Contributors
- Contributors
Brenda Marie Osbey is an author of poetry and prose nonfiction in English and French. The first peer-selected poet laureate of Louisiana (2005-2007), Osbey is a native New Orleanian and currently teaches at Louisiana State University.
Anne E. Boyd is Associate Professor of English and Women's Studies at the University of New Orleans, where she teaches courses in nineteenth-century American literature, women's travel literature, environmental literature, and international realism. She is the author of Writing for Immortality: Women and the Emergence of High Literary Culture in America (Johns Hopkins UP, 2004) and the editor of Wielding the Pen: Writings on Authorship by American Women of the Nineteenth Century (Johns Hopkins UP, 2009). She is currently working on a literary and cultural biography of Constance Fenimore Woolson.
Jeremey Cagle is Assistant Professor of English at LaGuardia Community College in Queens, NYC. His articles have appeared in The Mississippi Quarterly and The Edgar Allan Poe Review. He writes a blog about visiting New York City's landmarks and special places <http://clapforbacon.blogspot.com> and is currently working on a manuscript that reconsiders the legacy of game theory in postmodern American fiction.
David A. Davis is Assistant Professor of English and Southern Studies at Mercer University in Macon, Georgia. He has published more than a dozen essays in journals including African American Review, Mississippi Quarterly, and Mosaic, and he has recently published new editions of Victor Daly's Not Only War and John L. Spivak's Georgia Nigger. He is currently writing a book about World War I and southern modernism and co-editing a collection of essays of southern literature and foodways.
David Yost is a Ph.D. candidate at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee specializing in creative writing. His fiction has appeared in The Southern Review, The Sun, Witness, and Pleiades, and he is a co-editor of Dispatches from the Classroom: Graduate Students on Creative Writing Pedagogy, forthcoming from Continuum. [End Page 152]
Adrienne Akins will receive her Ph.D. in English from Baylor University in May 2011 and will begin teaching as Assistant Professor of English at Mars Hill College in Mars Hill, North Carolina, in August 2011. Her articles on twentieth-century American literature have appeared or are forthcoming in Mississippi Quarterly, Southern Quarterly, Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, Eudora Welty Review, Journal of the Short Story in English, Notes on Contemporary Literature, and other publications.
Terrence Tucker is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Arkansas. His work focuses on African-American literature, particularly works from World War II to the present. His teaching and research interests center around African-American literature and drama, American drama, twentieth and twenty-first century American literature, and popular culture. He has published articles on African-American detective writer Walter Mosley, Black Superheroes, the television series The Boondocks, and race and pedagogy. His book, Furiously Funny: Comic Rage in Late 20th Century African-American Literature, is currently under review.
Sarah Mahurin Mutter is presently completing her Ph.D. in English at Yale University; her dissertation attends to ideas of migration and betweenness in modern American fiction. She has previously published articles in The Arizona Quarterly and American Literary Realism.
Andrew Silver is Page Morton Hunter Associate Professor of English at Mercer University. He is the author of Minstrelsy and Murder: The Crisis of Southern Humor, 1835-1925 (LSU Press, 2006). [End Page 153]
