Contributors
- Contributors
Frederick Betz, Professor Emeritus of German, Southern Illinois University, has been serving as President of the Sinclair Lewis Society since 2001. He has published editions, commentaries, articles, and reviews in the areas of nineteenth and twentieth century German and American literature, journalism, and culture.
Dan Colson is a Ph.D. candidate in American literature at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. His current research focuses on anarchism, liberalism, and the novel.
Jon Falsarella Dawson is a doctoral candidate at the University of Georgia. He is currently researching his dissertation on Frank Norris, Jack London, and John Steinbeck. He presented an earlier version of this article at the ALA Symposium on American Fiction in October 2008.
J. Michael Duvall is Assistant Professor of English at the College of Charleston, where he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in late nineteenth and early twentieth century American literature. His recent essays include an analysis of representations of racial heredity in turn-of-the-twentieth-century American fiction, co-authored with Julie Cary Nerad, and an reading of waste and wasting in Edith Wharton's House of Mirth.
Florian Freitag has studied American and French literature at the University of Konstanz (Germany), Yale University, and the University of British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada). He is currently finishing his Ph.D. program at the University of Konstanz with a thesis entitled "The Farm Novel in North America: A Comparative North American Approach." Freitag has published articles on the farm novel in American and Canadian literatures as well as on settlers' accounts in English.
Katherine Fusco is a Senior Lecturer at Vanderbilt University. She has published essays on anti-modernism in the novels of Frank Norris, Charlotte Perkins Gilman's engagement with discourses of factory efficiency, and teaching working-class studies at an elite institution. She is currently [End Page 186] working on a manuscript tentatively titled "Plot Against Character: The Dominance of Time and Rise of Narration in Silent Film and American Naturalism."
Carol Loranger is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of English Language and Literatures at Wright State University, in Dayton, Ohio, and is a member of the governing committee for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. Her scholarship has focused on such writers as William S. Burroughs, Thomas Pynchon, and Theodore Dreiser. Her recent essay on the popular reception of some naturalist writings will appear in the Oxford Handbook of American Literary Naturalism.
Paul Petrovic is a Ph.D. student in American Film and Literature at Northern Illinois University. He has work published or forthcoming in the journals Extrapolation, Black Ball: A Negro Leagues Journal, and ImageTexT: Interdisciplinary Comics Studies. Other interests include the representation of gender and sexuality in film and graphic narratives, as well as the intersections between capitalism and national trauma in American literature and contemporary Asian cinema. [End Page 187]
