Contributors
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Daniel Worden is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. His work has appeared in Arizona Quarterly and Modern Fiction Studies, and he is currently completing a book on masculinity, the American West, and modernism.
Bridget Harris Tsemo is Assistant Professor in the African American Studies Program and Rhetoric Department at the University of Iowa. She has completed a co-edited collection entitled From Bourgeois to Boojie: Black Middle-Class Performances with her colleague Vershawn Ashanti Young. Currently, she is completing her single-authored book titled Confronting an Unwashed America: African American Writers at the Turn of the Twentieth Century.
Sandra Wilson Smith recently completed her dissertation, “Out of Her Separate Sphere: The Action-Adventure Heroine in American Literature, 1790–1900.” She received her Ph.D. in English from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York in 2008 and is presently conducting research on early nineteenth-century cultural issues and their influence on attitudes towards gender codes and representations of female figures in adventure tales. Currently, she is a temporary Assistant Professor in the Writing Arts Department at Rowan University in New Jersey.
Wayne W. Westbrook is a retired professor who taught in the Business Department at Manchester Community College (Manchester, CT) and was Senior Lecturer in American Literature at the University of Connecticut at Hartford. He has published numerous articles in scholarly journals as well as Wall Street in the American Novel (NYU Press, 1980). He also has contributed to the “Other Voices” editorial page of Barron’s.
David T. Humphries is Assistant Professor of English at Queensborough Community College–City University of New York and the author of Different Dispatches: Journalism in American Modernist Prose. He is currently at work on a book, Mark Ups and Write Downs: Reading Culture in the Age of Ford. [End Page 165]
Darren Millar teaches English literature at John Abbot College in Montreal, and is currently researching the utopian dynamics of the western novel.
Virginia Nickles Osborne is currently ABD in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Cincinnati. Her dissertation focuses on the effects of the Cold War on southern literature and is titled “Dark and Bloody Ground: Southern Literature After the Bomb.” She has published scholarship in the North Carolina Literary Review, and her most recent article, a study of the Cold War in Dickey’s Deliverance, appeared in the James Dickey Newsletter in 2008.
Courtney George currently teaches English at Auburn University. She is also hard at work on a book-length study of the use of blues, gospel, and country music in southern women’s literature.
David A. Davis is Assistant Professor of English and Southern Studies at Mercer University in Macon, Georgia. He has published numerous essays and reviews on southern literature, and he is currently working on a book about southern modernism and editing a new version of Victor Daly’s Not Only War.
Donnie McMahand is a graduate student in English at Tulane University. His dissertation traces shifting representations of contemporary southern black subjectivity, focusing on the relationship between southern history and incidents of black rage and cultural implosion. His project also examines the struggle to affirm black identity against a precedence of internalized hatred within a selection of millennial Southern writings.
Kevin Murphy, a graduate student in English at Tulane University, is also currently a lecturer at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. His dissertation project explores the ways in which contemporary white southern authors have attempted to resist earlier formations of southern white male identities whose creations were often dependent upon racist, sexist, and homophobic ideologies. He is specifically interested in how writers after the Southern Renaissance have had to resist images of the old father in their attempts to create a textual space for queer bodies. [End Page 166]
Chanté M. Baker is a doctoral candidate in American Studies at the Graduate Institute for the Liberal Arts at Emory University. Her major research fields are twentieth-century African American literature, gender studies, and black cultural regionalism. She has presented her work at the American Literature Association and the College Language Association, and has existing and forthcoming book reviews...
