Contributors
- Contributors
stephen bertman is a Classicist and Professor Emeritus of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at Canada’s University of Windsor. He is the author of The Eight Pillars of Greek Wisdom and The Genesis of Science, and has also written about the unsuspected influences on the works of Defoe, Mary Shelley, Dickens, and Kipling.
enrico brandoli is a graduate of the University of Parma (Italy) with a major in literature. He has translated and reinterpreted some Poe poems into the Italian language online.
raymond disanza completed his doctoral studies at St. John’s University in Queens, New York, and is currently an Assistant Professor in the English Department at Suffolk County Community College, where he teaches courses in literature and composition. He regularly teaches Poe’s works in his Introduction to Literature course and his Short Stories course. He has written on and presented at conferences on mythology, the epic, postcolonial literature and theory, popular culture, and film adaptations.
dennis w. eddings is Emeritus Professor of Humanities at Western Oregon University. An Honorary Member of the Poe Studies Association and Life Member of the American Humor Studies Association, he has published on Poe and Twain and dabbled in Stephen Crane, Samuel Richardson, Patrick F. McManus, and MAD magazine.
heyward ehrlich, Emeritus Professor of English, Rutgers Newark, contributes the “Poe in Cyberespace” column. His “Electrifying Poe: Research and Teaching on the Internet” appeared in Poe Writing/Writing Poe. He has written on Poe’s contemporaries Charles Frederick Briggs, Evert A. Duyckinck, and George Lippard for the Collected Writings, ESQ, Modern Fiction Studies, and Modern Language Quarterly, and he is preparing an edition of Poe’s Philadelphia reviews and notices. In addition, he is vice president and webmaster of the James Joyce [End Page 276] Society, and his work on Joyce, popular culture, and early cinema has been published in Light Rays: James Joyce and Modernism, European Joyce Studies, James Joyce Quarterly, James Joyce Literary Supplement, and the Norton Critical Edition of Dubliners.
brian p. elliott is Assistant Professor of English and Director of the William G. Edwards Honors Program at Urbana University. His areas of focus include nineteenth-century American literature and Transatlantic Romanticism. He is currently working on a manuscript exploring revenge and national identity in early American frontier novels.
timothy farrant is Reader in Nineteenth-Century French Literature at the University of Oxford and Fellow and Tutor in French at Pembroke College Oxford. His publications include Balzac’s Shorter Fictions: Genesis and Genre (Oxford University Press, 2002), An Introduction to Nineteenth-Century French Literature (Duckworth, 2007), and an introduction to three novels by Jules Verne (Everyman, 2013), as well as numerous articles on nineteenth-century French literature and culture. He is currently preparing two books on nineteenth-century short fiction, funded by the University of Oxford and the Arts and Humanities Research Council.
cristina flores, Ph.D., Lecturer on English Literature and Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Letters and Education at the University of La Rioja, Spain. Her main research interests include Romantic literary theory and poetry and the connections between Romanticism and twentieth-century literature. She was visiting scholar at several European universities: University of London, University of Cambridge, and University of Edinburgh. Her Ph.D. dissertation, Plastic Intellectual Breeze: The Contribution of Ralph Cudworth to S. T. Coleridge’s Early Poetics of the Symbol (Peter Lang), was published in 2008. Since then she has been working on the reception of British and American Romantic authors in Spanish literature, and has published her work in Rodopi, Comparative Literary Criticism (Edinburgh University Press), Coleridge Bulletin, and Estudios Ingleses de la Universidad Complutense, among others. Recently she has coordinated the research project “La huella del romanticismo anglo-norteamericano en España durante el siglo XX” (The legacy of Anglo-American Romanticism in Spain during the twentieth century) (API11/07), funded by the University of La Rioja and Banco Santander.
vicki hester earned a Ph.D at the University of Louisville in rhetoric and composition with a minor in African American autobiography. She has published [End Page 277] essays on college self-directed placement and computer-based assessment in composition studies. Though her research focuses largely on composition studies, she...
