Contributors
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Authors
Robert Bennett is an assistant professor of English at Montana State University. He is the author of Deconstructing Post-WWII New York City: The Literature, Art, Jazz, and Architecture of an Emerging Global Capital, an interdisciplinary analysis of the urban space and urban culture of post-World War II New York City.
Neil Campbell is a professor of American studies and the research manager at the University of Derby, UK. He has published widely in American studies, including the books American Cultural Studies (with Alasdair Kean), American Youth Cultures (as editor), Issues on Americanisation and Culture, Land and Identity, and Photocinema (as coeditor). He has published articles and chapters on John Sayles, Terrence Malick, Robert Frank, J. B. Jackson, D. J. Waldie, Wim Wenders, and others. His current research project is an interdisciplinary trilogy on the contemporary American West: The Cultures of the American New West (2000), The Rhizomatic West (2008), and he is working on the final part, Post-Westerns, on the cinematic representation of the New West.
Tim Foster is a third-year PhD candidate in the School of American and Canadian Studies, University of Nottingham. His thesis has the working title of Escaping the Split-Level Trap: Postsuburban Narratives in Contemporary American Fiction. Foster holds an MA in United States studies from the University of London and a BA (Hons.) in American Studies from the University of Nottingham.
Jo Gill is a senior lecturer in twentieth-century literature at the University of Exeter, UK. She is the author of Anne Sexton's Confessional Poetics (2007), Women's Poetry (2007), and The Cambridge Introduction to Sylvia Plath (2008). She is currently completing a new book on The Poetics of the American Suburbs.
Artists
William A. Garnett discovered aerial photography during a cross-country flight returning from World War II. In 1947, Garnett bought his first small plane, taking his photography skills—and the art of landscape photography—to new heights. He gained public attention in 1954 when Fortune magazine published a portfolio of his images. His photographs of the organic and disorienting abstract patterns in the US landscape earned Garnett three Guggenheim Awards and a professorship at the University of California Berkeley, where he served as the chair of the department of design until he retired in 1984. Garnett's images, including his frequently referenced Lakewood series, have been exhibited or sold in over 200 museums and galleries around the world. He died in 2006 in Napa, California, where he had moved in 1958 to escape the growing sprawl of his hometown, Pasadena.
