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  • Contributors

Charlie Reilly is professor emeritus of English at Montgomery County Community College in Pennsylvania. Over the years he has published scores of literary interviews with major American writers, including Amiri Baraka, John Barth, Jennifer Egan, Joseph Heller, Alison Lurie, Alice McDermott, Arthur Miller, John Updike, and Kurt Vonnegut. He is working on his fourth book, "How They Wrote It."

Elizabeth Outka, associate professor of English at the University of Richmond, is the author of Consuming Traditions: Modernity, Modernism, and the Commodified Authentic (Oxford, 2009). Her current project is a book manuscript, "Haunted Modernities: War, Plague, and Magic in the Early Twentieth Century."

Anne Whitehead is senior lecturer in modern and contemporary literature at Newcastle University. Her books include Trauma Fiction (Edinburgh, 2004), Memory, in the Routledge New Critical Idioms series (2009), and W. G. Sebald: A Critical Companion, co-edited with J. J. Long (Edinburgh, 2004). She has published articles on Pat Barker, Tony Harrison, and Ted Hughes. Her work in progress is a study of the intersections between medicine and literature, with particular focus on questions of empathy.

Paul S. Hackman received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2010 and teaches for Strayer University. His previous publication is an article on F. Scott Fitzgerald and film.

Kathy Lou Schultz, assistant professor of English at the University of Memphis, has published a volume of poetry, Some Vague Wife (Atelos, 2002); a collection of prose works, Biting Midge (Belladonna, 2008); and articles on Muriel Rukeyser, Audre Lorde, and Myung Mi Kim. She is writing a book on Melvin B. Tolson, Langston Hughes, and Amiri Baraka, titled "'In the Modern Vein': The Afro-Modernist Epic and Literary History."

Susan Vanderborg is associate professor of English at the University of South Carolina. She is the author of several articles and books chapters, particularly on book art and the poetics of the book, as well as Paratextual Communities: American Avant-Garde Poetry since 1950 (Southern Illinois, 2001). Her next project is an article on human rights poetry in installation and book formats. [End Page 210]

Kelwyn Sole, professor of English at the University of Cape Town, is the author of several volumes of poetry and numerous articles on South African literature, culture, and society; on contemporary South African poetry; and on postcolonial culture and literature. His works in progress include a survey of the literature and history of Zimbabwe, with reference to the fiction of the Second Chimurenga, and critical responses to the South African poet Lesego Rampolokeng.

David James is lecturer in nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature at the University of Nottingham. He is the author of Contemporary British Fiction and the Artistry of Space: Style, Landscape, Perception (Continuum, 2008) and co-editor of New Versions of Pastoral: Post-Romantic, Modern, and Contemporary Responses to the Tradition (Fairleigh-Dickinson, 2009). He recently completed Modernist Futures, a monograph on the formal and political reanimation of modernist aesthetics in the work of contemporary American, British, and postcolonial novelists. He is the editor of The Legacies of Modernism: Historicizing Postwar and Contemporary Fiction, forthcoming from Cambridge University Press. [End Page 211]

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