current research interests include fictional representations of the Antarctic and a project on the functions of violence in popular culture. [End Page 127]
