Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
Julia Bloch (jbloch@bard.edu) is an assistant professor of literature at Bard College in Delano, CA, where she teaches in the master of arts in teaching program. She also serves as co-editor of the poetics journal Jacket2. She received a BA in political philosophy at Carleton College, an MFA in poetry at Mills College, and a PhD in English at the University of Pennsylvania, where she was a coordinator of the Modernism and Twentieth Century Studies Group. Her research interests include postwar American poetry, sound studies and gender.
Celia Carlson (Celia.Carlson@mhcc.edu) is an instructor of literature and composition at Mt. Hood Community College. She completed her PhD dissertation at UC Berkeley. She has published scholarly essays on William Carlos Williams and on the concept of lyric poems as objects, in addition to publishing poetry. She is presently working on a book-length manuscript on the idea of presentation in modern poetry as it relates to the concepts of identification and trauma. She is also working on a volume of poetry.
Helen Onhoon Choi (ohchoi@notes.cc.sunysb.edu) is an assistant professor of English at Stony Brook University. Her research interests include the examination of the intersections between ethnography, technology, and literature in twentieth-century U.S. She is currently completing a book project titled Vox Pop Modernism.
Katherine Ebury (katherine.ebury@gmail.com) is a PhD student at the University of York, UK. Her thesis, provisionally entitled "Absurd Lights: Early Twentieth Century Cosmology and the Modernist Universe," deals with astronomy and cosmology in the work of Yeats, Joyce and Beckett. Her article "Beyond the Rainbow: Spectroscopy in Finnegans Wake II.1" recently appeared in Joyce Studies Annual.
Elizabeth Gregory (Elizabeth.Gregory@mail.uh.edu) is professor of English and director of the Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Program at the University of Houston. Her publications on poetry include: Quotation and Modern American Poetry: "'Imaginary Gardens with Real Toads,'" The Critical Response to Marianne Moore (ed.), and articles on modernism, confessional poetry and Homer's heroines. She is at work on a book about Moore's later career. Her most recent book, Ready: Why Women Are Embracing the New Later Motherhood (Basic Books, 2007), examines the causes and effects of the recent global trend to later motherhood. [End Page 200]
Julius Lobo (lobo3428@gmail.com) is a visiting affiliate assistant professor at Loyola University Maryland with research and teaching interests in twentieth century American poetry, documentary poetics and the Black Arts Movement. He is currently working on a book project on American documentary poetics from the Depression through World War II.
Václav Paris (vaclavparis@gmail.com) is a doctoral student at the University of Pennsylvania, where he is currently teaching a course on avant-garde poetry and citation. He has an MPhil from Cambridge University and a BA from University College London. The dominant areas of his research are modernism, intertextuality and the visual arts. He is a translator and author of several reviews, as well as a forthcoming article in the James Joyce Quarterly.
Poet-Scholar KATHY LOU SCHULTZ (klschltz@memphis.edu) is the author of Biting Midge: Works in Prose (Belladonna, 2008) and Some Vague Wife (Atelos, 2002). Her article, "To Save and Destroy: Melvin B. Tolson, Langston Hughes, and Theories of the Archive," appears in Contemporary Literature 52.1 (Spring 2011). Her critical and creative work is also published in Building is a Process / Light is an Element: Essays and Excursions for Myung Mi Kim (SUNY Buffalo), Efforts and Affections: Women Poets on Mentorship (U of Iowa P, 2008), and Rainbow Darkness: An Anthology of African American Poetry (Miami U Press, 2005). Author of the forthcoming monograph, The Afro-Modernist Epic and Literary History: Tolson, Hughes, Baraka (Palgrave Macmillan, October 2012), Schultz is an assistant professor of English at the University of Memphis.
Rachel Trousdale (rtrousdale@agnesscott.edu) is an associate professor of English at Agnes Scott College in Decatur, GA. She is author of Nabokov, Rushdie, and the Transnational Imagination (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010) and is now working on a book on humor in twentieth-century American poetry. Her poems have appeared in The Atlanta Review and Literary...
