Contributors
- Contributors
Jane E. Brown is a retired academic from Warwickshire, England, now working as an independent scholar. This is her first essay in the field of periodical studies. Her main work is in the related area of Victorian book design and illustration.
Edward Brunner is a professor of modern literature at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. His publications include books on Hart Crane, W. S. Merwin, and American poetry from the postwar years. This essay is from a longer work on dissidence in newspaper "adventure" strips from the 1930s to the 1950s, portions of which have appeared in the Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies, the International Journal of Comic Art and MELUS (forthcoming).
Lucy Shelton Caswell is the founding curator of The Ohio State University Cartoon Research Library and is a professor at the university.
Hillary Chute is a Junior Fellow in literature at the Harvard Society of Fellows. She is currently working with Art Spiegelman on his book project MetaMaus. She is the co-editor of the Mfs: Modern Fiction Studies special issue on Graphic Narrative (Winter 2006). She has written on Maus in Twentieth-Century Literature, and has an article on E.L. Doctorow and Michael Chabon forthcoming in Mfs.
J. Gavin Paul is a PhD candidate in the Department of English at the University of British Columbia. His dissertation, which focuses on the history of the Shakespearean text, examines editorial efforts to engage with, and encode for, performance. His work on Shakespeare and early modern drama has been published in Literature Compass, Comitatus, and is forthcoming from The Upstart Crow.
Jenny E. Robb holds masters degrees in History and Museum Studies from Syracuse University. She served as curator of the Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco for five years, before joining The Ohio State University's Cartoon Research Library as a Visiting Assistant Curator in 2005. In 2006, Robb joined The OSU faculty as Associate Curator and Assistant Professor.
Richard Samuel West, an independent scholar, is the author of Satire on Stone, The Political Cartoons of Joseph Keppler (University of Illinois, 1988) and The San Francisco Wasp: An Illustrated History (Periodyssey Press, 2004). He was the editor and founder of Target, The Political Cartoon Quarterly (1980-1986) and the political cartoon editor of Inks (1993-1996), published by the Cartoon Research Library at Ohio State University.
