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  • Contributors

Jonathan Bolton, Associate Professor of English at Auburn University, is the author of Personal Landscapes: British Poets in Egypt during the Second World War. He is currently completing a study of Irish coming-of-age narratives from Joyce to Doyle.

Matt Brim is Mellon Lecturing Fellow and Associate Director of Publications in the University Writing Program at Duke University. He works in the fields of queer theory and disability studies and can be contacted at mbrim@ duke.edu.

Jon Chatlos is an Assistant Professor of English at SUNY-Plattsburgh, where he teaches literature, composition, and film, and participates in a first-year learning community in visual culture. He has published in Romanic Review.

Nils Clausson, who received his Ph.D. from Dalhousie University, taught at several Canadian universities before coming to the University of Regina, where he has taught since 1984. He has published on Edmund Blunden, Wifred Owen, Oscar Wilde, Susan Glaspell, Benjamin Disraeli, D. H. Lawrence, G. K. Chesterton, Arthur Conan Doyle, and H. G. Wells. He is currently completing a book on Conan Doyle.

Scott Duguid is currently completing his Ph.D. dissertation on Norman Mailer, the New York intellectuals, and the aesthetics of the avant-garde at the University of Edinburgh. He has also completed studies at the University of Aberdeen and the University of Cambridge. He has published elsewhere on Norman Mailer and Andy Warhol. His work is supported by the AHRB.

Ashton Howley, a doctoral candidate at the University of Ottawa and recipient of the Social Sciences and Research Council of Canada Doctoral Fellowship, is currently completing his dissertation, entitled Studies in Mailer's Late Fiction. Howley's published essays explore the philosophical and aesthetic implications of Robert Frost's and E. E. Cummings's inheritance of the self-denying / self-relying tension in Emerson's transcendentalism. [End Page 210]

J. Michael Lennon is Emeritus V.P. for Academic Affairs and Emeritus Professor of English at Wilkes University. He has edited or written six Mailer books, including Mailer's 2003 collection, The Spooky Art: Some Thoughts on Writing, and (with Donna Pedro Lennon) Norman Mailer: Works and Days (2000), a bio-bibliography. Currently, he is editing a collection of Mailer's correspondence for Random House. Lennon serves as Mailer's archivist, one of his literary executors, and is the president of The Norman Mailer Society.

Heather Lusty is a doctoral student at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She holds a B.A. and an M.A. in European History and an M.A. in Literature, and is working on a dissertation on the cultural transitions propelled by the Great War in British literature.

Brian J. Mcdonald holds a B.A. from the University of Windsor, an M.A. from Memorial University of Newfoundland, and a Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of Edinburgh. His research interests include post-WWII British and American fiction and the relationship between imaginative literature and political philosophy. He currently lives and works in Princeton, NJ.

Jeffrey F. L. Partridge is the author of Reading Horizons: Chinese American Literature and the Emergence of the Polycultural, forthcoming from The University of Washington Press. He teaches American literature and composition in Connecticut.

Vike Martina Plock is a lecturer in the Department of English Studies at the University of Durham, England. She is currently working on her first monograph, entitled James Joyce and Modern Medical Culture.

David Rampton is Chair of the Department of English at the University of Ottawa. His has written two books on Vladimir Nabokov, edited a number of essay and short-story anthologies, and published articles on nineteenth-and twentieth-century literature. He is currently working on a study of Faulkner for Palgrave Macmillan.

James Emmett Ryan is Associate Professor of English at Auburn University, where he specializes in American studies. His essays on American literature and culture have appeared recently in American Literary History, American Quarterly, and Studies in American Fiction.

John Whalen-Bridge teaches American literature and religious studies at the National University of Singapore. He has written Political Fiction and [End Page 211] the American Self, a study of novelists' responses to American fantasies of being beyond ideology, and he is currently...

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