Contributors
- Contributors
Mariana Abuan is a lecturer for the Merritt Writing Program at the University of California, Merced. She teaches courses in writing, composition, and critical thinking. Her current research is on making the teaching of and use of assessment practices a foundation of the strategic vision of UC Merced.
David M. Ball is associate professor of English at Dickinson College, where he teaches American literature and culture. He is the author of False Starts: The Rhetoric of Failure and the Making of American Modernism (forthcoming) and coeditor, with Martha B. Kuhlman, of The Comics of Chris Ware: Drawing Is a Way of Thinking (2010). His essays and reviews have appeared in Modern Fiction Studies, College Literature, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and Artforum. He is currently at work on a book exploring the intersections of comics and literary and artistic modernism.
Miriam Bartha is director of graduate programs in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at the University of Washington Bothell, where she is affiliate faculty, and codirector of the UW Certificate in Public Scholarship. She has worked previously as a grants program officer developing cross-disciplinary and cross-sectoral research collaborations (at the UW Simpson Center for the Humanities), as an arts administrator (at PEN International, the nonprofit writers’ advocacy organization), and as an instructor of composition, literary, cultural, and gender studies. Recent publications focus on diversifying PhD professional pathways, community engagement, and assessment practice.
Michael Bérubé is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Literature and director of the Institute for the Arts and Humanities at Pennsylvania State University.
Marc Bousquet is associate professor of English at Emory University and a frequent contributor to the Chronicle of Higher Education. He is currently working on a book manuscript tentatively titled “Monetizing the Student,” which extends the analysis in his well-known monograph How the University Works (2008). [End Page 207]
Bruce Burgett is dean of the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at the University of Washington Bothell, graduate faculty in the Department of English at the UW Seattle, and codirector of the UW Certificate in Public Scholarship. He is the chair of the National Advisory Board of Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life, the past president of the Cultural Studies Association, and a board member of Humanities Washington. He is the author of Sentimental Bodies: Sex, Gender, and Citizenship in the Early Republic (1998) and the coeditor of Keywords for American Cultural Studies (2007–2014), among other publications across the fields of American studies, cultural studies, and queer studies.
Kristen Case, assistant professor of English at the University of Maine Farmington, teaches courses in American Literature, environmental writing, and the intersection of poetry and philosophy. She has published articles on Henry David Thoreau, Robert Frost, and Ezra Pound and is the author of American Pragmatism and Poetic Practice: Crosscurrents from Emerson to Susan Howe (2011). Her poems have appeared in Chelsea, the Brooklyn Review, Pleiades, Saint Ann’s Review, and the Iowa Review.
Leonard Cassuto, professor of English at Fordham University, writes a monthly column for the Chronicle of Higher Education called The Graduate Adviser, and he is completing a book on the state of American graduate education. He is the author or editor of seven books on American literature and culture. The most recent of these are The Cambridge History of the American Novel (2011), of which he was general editor; The Cambridge Companion to Baseball (2011), winner of Anthology of the Year from the North American Society for Sports Historians; and Hard-Boiled Sentimentality: The Secret History of American Crime Stories (2009), which was nominated for the Edgar Award and the Macavity Award and named one of the Ten Best Books of 2008 in the crime and mystery category by the Los Angeles Times. www.lcassuto.com.
David Colander received his PhD from Columbia University and was the Christian A. Johnson Distinguished Professor of Economics at Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vermont, from 1982 to 2013, when he was appointed College Professor at Middlebury. In 2001–2 he was the Stanley Kelley Jr. Visiting Professor of Distinguished Teaching at Princeton University. He has authored, coauthored, or edited over 40 books and 150 articles on...
