Contributors
- Contributors
John Dudley is Associate Professor of English at the University of South Dakota. He is the author of A Man's Game: Masculinity and the Anti-Aesthetics of American Literary Naturalism (2004) and is currently working on a study of African American literature and culture between 1890 and 1928, with an emphasis on the role of material culture in developing notions of racial identity.
Cara Erdheim is completing her Ph.D. in American Literature at Fordham University. Her dissertation, "The Greening of American Naturalism, is the first extended eco-critical study of Theodore Dreiser, Jack London, Frank Norris, Ann Petry Upton Sinclair, and Richard Wright.
Katherine Fusco is Senior Lecturer in English at Vanderbilt University, where she teaches classes on modernism, realism, naturalism, working-class studies, and silent film. She is currently working on a book project that argues narrative innovations in the works of naturalist novelists and silent filmmakers, including Frank Norris, Jack London, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the Lumière Brothers, and D.W. Griffith, derive from cultural anxieties about time.
Deanna Paoli Gumina is a native San Franciscan who has published articles in California History, Pacific Historian, and the Journal of San Francisco History. Her first book, The Italians of San Francisco 1850–1930 (1980), presented in a side-by-side page bilingual format, is a comprehensive study of the economic and social development of one of the largest immigrant groups to settle in San Francisco and California. She is also the author of the biography of Kathleen Norris, A Woman of Certain Importance (2004). Dr. Gumina is a psychologist in private practice in San Francisco specializing in learning disabilities.
Kevin J. Hayes, Professor of English at the University of Central Oklahoma, is the author of several books, including The Road to Monticello: The Life and Mind of Thomas Jefferson (2008) and Edgar Allan Poe (2009). [End Page 94]
Dennis Loranger teaches music theory, music theater, film music, literature, and popular culture at Wright State University.
Tracy Lemaster is a doctoral candidate in English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her dissertation, "The Mad Girl in the Clinic: Girlhood, Narrative Self-Invention, and Madness," is on how the field of Girlhood Studies revisions feminist conceptions of the woman writer to include authorial preoccupation with girlhood creativity and girls' creative trauma. Her essays have appeared in Genders, Atenea, TRANS, and the Atlantic Literary Review.
Rebecca Nisetich is a doctoral candidate at the University of Connecticut, Storrs. She specializes in race and identity in 20th century American Literature, with a particular focus on African American literature. Her essay, "From Shadowy Anguish to 'The Million Lights of the Sun': Racial Iconography in Kate Chopin's The Awakening," was published in Kate Chopin in the Twenty-First Century (2008).
Masaya Takeuchi is a doctoral candidate in English at Kent State University. His dissertation, "Homosociality and Masculinity in American Modernist Novels," examines novels by Faulkner, Wright, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Haruki Murakami. He has previously published essays on Faulkner. [End Page 95]
