Contributors
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Christopher Eagle is a research lecturer at the University of Western Sydney. He has been a Postdoctoral Fellow at the California Institute of Technology, as well as a visiting scholar at the Antwerp Joyce Center and the Institute of Texts and Modern Manuscripts in Paris. His articles have appeared in Modern Language Notes, James Joyce Quarterly, Milton Quarterly, Epoche: A Journal for the History of Philosophy, and Comparative Literature Studies. Currently, he is writing a book that studies the impact of speech disorders on modern literature.
Miriam Jaffe-Foger is the Assistant Director of the Writing Program at Rutgers University. She previously co-edited the Philip Roth Studies special issue “Mourning Zuckerman” with Aimee Pozorski. She is currently working on a project entitled The Death of Philip Roth and an essay on Philip Roth’s relevance as a twenty-first-century author.
Tony Fong is a doctoral candidate at The University of Toronto’s English Department, where he also teaches. His research interests include diseased male bodies in contemporary American fiction, autobiography, and ethics. He is currently completing his dissertation. Tony is also the winner of the 2010 Siegel/McDaniel Award for Graduate Student Research, a prize created by the Philip Roth Society to recognize high-quality work by graduate students in the field of Philip Roth studies.
David Gooblar received his PhD in English from University College London. His book, The Major Phases of Philip Roth, was published by Continuum in 2011, and he has written widely on Roth. He is currently working on pieces on Tobias Wolff, David Foster Wallace, and black humor in mid-century Jewish American fiction. He lives in Iowa City with his wife and daughter.
Andrew Gordon is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Florida and author of An American Dreamer: A Psychoanalytic Study of the Fiction of Norman Mailer (Associated UP, 1981), Empire of Dreams: The Science Fiction and Fantasy Films of Steven Spielberg (Rowman & Littlefield, 2007), and co-author, with Hernán Vera, of Screen Saviors: Hollywood Fictions of Whiteness (Rowan & Littlefield, 2003), as well as many essays on Jewish American authors such as Saul Bellow and Philip Roth.
Velichka D. Ivanova holds a PhD in English and Comparative Literature from the University Paris 3-Sorbonne Nouvelle, France. She is the author of Fiction, utopie, histoire, essai sur Philip Roth and Milan Kun-dera (L’Harmattan, 2010) and editor of the collection Reading Philip Roth’s American Pastoral (Presses Universitaires du Mirail, 2011). She is currently [End Page 119] working on an edited collection titled Philip Roth: Transatlantic Perspectives (Cambria Press, contracted and forthcoming).
Gurumurthy Neelakantan is a professor of English and the Rahul and Namita Gautam Chair at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. He is the author of Saul Bellow and the Modern Waste Land (Indian Publishers, 2000), in addition to articles on a range of modern and contemporary American novelists.
Aimee Pozorski is associate professor of English at Central Connecticut State University where she teaches contemporary American literature. She is the author of Roth and Trauma (Continuum, 2011), and she is currently working on an edited collection entitled Roth and Celebrity, due out with Lexington Press in 2013. She co-edited, with Miriam Jaffe Foger, a special issue of Philip Roth Studies entitled, “Mourning Zuckerman” in 2009 and is current President of the Philip Roth Society.
Donavan L. Ramon is a graduate student at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, where he specializes in African American Literature. He earned dual Bachelor’s Degrees in English and the Special Honors Curriculum from Hunter College of the City University of New York, where he was a Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow. He is preparing to write a dissertation on twentieth- and twenty-first-century narratives of racial passing.
Bill Richards lives in Vancouver, Canada with his wife and an elderly Dalmation dog. He works mainly in oil, encaustic, ink, and mixed media. To see more of Bill’s paintings and drawings, visit www.billyinthebox.com.
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Bill Richards, self portrait.
Nigel Rodenhurst is a PhD candidate and part-time lecturer at Aberystwyth University, Wales. He works on Jewish American fiction as well as postmodern American...
