Contributors
- Contributors
Meryl Altman is Professor of English and Women's Studies at DePauw University in Indiana.
Paula R. Backscheider is Philpott-Stevens Eminent Scholar at Auburn University. She is the author of several books and many articles. Her most recent book is Elizabeth Singer Rowe and the Development of the English Novel (2013).
Debra Barrett-Graves is Professor of English at California State University, East Bay. Among her publications are contributions to Extraordinary Women of the Medieval and Renaissance World (2000) and Elizabeth I: Always Her Own Free Woman (2003). Her article, "Edmund Spenser's Use of the Poison-Tipped Tongue in The Faerie Queene" (2005-2006), received the Robert A. Miller Memorial Award. Her most recent publication—The Emblematic Queen: Extra-Literary Representations of Early Modern Queenship—was released May 2013.
Alisa K. Braithwaite received her doctorate in English and American Literature from Harvard University in 2006. She is currently an upper-school English teacher at Milton Academy, teaching courses in contemporary world literature and creative nonfiction writing. She has published articles on teaching Caribbean literature, the Caribbean science fiction writer Nalo Hopkinson, and the cultural significance of Michelle Obama as an American fashion icon.
Gregg Camfield is Vincent Hillyer Professor of Literature at University of California, Merced. His publications include Necessary Madness: The Humor of Domesticity in Nineteenth-Century American Literature (1997), "The Sentimental and Domestic Traditions" in A Companion to American Literature (2005), "The Moral Aesthetics of Sentimentality: A Missing Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin" (1988), and "Jewett's Country of the Pointed Firs as Gossip Manual" (2002).
Susan Stanford Friedman is Virginia Woolf Professor of English and Women's Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She is the founding coeditor of Contemporary Women's Writing (2007-2012) and has published extensively on women's writing, feminist theory, modernist studies, and diaspora studies. She is the author of Psyche Reborn: The Emergence [End Page 257] of H. D. (1981), Penelope's Web: Gender, Modernity, H. D.'s Fiction (1990); and Mappings: Feminism and the Cultural Geographies of Encounter (1998). With Rita Felski, she coedited Comparison: Theories, Approaches, Uses (2013). She is at work on "Provocations: Modernist Studies for the Twenty-first Century" and "Sisters of Scheherazade: Muslim Feminisms and Women's Diasporic Writing."
Lorna Gibb is Lecturer in Creative Writing for the School of Media and Performing Arts at Middlesex University. She is the author of Lady Hester: Queen of the East (2005) and West's World: The Extraordinary Life of Dame Rebecca West (2013). She is the winner of the 2014 Granta Memoir Prize for Two Gardens (2013).
Li Guo is Assistant Professor of Chinese at Utah State University. Her interests in research include late imperial and modern Chinese women's narratives, folk literature, comparative literature, film, and performance studies. Her refereed publications include a coedited thematic issue, Asian Cultures and Globalization (2013), for CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, as well as essays in Film International, Frontiers of Literary Studies in China, and Consciousness: Literature and Arts.
Thomas F. Haddox is Professor of English at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He has published extensively on southern literature, the American novel, and the intersections of religion and literature. His most recent book is Hard Sayings: The Rhetoric of Christian Orthodoxy in Late Modern Fiction (2013).
Kathryn Holland currently teaches in the Department of English at MacEwan University. She was a 2009-2010 Fleur Cowles Fellow at the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin, and recently completed her doctorate in modernist literature and culture at the University of Oxford. Her work has been published in Modernism/Modernity, the Times Literary Supplement, and elsewhere; she was also a research associate contributing to the digital project Orlando: Women's Writing in the British Isles, from the Beginnings to the Present (2006).
Maryline Lukacher is Professor of French in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at Northern Illinois University. She has published articles on nineteenth-century French literature and French women writers. She also wrote Maternal Fictions: Stendhal, Sand, Rachilde, and Bataille (1994) and Autobiofictions: George Sand et le Conflit de l'Écriture (2008). [End Page 258]
Susana M. Morris is Associate Professor of English at Auburn...
