Contributors
- Contributors
Frankie Allmon is a Ph.D. candidate in English at Indiana University. Her research interests are British Romanticism, with an emphasis on women Romantic poets, and Victorian poetry. She is a recipient of two departmental awards: the Keisler Award for Outstanding Teaching (given to a first-time instructor of “Introduction to College Composition” for excellence in teaching) and the William R. Riley Parker Award (for outstanding teaching by a second- or third-year associate instructor).
Janet Alsup is assistant professor of English education at Purdue University. Her research interests include critical pedagogy, teacher education, and qualitative research.
John Anderson is lecturer in English at Boston College. He has taught elective courses on the Romantics, on the modernists (as well as a class called “Keats and Stevens” that combines the two periods), on the long eighteenth century, and on women poets of the nineteenth century. In spring 2001 he will teach Gertrude Stein for the first time, a task for which he hopes Emily Dickinson has prepared him but fears that she has not.
Steve Benton is a graduate teaching assistant at the University of Illinois at Chicago. For the last two years he has worked (and argued) with Gerald Graff as Graff’s research assistant at the University of Chicago and now at UIC. For the previous nine years he taught American literature and culture and English as a second language in Spain and China. His primary interests are literary pedagogy and theory.
Kevin Binfield is associate professor of English at Murray State University, where he teaches British Romanticism, literary theory, and the humanities.
Laurel Johnson Black is assistant professor of English at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, where she teaches composition, creative writing, and sociolinguistics. She has published Between Talk and Teaching: Reconsidering the Writing Conference (1998) and has coedited a volume of essays, New Directions in Portfolio Assessment: Reflective Practice, Critical Theory, and Large-Scale Scoring (1994). An essay on creative nonfiction appears in Genre by Example: Writing What We Teach (2001), [End Page 439] edited by David Starkey, and one on teacher portfolios is forthcoming in the Journal on Excellence in College Teaching.
Karen Coats is assistant professor of English at Illinois State University, where she teaches children’s and adolescent literature. She is especially interested in helping her students, many of them future teachers, understand how children’s texts influence culture and vice versa.
Mark A. Eaton earned his Ph.D. at Boston University, where he received the Department of English’s Outstanding Teaching Fellow Award. He has taught at Oklahoma City University and is currently assistant professor of English at Azusa Pacific University, where he teaches composition, American literature, film studies, and postcolonial literature.
Allison Fraiberg is director of writing at the University of Redlands, Whitehead College, where she teaches writing, American literature, and cultural studies of the environment. Her work has appeared in College Literature, Works and Days, Postmodern Culture, and Women’s Studies. She is working on a book about writing in graduate programs across the curriculum.
Cheryl Fallon Giuliano is director of writing programs at the University of California, Los Angeles. She teaches writing at all undergraduate levels as well as in seminars in the Honors College and in the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies. She has published a book of textual criticism, Lord Byron: Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte and Don Juan VIII (and selected stanzas) (1997), in the Manuscripts of the Younger Romantics series, as well as essays on composition and Romantic poetry.
Stephen Greenblatt is Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University and associate general editor of The Norton Anthology of English Literature (2000). His most recent book is Hamlet in Purgatory (2001).
Salah D. Hassan is assistant professor of English at Michigan State University. He teaches anticolonial and postcolonial literatures and literatures of late empire.
Gray Kochhar-Lindgren teaches world literature and cultural theory at Central Michigan University, where he is also involved in the M.A. in Humanities Program for the College of Extended Learning. He has also taught in [End Page 440] Switzerland and Germany and received a teaching award from Rosemont College.
Melinda L. Kreth is assistant professor of English at Central...
