Contributors
- Contributors
Peter Antelyes (antelyes@vassar.edu) is an Associate Professor in the English Department at Vassar College, where he also teaches in the Jewish Studies and American Culture programs. In addition to Tales of Adventurous Enterprise: Washington Irving and the Poetics of Western Expansion (Columbia University Press, 1990), his publications include an essay on the "red hot mama" in Embodied Voices: Representing Female Vocality in Western Culture (Cambridge University Press, 1994), an essay on Jewish women in vaudeville in Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia (Jewish Women's Archive, 1997), a review essay on Irish American popular song in American Music (1998), and an essay on the Jewish Indian figure in MELUS 34.3 (2009). His current project is an anthology of American multiracial literatures.
Emily Miller Budick (emilybudick@yahoo.com) is the Ann and Joseph Edelman Professor of American Studies at Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is the author of several books, including Aharon Appelfeld's Fiction: Acknowledging the Holocaust (Indiana University Press, 2005), Blacks and Jews in Literary Conversation (Cambridge University Press, 1998), and Engendering Romance: Woman Writers and the Hawthorne Tradition (Yale University Press, 1994).
Robert Cantwell (rcantwel@email.unc.edu) is the Townsend Ludington Professor of American Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. His most recent book is If Beale Street Could Talk: Music, Community, Culture (University of Illinois Press, 2009). In addition to "American Life and the Jewish Writer," he currently teaches a graduate seminar in human rights and capability theory and an undergraduate course on another Jewish writer, Bob Dylan.
Erin G. Carlston is an Associate Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Her research concentrates on the intersections of comparative modernisms, sexuality studies, and Jewish studies. She is the author of Thinking Fascism (Stanford University Press, 1998), which examines the relationship of 1930s women intellectuals to fascism, and she has also written articles on Marcel Proust, Paul Celan, Mary Renault, and Audre Lorde, among others. Her book Double Agents, on literary responses to espionage trials involving Jews, homosexual men, and/or communists, is forthcoming in 2012 from Columbia University Press. [End Page 228]
Sarah Phillips Casteel (sarah_casteel@carleton.ca) is an Associate Professor in the Department of English and Institute of African Studies at Carleton University, where she teaches postcolonial and diaspora literatures. She is the recipient of a Polanyi prize from the Government of Ontario as well as a Horst Frenz prize from the American Comparative Literature Association. She is the author of Second Arrivals: Landscape and Belonging in Contemporary Writing of the Americas (University of Virginia Press, 2007) and the coeditor of Canada and Its Americas: Transnational Navigations (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2010). Her current book project examines how Jewishness figures in the Caribbean literary imagination.
Jill Dolan (jsdolan@princeton.edu) is the Annan Professor in English and Theater at Princeton University, where she also directs the Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies. She is the author of The Feminist Spectator as Critic (University of Michigan Press, 1988, to be reissued in a 2012 anniversary edition), Utopia in Performance (University of Michigan Press, 2005), Theatre & Sexuality (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), and many other books and essays. She won the 2011 Outstanding Teacher Award from the Association for Theatre in Higher Education. Dolan writes The Feminist Spectator blog at www.feministspectator.blogspot.com, for which she won the 2010-2011 George Jean Nathan Award for dramatic criticism.
Laura R. Fisher (laurarfisher@gmail.com) is a postdoctoral teaching fellow in the Department of English at New York University. Her essay on Americanization and cross-class contact is forthcoming in the interdisciplinary volume Contact Spaces of American Culture (LIT Verlag). Fisher's research interests include the intellectual culture of social reform and philanthropy, discourses of social mobility and cross-cultural relation, and modern American literature. Her current book project explores the intersections between social reform institutions and American literature in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries.
Dean J. Franco (francodj@wfu.edu) is Associate Professor of English at Wake Forest University. His books include Ethnic American Literature: Comparing Chicano, Jewish, and African American Writing (University of Virginia Press, 2007) and...
