Contributors
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Jennifer Burek Pierce is assistant professor in the School of Library and Information Science at the University of Iowa. She is the author of What Adolescents Ought to Know: Sexual Health Texts in Early Twentieth-Century America (University of Massachusetts Press, 2011). Her research considers the marketing and promotion of books, as well as visual culture.
Katherine Ellison is an associate professor of English at Illinois State University. She is the author of Fatal News: Reading and Information Overload in Early Eighteenth-Century Literature (Routledge, 2006), coeditor of Digital Defoe, and director of The Island 18 Historical & Digital Literacy Project. She is currently completing a book-length rhetorical study of cryptography manuals printed during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Cynthia S. Hamilton is associate professor and head of the Department of English at Liverpool Hope University in England. This essay is part of a larger project on the way nineteenth-century reform movements in the United States used literature intended for a mass audience to influence public opinion and behavior.
Marius Hentea has completed a thesis on Henry Green at the University of Warwick. He is a research and teaching fellow at the University of Paris V (Descartes) and also teaches at New York University in Paris. His articles on modernist literature and literary theory have appeared in the Journal of Commonwealth Literature, Modern Language Quarterly, Narrative, Review of English Studies, and Studies in the Novel. His biography of Tristan Tzara is forthcoming from MIT Press.
Lise Jaillant is a Ph.D. candidate in English at the University of British Columbia, working on her dissertation on Random House and the Modern Library series. She holds degrees from Birkbeck College (University of London) and Sciences-Po Paris. Her article on the marketing of Irène [End Page 305] Némirovsky's Suite française and Hélène Berr's journal was published in Clio: A Journal of Literature, History, and the Philosophy of History (Summer 2010).
Andrew T. Kamei-Dyche is a Ph.D. candidate in Japanese history at the University of Southern California. His research interests include modern Japanese publishing, print culture, and intellectual networks. He is currently completing a dissertation on the publisher Iwanami Shoten and its role in the intellectual community of early twentieth-century Japan.
Eva Mroczek is a doctoral candidate at the Centre for the Study of Religion and the Centre for Jewish Studies, University of Toronto. Her dissertation, "Making the Psalms: Ancient Concepts of Textual Tradition in 11QPsalmsa and Related Texts," explores the way ancient Jewish communities produced, used, and imagined their sacred scriptures through the example of a collection of psalms from the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Susan Pickford is maître de conférences (senior lecturer) in French to English translation at Université Paris 13. Her research interests include the social and cultural history of translation and translators from the eighteenth century to the present day. She is also an experienced translator and member of the executive committee of the French Literary Translators' Association. Her most recent translation is Bernard Bourdin, The Theological-Political Origins of the Modern State (Catholic University of America Press, 2010).
Richard K. Popp is assistant professor in the Department of Journalism, Advertising, and Media Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwukee. His research interests are in the history of mass media, consumer culture, and popular geography. He is currently at work on a number of articles about the intersection of print and market culture in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He is also finishing a book project, "The Holiday Makers," about the cultural production of tourism advertising in American magazines.
Christina Spittel works in research management at the Australian National University and is a Visiting Fellow in the English Program at the University of New South Wales, Australian Defence Force Academy. She has a Ph.D. from the University of Freiburg on the Great War in Australian novels, and has published on Australian literary responses to war in adult [End Page 306] and children's literature, and on the teaching of Shakespeare in Germany. She has just embarked on a new project researching the publication and distribution of Australian books in socialist East Germany...
