Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
CALEB BECKWITH (cbwithwith@gmail.com) is a poet and editor living in Philadelphia, PA, where he studies poetics at Temple University and co-organizes the VPH reading series. He is a senior editor at The Conversant, and, for The Volta, organized the 365 Reviews project, which tried — and failed — to review a book a day for the 2014 calendar year. His recent work can be found at The Volta, Entropy and Gauss PDF.
MARSHA BRYANT (mbryant@ufl.edu) is professor of English and Distinguished Teaching Scholar at the University of Florida. Her interdisciplinary research links literature to a diversity of materials, including advertising, art, Egyptology, film, magazines, and music. Bryant’s latest book, Women’s Poetry and Popular Culture, received funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Her recent essay in the MLA’s Approaches to Teaching H.D.’s Poetry and Prose is one of several collaborations with Classical archaeologist Mary Ann Eaverly. Bryant is a three-time Teacher of the Year for UF’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
MICHAEL REID BUSK (michael.r.busk@gmail.com) recently received his PhD from the University of Southern California’s Literature and Creative Writing Program, where he was a Town and Gown Scholar and Feuchtwanger Fellow. His work has been published in Contemporary Literary Criticism, the Gettysburg Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, and other journals. He teaches at Saint Mary’s College.
MARK BYERS (mark.byers@balliol.ox.ac.uk) is a DPhil candidate in English at Balliol College, University of Oxford. His research is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. In 2013, he was an AHRC British Research Council Fellow at the John W. Kluge Center, Library of Congress.
TIM CONLEY (tconley@brocku.ca) is professor of English and comparative literature at Brock University in Canada. His most recent books include the essay collection Joyce’s Disciples Disciplined (editor, 2010) and the anthology Burning City: Poems of Metropolitan Modernity (co-editor, 2012).
BRIAN C. COONEY (cooney@gonzaga.edu) is associate professor of English at Gonzaga University. His teaching interests include Romanticism, the nineteenth century novel, the avant-garde, and contemporary poetry. He has previously published on Defoe, Dickens, Byron, and Elizabeth Gaskell. His current projects [End Page 195] include finishing The Collected Poetry of Mary Tighe for Johns Hopkins University Press and further work on the poetry of Kenneth Goldsmith.
MARGARET GREAVES (margaret.greaves@emory.edu) is a PhD candidate in English at Emory University, where she studies modern and contemporary transnational literature with a focus on poetry and poetics. Her dissertation explores how poets from Ireland and Britain represent other fringe regions of Europe, especially the former Ottoman territories, in order to interrogate their own relationship to the continent. She has published on T.S. Eliot and folksong, transatlantic Irish minstrelsy shows, and poetry written in response to the Yugoslav Wars.
LORETTA JOHNSON (ljohnson@lclark.edu) is an assistant professor with term at Lewis & Clark College. She holds a PhD in English from Columbia University where she wrote her doctoral dissertation on T.S. Eliot’s literary journal, The Criterion. Her published essays on Eliot include his collaboration in writing with Vivien Eliot, Eliot as “Metoikos” or a resident alien, and his bawdy verse. She has also published a bibliographic essay on ecocriticism and an article on history in Ralph Ellison’s Juneteenth. She reviews regularly for Choice: Reviews for Academic Libraries in the fields of modern American literature, modernism, African-American literature, and ecocriticism.
MARTIN LOCKERD (mlockerd@gmail.com) is currently pursuing a doctorate at the University of Texas at Austin. His most recent essays are “Utopia in Decay: Yeats’s Decadent Dystopias” in the Yeats Eliot Review and “Into Cleanness Leaping: Brooke, Eliot, and the Decadent Body” in the Journal of Modern Literature. Lockerd’s dissertation, Decadent Catholicism and the Making of Modernism argues for greater recognition of the late-Victorian, literary phenomenon of decadent Catholicism in the imaginative genealogy of such authors as W.B. Yeats, James Joyce, T.S. Eliot, Evelyn Waugh, and Djuna Barnes.
MAXIME D. MCKENNA (maxime.mckenna@gmail.com) is a PhD student in English at the University of Chicago. His essay on Carol Loeb...
