Contributors
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Ross Alloway completed his PhD at the University of Edinburgh on the topic of F. R. Leavis and the publishing market, which will be published by Ashgate in 2009 as The Leavises and the Marketplace: The Economics of Literary Criticism. After completing his PhD he held a two-year AHRC research post as editorial assistant for The Edinburgh History of the Book in Scotland, vol. 3, Industry and Ambition 1800–1880, ed. Bill Bell (Edinburgh University Press, 2007), to which he contributed. In 2006 he received a three-year British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship to work on the diaries of the nineteenth-century publisher Robert Cadell. He has published on the history of the book and is associate director for the Scottish Book Trade Archive Inventory (http://www.hss.ed.ac.uk/chb/ sbtai.htm).
Janice Cavell is an adjunct research professor of history at Carleton University. She is the author of Tracing the Connected Narrative: Arctic Exploration in British Print Culture, 1818–1860 (University of Toronto Press, 2008). She has published articles in journals including the Canadian Historical Review, the Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, and Polar Record, and in the collection Canadas of the Mind, edited by Norman Hillmer and Adam Chapnick (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2007).
Matt Cohen is an assistant professor in the Department of English at Duke University. He is the author of several articles in the field of book history and of Native Audiences: Communicating in Early New England (University of Minnesota Press, forthcoming). He is the editor of Brother Men: The Correspondence of Edgar Rice Burroughs and Herbert T.Weston (Duke University Press, 2005) and a contributing editor at the online Walt Whitman Archive.
David Faflik is an assistant professor in the Department of American Culture and Literature at Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey. A specialist on the city in literature, he currently is completing his first book project, titled "Boarding Out: Inhabiting the American Urban Literary Imagination, 1840–1860," which addresses U.S. writers' response to the problems [End Page 325] of metropolitan habitation during the middle decades of the nineteenth century. He also is the editor of Thomas Butler Gunn's The Physiology of New York Boarding-Houses (1857; critical reprint edition Rutgers University Press, 2008).
Robert Franciosi is Professor of English and Honors at Grand Valley State University. He edited Elie Wiesel: Conversations (University Press of Mississippi, 2002) and has published articles and chapters on a range of Holocaust texts. His article is part of a book manuscript in progress, "Imagining The Ghetto: John Hersey's The Wall and American Holocaust Memory."
Nicole Howard is an assistant professor of history at California State University, East Bay, and the author of The Book: The Life Story of a Technology (Greenwood Press, 2005). Her research centers on the intersection of early modern science and print culture.
Lize Kriel teaches African history and cultural history at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. She is interested in missionary writings and publications for what they reveal about understandings of gender, race, and religion in colonial encounters.
Mary A. Nicholas is an associate professor of Russian language and literature at Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. She has published widely on Russian prose of the 1920s and 1930s and on poetry of the late Soviet period. She is currently at work on a project devoted to the role of text in Russian visual art of the late Soviet and early post-Soviet period.
Joanne Filippone Overty, a PhD candidate in the Department of History at Fordham University, is currently working on her dissertation examining fifteenth-century monastic choir book production in Northern Italy. She received a BA in Economics from New York University and an MA in Medieval Studies from Fordham University. She and her husband, Darren, own Clouds Hill Books, a rare book and manuscript company in Manhattan's West Village.
Cynthia A. Ruder is an associate professor of Russian language and literature at the University of Kentucky. Her work includes publications on Soviet literature in the 1930s and on Russian language pedagogy. Her current project examines the notions of space and place in connection with the construction of the Moscow Canal, 1932–37. [End...
