Contributors
- Contributors
Frederick Betz, Professor Emeritus of German, Southern Illinois University, has been serving as President of the Sinclair Lewis Society since 2001. He has published editions, commentaries, articles, and reviews in the areas of nineteenth- and twentieth-century German and American literature, journalism, and culture.
John Dudley, Associate Professor and Chair of the English Department at the University of South Dakota, is the author of A Man's Game: Masculinity and the Anti-Aesthetics of American Literary Naturalism and several articles on naturalism, African American literature, and Western American literature. He is currently working on a study of African American literature and culture between 1890 and 1928, with an emphasis on the role of music, aesthetics, and material culture in developing notions of racial identity.
Rickie-Ann Legleitner is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of English at the University of South Dakota. She specializes in American literature from 1850-1950, focusing on women writers, the politics of space, identity, art and commerce, and coming-of-age narratives.
Carol S. Loranger is Interim Associate Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio. She has published reviews and essays in Studies in American Naturalism, Dreiser Studies, Pynchon Notes, and Journal of Postmodern Culture and is a member of the organizing committee and the Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award selection committee of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize.
Jessica Schubert McCarthy currently teaches English at Washington State University. She has published essays on Frank Norris, Edith Wharton, and scholarly publishing.
Nathaniel Mills is Assistant Professor of English at California State University, Northridge. His articles have appeared in or are forthcoming in Against the Current, Journal of Modern Literature, African American Review, [End Page 133] and MELUS. He is currently researching the place of the Marxist concept of the lumpenproletariat in mid-twentieth-century African-American radical literature and political discourse.
Thomas L. Morgan is Associate Professor of English at the University of Dayton. His research focuses on the politics of narrative form and the short story in late nineteenth-century periodical culture. His published work includes essays on James Weldon Johnson, Paul Laurence Dunbar, and Richard Wright, and he edited The Complete Stories of Paul Laurence Dunbar with Gene Andrew Jarrett. His forthcoming work is on Kate Chopin and Stephen Crane, and he is currently working on a selected edition of Dunbar's correspondence.
Gina M. Rossetti is Associate Professor and Chair of English and Foreign Languages at Saint Xavier University in Chicago. Her scholarly and pedagogical work lie in American literary naturalism. Recently, she has had her work appear in The Oxford Handbook of American Literary Naturalism, she has a chapter in the forthcoming edition of Approaches to Teaching the Works of Jack London, and an article forthcoming in a special issue on Edith Wharton for The Journal of the Short Story in English.
Kecia Driver Thompson (formerly McBride) is Associate Professor of English at Ball State University, where she teaches and publishes in American fiction after 1865, narrative theory, and film studies. She is also Associate Dean of the College of Sciences and Humanities. [End Page 134]
