Contributors
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Barbara C. Ewell is the Dorothy H. Brown Distinguished Professor of English at Loyola University New Orleans. Best known for her work on Kate Chopin, she co-authored with Pamela Glenn Menke Southern Local Color: Stories of Region, Race and Gender (U of Georgia P, 2002). Her first published essay, on John Barth, appeared in SLJ in 1973.
Pamela Glenn Menke is Associate Provost at Miami Dade College. For many years, she served as Professor of English, and eventually as Vice President of Academic Affairs, at Regis College in Weston, MA. In addition to work on Kate Chopin and co-authoring Southern Local Color: Stories of Region, Race and Gender, she has published on Alice Dunbar Nelson, Zora Neale Hurston, George Washington Cable, and Walter Hines Page.
Lynn R. Johnson is Assistant Professor and Chair of the Africana Studies Department at Dickinson College. Her research focuses on African American literature and African aesthetics. She is currently completing a manuscript which explores the Middle Passage as metaphor in 19th-century African American literature.
Travis Montgomery is an English instructor at the University of Mississippi. A specialist in American literature, he has published articles on William Gilmore Simms and Willa Cather.
Abdul-Razzak Al-Barhow completed a Ph.D. in literature at the University of Essex, England in 2008. Since then he has been a U.S. literature lecturer at the University of Aleppo, Syria.
James A. Crank is Assistant Professor of American literature and Director of Undergraduate Studies at Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana. His articles have appeared in The Mississippi Quarterly as well as the collections Agee Agonistes: Essays on the Life, Legend, and Works of James Agee (U of Tennessee P, 2007) and Agee at 100 (U of Tennessee P, 2010). He is currently editing The Morning Watch and Collected Short Prose of James Agee (U of Tennessee P, 2012). [End Page 153]
Jeffrey Bilbro is a Ph.D. student at Baylor University. He has an essay on Wendell Berry forthcoming in Mississippi Quarterly and an interview with Gary Snyder forthcoming in ISLE. His dissertation explores how American writers—particularly Thoreau, Muir, and Cather—posit differing environmental ethics based on their respective religious beliefs.
For the past four years, Raphaël Lambert has worked as an assistant professor in the department of Literature and Linguistics at the University of Tsukuba, Japan, where he teaches film studies as well as African American literature and culture. His current research focuses on representations of the transatlantic slave trade in the arts. He has recently published "Alice Walker's The Color Purple: Womanist Folk Tale and Capitalist Fairy Tale" in Dialogue 5: Alice Walker's The Color Purple (Rodopi 2009) and "Walter Mosley's Devil in a Blue Dress: The Reforming Spirit of Neo-Noir" in Detective Fiction in a Postcolonial and Transnational World (Ashgate 2009).
Peter Schmidt teaches U.S. literature at Swarthmore College, specializing in fiction and poetry from the Civil War to the present. He has published a book on William Carlos Williams's poetry and experimental prose and another on Eudora Welty's short stories, as well as co-editing (with Amritjit Singh) the anthology Postcolonial Theory and the U.S.: Race, Ethnicity, and Literature (UP of Mississippi, 2001). His most recent book, also from Mississippi, is Sitting in Darkness: New South Fiction, Education, and the Rise of Jim Crow Colonialism, 1865–1920.
Minrose Gwin, Kenan Eminent Professor of English, teaches courses at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in contemporary fiction and memoir, women's literature, literature of the U.S. South, and memory studies. She is the author of a novel, The Queen of Palmyra, and a memoir, Wishing for Snow. Her scholarly books are The Woman in the Red Dress: Gender, Space, and Reading; The Feminine and Faulkner: Reading (Beyond) Sexual Difference; and Black and White Women of the Old South: the Peculiar Sisterhood in American Literature. She edited A Woman's Civil War by Cornelia McDonald, and is a coeditor of the Norton anthology The Literature of the American South and The Southern Literary Journal. She is currently working on a book about the writing surrounding the 1963 assassination of Mississippi...
