Contributors
- Contributors
steve Courtney has been a journalist for thirty-eight years, largely at the Hartford Courant, and he won the 2009 Connecticut Book Award for Joseph Hopkins Twichell: The Life and Times of Mark Twain’s Closest Friend. He is also the author of “The Loveliest Home That Ever Was”: The Story of the Mark Twain House in Hartford. He coedited, with Peter Messent, The Civil War Letters of Joseph Hopkins Twichell: A Chaplain’s Story.
carolyn grattan eichin holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in history from the University of Nevada Las Vegas. While completing the course work for a Ph.D. in the history of the American West, she published articles in the Utah Historical Quarterly and Nevada Historical Society Quarterly. Her interest in Twain’s life in Nevada stems from her seventeen-year career as an adjunct faculty member for the Community College of Southern Nevada where she taught American history, Nevada history, and anthropology.
paula harrington was a 2013 Fulbright Scholar for her project on Mark Twain and the French. She lectured at universities throughout France and did research at the University of Paris 13. She is director of the Farnham Writers’ Center and assistant professor of writing at Colby College. Her articles have appeared in the minnesota review and the Mark Twain Annual; she is currently completing a book, Mark Twain and the French: The Anxiety of Culture, with Ronald Jenn.
lawrence howe, professor of English at Roosevelt University, is the author of Mark Twain and the Novel: The Double-Cross of Authority and a contributor to The Oxford Mark Twain. He is currently at work on a book on property in Mark Twain’s life and literature. His recent scholarly work in film studies includes articles on Hitchcock’s Rear Window and Chaplin’s Modern Times. He is coeditor, with Jim Caron and Ben Click, of Reframing Chaplin: A Screen Icon Through Critical Lenses. [End Page 151]
ronald jenn is a professor at Lille University (France) where he teaches and researches English–French translation, translation studies, and theory with a focus on nineteenth-century American writers. He published La Pseudo-traduction de Cervantès à Mark Twain, is guest editor of a special issue of Revue Française d’Etudes Américaines devoted to nineteenth-century transatlantic translation, and is currently working with Paula Harrington on Mark Twain and the French: The Anxiety of Culture.
horst h. kruse is professor emeritus of English and American literature and former head of American Studies at the University of Münster in Germany. His books include Mark Twain and “Life on the Mississippi” and F. Scott Fitzgerald at Work: The Making of “The Great Gatsby”.
sharon d. mccoy focuses on the complex and often disturbing interplay of race and class in essays appearing in book collections and journals such as American Literary Realism and the Mark Twain Annual; she has written extensively on the Web for Humor in America, including fiction from Jim’s perspective, “Jim’s Dilemma.” Editor of All Things Twain: An Encyclopedia of Mark Twain’s World, McCoy continues work on a book manuscript, “Nothing but Trouble: Blackface in Mark Twain’s America.”
linda a. morris is professor emerita at the University of California, Davis. Her books and articles include Gender Play in Mark Twain: Cross-Dressing and Transgression; The Life and Works of Frances Miriam Whiter: Women’s Humor in the Age of Gentility; “Good Food, Great Friends, Cold Beer in the Domestic Humor of Mary Lasswell”; and “ Domestic Manners of the Americans: A Transatlantic Phenomenon,” in Women and Comedy: History, Theory, Practice.
jarrod roark researches crime, punishment, and gender performance in nineteenth-century American literature and culture, and specifically in the works of Mark Twain and antebellum writers. He earned a Ph.D. in this field in 2013. He has taught at the University of Missouri–Kansas City, the Art Institute of Kansas City, and the Barstow School, where he currently teaches American literature and culture.
gary scharnhorst, distinguished professor emeritus of English at the University of New Mexico, is editor of American Literary Realism, editor in alternating years of the research annual American Literary Scholarship, general editor [End Page 152] of...
