Contributors
- Contributors
Dale Bauer is professor of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She teaches American literature, pedagogy, and women’s writing. Her book Sex Expression and American Women’s Writing, 1860–1940 is forthcoming from the University of North Carolina Press.
Rebeccah Bechtold is a graduate student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign working with nineteenth-century American literature.
Mike Behrens is a PhD student in English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research interest is British women writers of the eighteenth century.
Nick Capell is a graduate student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research focuses on the relationship between the body and identity in mid-nineteenth-century American literature.
Bridget R. Cooks is currently assistant professor in both the Department of Art History and the Program in African American Studies at University of California, Irvine. She has worked at several museums around the country, including the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, the Oakland Museum, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Her recent publications have appeared in American Studies, Exposure, International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics, African American Review, International Review of African American Art, and Fotophile. She is writing a book manuscript tentatively titled “Exhibiting Blackness: Exhibitions of African American Culture in American Museums.”
Adam Deutsch is from Long Island and has lived in San Diego. He has an MA from Hofstra University (2005) and is finishing his MFA and a collection of poems at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he teaches, writes, and is assistant to the editor at Ninth Letter.
Zia Gluhbegovic is a graduate student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research interests are in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British literature.
Simon Hay is Sue and Eugene Mercy Jr. Assistant Professor in the English department at Connecticut College, where he teaches postcolonial literature and critical theory. His current book project is a political history of the English ghost story.
Marilyn Holguin is a third-year PhD student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she focuses on seventeenth- and early-eighteenthcentury British literature, and especially feminist readings of amatory fiction.
Merton Lee is graduate student instructor of English and business and technical writing at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research interests are American poetry and Lacanian psychoanalysis. He has recently published two short essays on Lucia Trent and Randall Jarrell on Cary Nelson’s Web site companion to Anthology of Modern American Poetry.
Carl Lehnen is a fourth-year graduate student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He received his BA from Truman State University in Kirksville, MO. He is currently at work on a project that examines sexuality, race, and cosmopolitanism in Victorian narratives about Italy.
Dan Mills is a PhD student at Georgia State University, where his concentration is Renaissance literature. He teaches courses at Georgia State University and Clayton State University in freshman composition, business writing, world literature, and British literature.
Megan A. Norcia is an assistant professor in the SUNY system with research interests in nineteenth-century literature and culture, Victorian children’s literature, imperialism studies, women’s studies, spatial theory, and the application of digital technology in the humanities classroom. During 2004–5, she held a Council on Library Information Resources postdoctoral fellowship, working at Lehigh University with the Digital Library Team to assist in the creation of scholarly digital projects to encourage teaching, learning, and research. Her work has appeared in Victorian Literature and Culture, Children’s Literature, Victorian Newsletter, and The Lion and the Unicorn. She is currently revising a monograph about Victorian women writers of geography primers.
Kim O’Neill is a PhD candidate in English literature at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her primary emphases are ethnic studies and twentieth-century African American and Latina/o literatures. She is also currently serving as the assistant editor for American Literary History.
Michael Pennell is assistant professor of writing and rhetoric in the College Writing Program at the University of Rhode Island. He teaches classes in business communication, research writing, and writing in electronic environments.
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