Contributors
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Jonathan Walker is senior research fellow in the department of history at the University of Sydney. He is the author of an illustrated biography, Pistols! Treason! Murder!: The Rise and Fall of Gerolamo Vano, Venetian General of Spies, forthcoming from Melbourne University Publishing in early 2007. He has also published numerous articles on the cultural history of early modern Venice in journals such as Past and Present and Rethinking History. His next project is a "prequel" to Pistols! entitled "Reverse Garbage." It will be told entirely in comic-strip form.
Amy Hungerford, associate professor of English at Yale University, is the author of The Holocaust of Texts: Genocide, Literature, and Personification (Chicago, 2003). She has published articles on Allen Ginsberg's use of chant, Art Spiegelman and Holocaust-centered identity, trauma theory, and teaching fiction and the Holocaust. She is at work on two book manuscripts, "Postmodern Belief: American Literature and Religion since 1960" and "The Cambridge Introduction to the American Novel, 1945-2000."
David Witzling is an independent scholar living in Los Angeles. He received his Ph.D in English from UCLA in 2003. He has taught twentieth-century comparative United States literatures at UCLA and California State University, Bakersfield. His book Everybody's America: Thomas Pynchon, Race, and the Cultures of Postmodernism is forthcoming from Routledge in 2007. He is beginning a new project on the interplay between liberalism, Christianity, and the black vernacular in the integrationist poetics of the forties, fifties, and sixties.
Christine Hume, associate professor of English at Eastern Michigan University, has published two prize-winning volumes of poetry, Musca Domestica (Beacon, 2000) and Alaskaphrenia (New Issues, 2004), and her poetry has been widely anthologized. She is the author of reviews and critical essays appearing in a number of journals and in American Women Poets in the Twenty-First Century, edited by Claudia Rankine and Juliana Spahr (Wesleyan, 2002).
Kaplan P. Harris is assistant professor of English at Bowie State University. His research centers on postwar poetry and cultural studies. Along with Peter Baker and Rod Smith, he is co-editing the selected letters of Robert Creeley for the University of California Press.
Brian McHale is Distinguished Humanities Professor in English at The Ohio State University. His books include The Obligation toward the Difficult Whole: Postmodernist Long Poems (Alabama, 2004), Constructing Postmodernism (Routledge, [End Page 523] 1992), and Postmodernist Fiction (Routledge, 1987). He is co-editor, with Randall Stevenson, of The Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-Century Literatures in English (2006). He is at work on two book manuscripts, "Elements of Postmodernist Poetry" and "What Was Postmodernism?"
Ann Keniston, assistant professor of English at the University of Nevada, Reno, is the author of Overheard Voices: Address and Subjectivity in Postmodern American Poetry (Routledge, 2006) and The Caution of Human Gestures (David Robert Books, 2005), a volume of poems. Her current project is a book on memory and belatedness in postwar American poetry. She is co-editing a collection of essays on literature after 9/11.
Loren Glass, assistant professor of English at the University of Iowa, is the author of Authors Inc.: Literary Celebrity in the Modern United States, 1880-1980 (NYU, 2004). He is completing a book manuscript titled "The End of Obscenity: Vulgar Modernism and Literary Value."
William J. Palmer, professor of English at Purdue University, has published four novels, including The Dons and Mr. Dickens (St. Martin's, 2000), and four critical books, including The Films of the Eighties: A Social History (Southern Illinois, 1993) and Dickens and New Historicism (St. Martin's, 1997). His current project is a book on contemporary film.
Rob Latham, associate professor of English, American studies, and sexuality studies at the University of Iowa, is the author of Consuming Youth: Vampires, Cyborgs, and the Culture of Consumption (Chicago, 2002). He has published widely on fantasy and science fiction and is at work on a book manuscript titled "New Waves Rising: Science Fiction and the Critique of Technological Culture."
Mark McMorris is associate professor of English at Georgetown University. His poetry volumes include Moth-Wings (Burning Deck, 1996), The Black Reeds (Georgia, 1997), The Blaze of the Poui (Georgia, 2003), and The Café at Light (Roof, 2004). He...
