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  • Contributors

David Dowling, lecturer at the University of Iowa, is the author of Capital Letters: Authorship in the Antebellum Literary Market (2009) and The Leviathan of Print Culture: The Moby-Dick Marathon (Forthcoming, U of Iowa P, 2010). He has published articles on American literature in Leviathan, The Concord Saunterer, ATQ, College Literature, The Journal of Popular Culture, and Aethlon.

Rachel E. Hile is assistant professor in the Department of English & Linguistics at Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne, where she also serves as editor-in-chief as Rachel Hile Basset of Clio: A Journal of Literature, History, and the Philosophy of History. She is editor of Parenting and Professing: Balancing Family Work with an Academic Career and has published articles in Shakespeare and Spenser: Attractive Opposites (Manchester UP) and Spenser Studies.

Meg Jensen is Deputy Head of the School of Humanities at Kingston University in London, where she is Director of the Centre for Life Narratives and teaches both creative writing and English literature. Recent work includes a study of the novels of Virginia Woolf (in M. Schiach, ed., The Cambridge Companion to the Modernist Novel [Cambridge UP, 2007]) and her forthcoming novel Saints in Staten Island.

Sara Kippur is Assistant Professor of French in the Department of Language & Culture Studies at Trinity College, Hartford. Her research focuses on bilingualism and translation in contemporary French literature, and her recent publications on Bianciotti include: "Pour ou contre une litterature—monde: Hector Bianciotti, Silvia Caron Supervielle, and the Case of Argentina," Contemporary French and Francophore Studies (2009).

Heather Lobban-Viravong is an Assistant Professor of English at Grinnell College.

Jopi Nyman is Professor and Head of English at the University of Eastern Finland in Joensuu, Finland. He is the author of several books and essay collections in the field of Anglophone literature and culture. His most recent books include the monograph Home, Identity, and Mobility in Contemporary Diasporic Fiction (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2009) and the edited collection Post-National Enquiries: Essays on [End Page 329] Ethnic and Racial Border Crossings (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009). His current research interests deals with transcultural narratives, human-animal studies, and food narratives.

Tahneer Oksman is a PhD candidate at the Graduate Center at CUNY, as well as a Writing Fellow at Brooklyn College. Her dissertation, "Jewish American Women Writing Post-Assimilation," explores the works of Anzia Yezierska, Grace Paley, Vivian Gornick, and Aline Kominsky Crumb. Her article on Aline Kominsky Crumb's graphic memoir, Need More Love, is forthcoming in Studies in Comics.

Eugene Stelzig is author of many articles and several books on autobiography and Romantic literature, including Hermann Hesse's Fictions of the Self (1988), The Romantic Subject in Autobiography: Rousseau and Goethe (2000), and the edited collection Romantic Autobiography in England (2010). He has also published several autobiographical essays and a collection of poetry, and his monograph on Henry Crabb Robinson in Germany: A Study in Nineteenth Century Life Writing was recently published by Bucknell University Press.

Andreá N. Williams is Assistant Professor of English at The Ohio State University, where she specializes in African American and nineteenth-century American literature. She is a co-editor of the collection North Carolina Slave Narratives (2003). Williams is currently at work on a study of intraracial stratification and social class anxiety in postbellum African American fiction. [End Page 330]

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