Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
Stephen Guy-Bray is Associate Professor of English at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of Homoerotic Space: The Poetics of Loss in Renaissance Literature (2002) and Loving in Verse: Poetic Influence as Erotic (2006), and of numerous book chapters and articles. He works on poetry of all periods, chiefly the Renaissance, but also twentieth-century American.
SirèNe Harb is Assistant Professor in the English Department at the American University of Beirut (Lebanon). Her research focuses on transgressive discourses of history, identity and memory in postcolonial, African-American and Arab-American Literatures. Her articles have appeared in Romance Languages Annual, On Evelyne Accad: Essays in Literature, Feminism, and Cultural Studies, and Discursive Geographies. Her annotated translation of "L'Assassinat Camouflé" by Michel Foucault and others was published in Warfare in the American Homeland.
Lisa Hinrichsen is a doctoral candidate in English at Boston University. Her dissertation, Moving Forward, Looking Past: Trauma, Fantasy and Misrecognition in Southern Literature 1930–2001, examines the roles psychological fantasy and misrecognition play in modern and contemporary Southern fiction and autobiography. She has published on Faulkner, Vietnamese-American literature and documentary film, and she is currently writing on the novels of Elizabeth Madox Roberts.
Robert M. Kirschen is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He earned his M.A. from UNLV in 2006 and received his undergraduate degree from Emory University in 2002. He specializes in modernist and postmodern literature from the United States, England, and Ireland.
Erik Mortenson is an Assistant Professor at Koç University in Istanbul, Turkey who obtained his Ph.D. from Wayne State University in Detroit. Specializing in twentieth-century American literature, he is particularly interested in the Cold War period of the 1950s. Mortenson has published extensively on the Beats, and is currently working on a project involving Sylvia Plath.
Louis A. Renza is a Professor of English and former Chair of the English Department at Dartmouth College. He has written "A White Heron" and the Question of Minor Literature, Edgar Allan Poe, Wallace Stevens, and the Poetics of American [End Page 171] Privacy, and co-edited The Irish Stories of Sarah Orne Jewett. He has also published articles on autobiography, and nineteenth-century and twentieth-century works by various American writers.
Don Riggs studied myth at Dickinson College, going on to earn an M.A. and Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at UNC-Chapel Hill and an M.A. in English/ Creative Writing at Temple University. He currently teaches composition, creative writing, and science fiction at Drexel University in Philadelphia. He co-translated (with Jerome P. Seaton) Chinese Poetic Writing (Indiana, 1982), has published three chapbooks and his poems have appeared in The Painted Bride Quarterly, xib, ixnay, and 2001: A Science Fiction Poetry Anthology. He co-edited (with Judith Kerman) and contributed to Uncommonplaces: Poems of the Fantastic. His column "My Life in Poetry" appears online at http://drexel.edu/academics/coas/ask/poetry/.
Doreen Alvarez Saar is Professor of English at Drexel University and American Literature editor of the Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature. While she publishes primarily on eighteenth-century America with an emphasis on race and gender, she is a devoted fan of detective and mystery fiction.
Josh Schneiderman is a doctoral student in the CUNY Graduate Center's English program. He holds a B.A. from La Salle University and an M.A. from the University of Georgia and has research interests in international modernism, twentieth-century American literature, and the New American Poetry.
Fred Siegel is a performer and scholar of American popular performance who earned his Ph.D. in the Department of Performance Studies at New York University in 1993. He is currently the Associate Director of Drexel University's Freshman Writing Program.
Kelley Wagers is an Assistant Professor of English at Penn State Worthington Scranton. Her current research explores relationships between historiography and literary modernism in early twentieth-century American writing. Her essay on W.E.B. Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk was recently published in Arizona Quarterly.
Christopher T. White is currently completing his dissertation on animal discourse in American modernism at Penn State...
