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Authors
Carl Abbott is a professor of urban studies and planning at Portland State University. His interest in the relationships between urban growth and regional formation in North America has been leading him to think about imaginative depictions of region in addition to the geography of railroads. His recent books are Frontiers Past and Future: Science Fiction and the American West (2006) and How Cities Won the West: Four Centuries of Urban Change in Western North America (2008). A recent essay is "Real Estate and Race: Imagining the Second Circuit of Capital in Sunbelt Cities," in Michelle Nickerson and Darren Dochuk, eds., Sunbelt Rising (2011).
Michael Boyden is an assistant professor of American studies at Ghent University College. He studied Germanic languages and literatures at the University of Leuven, where he obtained his PhD in 2006. He also studied at Queens University Belfast, the University of Edinburgh, and the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. He was a visiting scholar at Harvard in 2006-2007. Boyden is the author of Predicting the Past: The Paradoxes of American Literary History (2009). His main research interests include literary multilingualism, migration literature, self-translation, and narratology. He has published articles in Target, Comparative American Studies, American Studies/Amerikastudien, ADFL Bulletin, Meta, and Translation and Interpreting Studies. Boyden is a board member of the European Society for Translation Studies and a consultant of the Red Star Line Museum of the city of Antwerp. From 2005 until 2009, he was the editor-in-chief of the Review of International American Studies. His current research involves literary representations of European transit ports as gateways to the New World during the period from 1870 through 1930.
Christopher Gair is a senior lecturer in English and American studies and head of the Department of English Literature at the University of Glasgow, Scotland. He is the author of Complicity and Resistance in Jack London's Novels: From Naturalism to Nature (1997), The American Counterculture (2007), and The Beat Generation (2008) and editor of Beyond Boundaries: C.L.R. James and Postnational Studies (2006). He has edited editions of Stephen Crane's Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (2000) and Jack London's South Sea Tales (2002) and is editor of Symbiosis: A Journal of Transatlantic Literary and Cultural Relations.
Liselotte Vandenbussche is an assistant professor of Dutch at Ghent University College. She studied Germanic languages and literatures at Ghent University and literary theory at Leuven University. She obtained [End Page 118] her PhD in 2006 at the Center for Gender Studies with a dissertation on liberal women writers in Flemish literary and cultural journals (1870-1914). Vandenbussche is the author of Het veld der verbeelding. Vrijzinnige vrouwen in Vlaamse literaire en algemeen-culturele tijdschriften (1870-1914) (2008). It was awarded the Jozef Vercoullie Prize 1998-2006, the Provincial Prize for History 2008, and was nominated for the Frans van Cauwelaert Prize 2008. She has published in Tijdschrift voor Nederlandse Taal- en Letter-kunde, Nederlandse Letterkunde, Spiegel der Letteren and Yang and contributed to several books with articles on gender, literature, and translation in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Flanders. Vandenbussche's postdoctoral research focuses on literary translators in Flanders, 1830-1914.
Amanda Zink is a fourth-year PhD candidate in the English Department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her dissertation has the working title "Fictions of American Domesticity: Indigenous Women, White Women, and the Nation, 1850-1950." She holds an MA in English from the University of Massachusetts, Boston.
Artists
Peter Alexander (b. 1939) is a native of Los Angeles. As part of the Light and Space Movement in Southern California in the 1960s, Alexander attained prominence with translucent resin sculptures. He has since become widely admired for his paintings, including a commissioned mural for Frank Gehry's Walt Disney Concert Hall in LA. With dozens of exhibitions internationally, Alexander was the subject of a retrospective exhibition at the Orange County Museum of Art in 1999. His work is featured in many public collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Norton Simon Museum, and the Getty Museum, and was part of the Getty's ambitious Pacific Standard Time exhibit...
