Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
Andrea Adolph is an Assistant Professor of English and Coordinator of Service-Learning at the Stark Campus of Kent State University. She has published articles on modern and contemporary British women writers including Virginia Woolf and Helen Dunmore. Her current work-in-progress delves into intersections of food rationing and female desire in the literature of World War II.
Roy Benjamin received his Ph.D. at the CUNY Graduate Center. His dissertation is entitled "The Triptych Vision: Joyce and Peirce" and in it he applies the ideas of Charles Sanders Peirce to Finnegans Wake. He has also edited a book of poetry entitled Ireland: a Celebration in Verse. Currently he is teaching English at the Borough of Manhattan Community College.
David Ben-Merre is currently completing his dissertation, entitled Metalepsis and Modernist Poetry, at Brown University. He has taught classes there on poetry, James Joyce, and writing, and he is currently teaching at the College of Letters at Wesleyan University. He has published on Lord Byron, Isaac Nathan and Jewish Orientalism, and has an article forthcoming on James Joyce and Albert Einstein. He is currently "wearing out the carpet with his shoes," working on Wallace Stevens and aesthetics, and James Merrill and rhetoric.
Bridget Chalk is a doctoral candidate in English and American Literature at Brandeis University. She received her B.A. from Villanova University. Her work on Lawrence in this issue is part of a larger dissertation project that examines the effects of the passport system on the negotiation of identity in modernist narrative.
Abigail Dennis graduated from the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, in 2005 (B.A. Hons I, University Medal), and has recently completed a Masters thesis on appetite and performance in Neo-Victorian fiction by Angela Carter, Sarah Waters and Peter Ackroyd, also at the University of Queensland. She was the 2007 recipient of the A.E.E. Pearse Prize, and has published or has publications forthcoming in The Australasian Journal of Victorian Studies, Peer English (UK), Neo-Victorian Studies (UK) and Studies in Popular Culture (US). Her research interests lie in nineteenth-century and contemporary British literature; gender studies; historiography and historiographic fiction; women's literature at [End Page 152] the fin-de-siècle; and representations of food and appetite in nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature.
Benjamin Keatinge is a Lecturer in English literature at the South Eastern European University, Macedonia. He obtained his doctorate on Samuel Beckett and mental illness from Trinity College Dublin in 2005. His research interests include Beckett and Irish Modernism and he is currently co-editing a volume of critical essays on Brian Coffey forthcoming from Irish Academic Press.
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.
Martin Munro is Senior Lecturer in French and Francophone Studies at University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago. He is the author of Shaping and Reshaping the Caribbean (2000) and Exile and Post-1946 Haitian Literature (2007). He is co-editor of Reinterpreting the Haitian Revolution and its Cultural Aftershocks (2006), and is a member of the Small Axe editorial collective.
Roberta Rubenstein is Professor of Literature at American University, where she teaches courses on Modernism, literature by women and feminist theory. She is the author of three books—The Novelistic Vision of Doris Lessing: Breaking the Forms of Consciousness (1979); Boundaries of the Self: Gender, Culture, Fiction (1987); Home Matters: Longing and Belonging, Nostalgia and Mourning in Women's Fiction (2001)—and more than thirty essays and book chapters on modern and contemporary writers, including Virginia Woolf, Shirley Jackson, Doris Lessing, Margaret Atwood, John Fowles, Margaret Drabble, Toni Morrison, Angela Carter, Barbara Kingsolver, Paul Auster and Fay Weldon. She is currently completing a book on Virginia Woolf and Russian literature.
Lorraine Sim is Lecturer in Literature and Film at the University of Ballarat in Victoria, Australia. She is the author of several articles on modernism, women's studies, and the ordinary and everyday, and...
