Contributors

Contributors David Brauner is a senior lecturer in English and American Literature. He has published widely in the fields of postwar Jewish literature, contemporary American fiction, and Holocaust fiction. His first monograph, Post-War Jewish Fiction: Ambivalence, Self-Explanation and Tranatlantic Connections was published by Palgrave in 2001 and his second, Philip Roth, was published by Manchester University Press in 2007. He is currently working on his third book, Contemporary American Fiction, to be published by Edinburgh University Press in 2009. Dan Colson is a graduate student in American literature at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. His current research seeks to recover American anarchist literature from the early part of the twentieth century and explore its impact on nonanarchist radical literature from 1900–50. Kate McLoughlin, a former barrister, is a lecturer in English literature at the University of Glasgow. She is the author of Martha Gellhorn: The War Writer in the Field and in the Text (Manchester UP, 2007) and editor of the forthcoming Cambridge Companion to War Writing. Catherine Morley is an academic fellow in the Culture of Modernism at Oxford Brookes University. She is the author of Epic Gone West: John Updike, Philip Roth and Don DeLillo (Routledge, 2008) and editor of American Thought and Culture in the 21st Century (Edinburgh, 2008). Her work has appeared in numerous edited volumes and learned journals. Bernard F. Rodgers Jr. is the Emily H. Fisher Chair in literature at Bard College at Simon’s Rock. He is the author of Philip Roth: A Bibliography (Scarecrow, 1974; 2nd edition, 1984), Philip Roth (Twayne, 1978), Voices and Visions: Selected Essays (UP of America, 2001), and of nearly one hundred articles and reviews on modern and contemporary American and European literature and culture that have appeared in journals, newspapers, and collections , or been broadcast on radio, from 1974. Derek Parker Royal is an associate professor of English and director of Liberal Studies at Texas A&M University-Commerce. He is also the executive editor of Philip Roth Studies. His essays on American literature have appeared in such journals as Contemporary Literature, Modern Fiction Studies, Shofar, Modern Drama, Critique, MELUS, Studies in the Novel, Texas Studies in Literature and Language, and Studies in American Jewish Fiction. He is the editor of Philip Roth: New Perspectives on an American Author (Praeger, 2005) and currently completing a book, More than Jewish Mischief: Narrating Subjectivity in the Later Ficiton of Philip Roth. Arthur Scherr is an assistant professor of History at Kingsborough 159 160 Philip Roth Studies Fall 2007 Community College of the City University of New York. He has written several studies on newspapers’ and magazines’ role in the early American republic , and he is currently working on a reappraisal of Jefferson’s ideas concerning such topics as New England politics, women, and students. Aliki Varvogli has a PhD in American literature from the University of East Anglia. She is currently a lecturer in English at the University of Dundee. She has published books on Paul Auster and Annie Proulx, as well as articles on Saul Bellow, Jonathan Safran Foer, Dave Eggers, Jay McInenrey, and other contemporary authors. ...