Contributors
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James D. Bloom has taught literature and writing at Muhlenberg College since 1982. He is the author of Hollywood Intellect (Lexington, 2009), Gravity Fails (Praeger, 2003), The Literary Bent (U of Pennsylvania P, 1997), Left Letters (Columbia UP, 1992) and The Stock of Available Reality (Bucknell UP, 1984). His essays and reviews have appeared in American Literary History, American Studies, Contemporary Literature, Style, the New York Times Book Review, and the Philadelphia Inquirer.
David Brauner is a Reader in English and American Literature at the University of Reading (UK), and the author of Post-War Jewish Fiction: Ambivalence, Self-Explanation and Transatlantic Connections (Palgrave/Macmillan, 2001), Philip Roth (Manchester UP, 2007) and Contemporary American Fiction (Edinburgh UP, 2010). He recently co-edited a special Lorrie Moore issue of the Journal of American Studies with Heidi MacPherson and is currently co-editing The Edinburgh Companion to Modern Jewish Fiction with Axel Staehler. His essays have appeared in a wide range of journals, including the Yearbook of English Studies, Studies in the Novel, Modern Language Review, Canadian Literature, and Studies in American Jewish Literature.
Shaun Clarkson is a PhD candidate in English at Purdue University. His research focuses primarily on the representation of memory and the mind in contemporary American fiction and has appeared in journals such as The Saul Bellow Journal, NeoAmericanist, and [Inter]sections.
Lily Corwin is assistant professor of English at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania. She writes and publishes both creative and critical work. Her essays have appeared in Studies in American Jewish Literature and the James Joyce Quarterly.
James Duban is professor of English at the University of North Texas. He has published books on Herman Melville and the philosophical backgrounds of the Henry James family. His articles appear in Journal of Speculative Philosophy, Philosophy and Literature, The Harvard Theological Review, Philological Quarterly, American Literature, The New England Quarterly, Nineteen-Century Fiction, Comparative Drama, and Philip Roth Studies, among many others.
Patrick Hayes is Fellow and Tutor in English at St John’s College, Oxford. His research focuses on ideas about culture, literary value, and biography in the post-war period, including most recently J.M. Coetzee and the Novel: Writing and Politics After Beckett (Oxford UP, 2010).
Meg King is an assistant professor at Harper College. She received her PhD from the University of Illinois at Chicago, and her dissertation was “The [End Page 109] Unattainable Manhood: Masculinity and Folk Culture in Late Twentieth-Century American Fiction.”
Nora Krug is a writer and artist whose drawings and visual narratives have appeared in publications including The New York Times, The Guardian, le Monde Diplomatique, and A Public Space, as well as in anthologies published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and Chronicle Books. She is the creator of the graphic novel, Red Riding Hood Redux and Shadow Atlas, which won a silver cube from the Art Directors Club. Krug is a recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Pollock Krasner Foundation, Fulbright and DAAD. Her work is included in the Library of Congress and has been recognized by the Society of Illustrators, American Illustration and the Art Directors Club, among other professional organizations. Her graphic biographies won gold medals from the Society of Illustrators and were included in Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s Best American Comics and Best Non-Required Reading, and her animations were featured at the Sundance Film Festival. Krug is an associate professor in the Illustration Program at Parsons The New School for Design in New York City.
Joshua B. Kotzin is assistant professor of English and Jewish Studies Coordinator at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, NY. He teaches courses in the areas of Jewish American literature, literature of the Holocaust, and creative nonfiction writing. Current work includes an essay on American Pastoral and environmentalism forthcoming in a special issue of the online journal Cercles.
Robert G. Masin has been the national sales manager for W. L. Gore (Gore-tex fabric), and a senior vice president of sales and merchandising for the Columbia Sportswear Co. After retirement, he authored Swede: Weequahic’s Gentle Giant (IUniverse, 2009), a tribute to his father, Seymour “Swede” Masin, and the inspiration for the character Seymour “Swede” Levov in Philip Roth’s...
