Contributors
- Contributors
Bart Beaty is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Communication and Culture at the University of Calgary. His essays on comic books have appeared in Essays on Canadian Writing, The International Journal of Comic Art, and The Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada, among others. He writes a regular column on European comic books for The Comics Journal.
James D. Bloom teaches literature and American Studies at Muhlenberg College, where he chairs the English Department. He is the author of four books: Gravity Fails (2003), The Literary Bent (1997), Left Letters (1992), and The Stock of Available Reality (1984). His shorter works have appeared in American Literary History, American Studies, Contemporary Literature, Style, the New York Times, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and other publications.
David Buchbinder holds the Chair in Masculinities Studies in the Department of Communication and Cultural Studies at Curtin University of Technology in Perth, Western Australia, where he teaches in the areas of literary and cultural studies. Focusing on the cultural representations, across various genres and media, of men, masculinities, and male sexualities, he has published Masculinities and Identities (1994) and Performance Anxieties: Re-presenting Men (1998), as well as numerous articles in this field.
Michael H. Epp is a Province of Alberta graduate fellow in the English Department at the University of Alberta. In addition to revising the final draft of his dissertation on the nineteenth-century U.S. humour industry, he is developing a new project on the intersection of literature and performance in lyceum culture.
David Brian Howard is Associate Professor of Art History at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University. He has published numerous articles on the history, politics, and theory of modernism in the United States and Canada after World War II and curated a critical retrospective exhibition on the Canadian modernist painter Arthur F. McKay.
Jordan Stouck teaches in Alberta. She has published several essays and reviews and is currently working on a book-length manuscript titled “Gendering the Creole.” [End Page 1]
