Notes on Contributors
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Ahmed Idrissi Alami is an associate Professor of Arabic in the School of Languages and Cultures at Purdue University, where he teaches Arabic studies and comparative literature. His recent book Mutual ‘Othering:’ Islam, Modernity and the Politics of Cross-Cultural Encounters (SUNY Press, 2013) is a comparative study that examines constructions of modernity in European and Moroccan travel narratives. He has also published other articles on North African literature in The Journal of North African Studies, The Journal of Contemporary Thought and a forthcoming article on Abdelkarim Ghallab will be published in Middle Eastern Literatures. Currently, he works on diasporic identity in Arabic and Maghrebi literature of migration.
Melissa Bailar is Professor in the Practice of Humanities and Associate Director of the Humanities Research Center at Rice University. She teaches and writes about French film and nineteenth-century literature as well as trends and tools in digital humanities. She is currently Vice President of the South Central Modern Language Association.
Alexandra Cook is an Associate Professor of Medieval Literature at the University of Alabama. Her articles on medieval literature and philology have appeared in English Studies and Neophilologus. Professor Cook is currently working on a book on allegoresis and rhetoric in the twelfth-century ars poetriae. Her future plans include a book on southern medievalism.
Miranda Green-Barteet is an Assistant Professor at the University of Western Ontario, where she holds a joint appointment in the Department of Women’s Studies and Program in Writing, Rhetoric, and Professional Communication. She teaches courses on women writers, gender theory, and visual rhetoric. She currently has essays under review at African American Review and Early American Studies.
Matthew Kendrick is Assistant Professor of English at William Paterson University of New Jersey. His articles on early modern English literature and culture have appeared or are forthcoming in Explorations in Renaissance Culture, English Studies, and Clio. His current book project examines early modern drama and theater in relation to changing conceptions of labor and economic value.
David S. King, an Associate Professor of French at the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, devotes his scholarly attention to the moral implications of violence in medieval French literature. Recently he has focused in particular on amputation as a metaphor in twelfth- and thirteenth-century epic and romance. His most recent article in this series, “Learning from Loss: Amputation in Three Thirteenth-Century French Verse Romances,” appears in Modern Philology 110. 1 (2012): 1–23.
Nancy Lagreca is Associate Professor of Latin American Literature in the Department of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics at the University of Oklahoma. LaGreca is the author of Rewriting Womanhood: Feminism, Subjectivity, and [End Page 169] the Angel of the House in the Latin American Novel, 1887–1903 (Penn State University Press, 2009). She has published several articles on feminist and decadentista writing of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Her current book project is entitled “Modernismo and Erotic Mysticism: Subversion and Transcendence in Spanish American Prose, 1894–1922.”
Christopher L. Morrow is an Assistant Professor of English at Western Illinois University. His primary research interests are in Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama, with particular focus on nationalism, intertextuality, and adaptation. His work has appeared in Shakespeare Yearbook and This Rough Magic. His essay on Thomas Dekker’s The Shoemaker’s Holiday is forthcoming in Studies in English Literature, 1500–1900.
Melissa Percival is Senior Lecturer in French and Art History at the University of Exeter, UK. She is the author of Fragonard and the Fantasy Figure: Painting the Imagination (Ashgate, 2012) and The Appearance of Character: Physiognomy and Facial Expression in Eighteenth-Century France (MHRA, 1999). Among her current projects, she is preparing an exhibition of fantasy figures in European painting with the Musée des Augustins, Toulouse.
Geoffrey A. Wright is Associate Professor of English at Samford University, where he directs the Film Studies concentration in the English major. He has published an essay on Eudora Welty in The Southern Quarterly and several essays on American war literature and film in PMLA, Genre, and War, Literature, and the Arts. He recently founded Wide Angle: A Journal of Literature and Film, an online joint publication between Samford University students and...
