Contributors
- Contributors
Bert Bender, Professor Emeritus at Arizona State University, has published three books on American literature: Sea-Brothers: The Tradition of American Sea Fiction from Moby-Dick to the Present, The Descent of Love: Darwin and the Theory of Sexual Selection in American Fiction, 1871–1926, and Evolution and “the Sex Problem”: American Narratives during the Eclipse of Darwinism. His most recent book is an ecological memoir based on his thirty-year career as a commercial fisherman: Catching the Ebb: Drift-fishing for a Life in Cook Inlet.
Stephen C. Brennan teaches American literature at Louisiana State University in Shreveport. He has published essays on American literary naturalism in Dreiser Studies, American Literary Realism, Studies in American Fiction, and other journals and is currently working on a study of psychological themes in American naturalism. He is co-editor of Studies in American Naturalism.
Charles Johanningsmeier teaches American Literature in the English Department of the University of Nebraska at Omaha. He is the author of Fiction and the American Literary Marketplace: The Role of Newspaper Syndicates, 1860–1900 and has published a number of articles about the importance of periodical publications to American realist and naturalist authors of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He is currently working on a book about how readers responded to serialized regionalist fictions of this era.
Linda Kornasky is Professor of English at Angelo State University. She has published articles on feminist naturalism in ALN: The American Literary Naturalism Newsletter, American Literary Realism, Mississippi Quarterly, and The Ellen Glasgow Journal of Southern Women Writers.
Daniel J. Mrozowski teaches in the English Department at Trinity College. His research focuses on the rise of the corporation and its influence on American fiction in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. [End Page 224] He is currently working on a book provisionally titled “The Corporate Imagination: American Fiction and Business Culture, 1865–1917.”
Andrew Strombeck is Associate Professor of English at Wright State University. He has published essays on William Gibson, Ishmael Reed, Richard Wright, and the Christian fundamentalist Left Behind novels, and he is currently completing a manuscript entitled “Amongst Men: The Masculine Logic of Conspiracy Theory.”
Gary Totten is Associate Professor of English at North Dakota State University. He has published essays on Wharton and her contemporaries and is the editor of Memorial Boxes and Guarded Interiors: Edith Wharton and Material Culture. [End Page 225]
