Contributors
- Contributors
Tunde Adeleke is a Professor of History and Director of African American Studies at the University of Montana, Missoula. A graduate of the University of Western Ontario, he researches and teaches African American Studies and has published extensively in this field. His publications include the critically acclaimed UnAfrican American: Nineteenth-Century Black Nationalists and the Civilizing Mission (University Press of Kentucky, 1998). He has lectured and taught in several American universities, including Tulane, North Carolina State, Ohio State, and Loyola.
Brian Diemert is an Associate Professor of English at Brescia University College, where he teaches courses in American Literature and Twentieth-Century British Literature. He is the author of Graham Greene's Thrillers and the 1930s (McGill-Queen's, 1996) and has published articles in a number of journals, including Genre, Twentieth-Century Literature, Style, and Texas Studies in Literature and Language. He is currently writing a book on detective fiction and the occult.
David Heckerl is an Assistant Professor of English at Saint Mary's University, in Halifax. He is currently preparing research for a book on Lionel Trilling's conception of the 'liberal imagination' (and its nineteenth-century sources) in relation to issues raised in the political thought of Hannah Arendt, Isaiah Berlin, Michael Oakeshott, and Leo Strauss.
Kerry Mallan is an Associate Professor at Queensland University of Technology. Mallan's research and publications are predominantly in the areas of children's literature and film. She co-edited, with Sharyn Pearce, Youth Cultures: Texts, Images, and Identities (Praeger, 2003), an IRSCL Honour Book. She is currently working on a collaborative project focusing on utopian literature for children.
Roderick McGillis is Professor of English at the University of Calgary. McGillis has published extensively on children's literature and theory. His most recent publication is an edited collection titled Children's Literature and the Fin de Siècle (IRSCL Greenwood, 2003). He is currently working on a book on masculinity and the B-Western film. His forthcoming novel, in French, is Les Pieds Devant (translated by Laurent Chabin).
Daniel McNeil is a graduate student at the University of Toronto. He is currently working on his PhD dissertation—"Mixed Race Commodities: 'Marginal Men,' 'New' National Citizens, and Global Souls"—which will explore "mixed race" identities in the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States from 1920 to the present. [End Page iv]
