Contributors
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Jose A. Aparicio, a doctoral candidate and graduate teaching associate, is working on his dissertation that employs affect theory and phenomenology in order to analyze ethnic affects and the manner in which emotions shape identity and transform characters in James Joyce, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Virginia Woolf, Ana Menendez, Junot Diaz, and Nicole Krauss. His research interests include twentieth- and twenty-first century Irish, British, and American literature with an emphasis on Latina/o literature, as well as critical theory. In his spare time, he enjoys watching awful reality TV, B-movies, and sitcoms that he justifies watching by saying they can be used as a cultural lens to society.
Alison Bach is Instructor of English at Hudson County Community College. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from Sarah Lawrence College, and her fiction has been published in Meridian.
Stacy Bailey is a clinical faculty member of the University of Northern Colorado’s English department focusing on teaching English education courses. She is also a doctoral candidate in the University of Northern Colorado’s Educational Psychology program.
Dr. Grant Bain is Curriculum Design Specialist and an English instructor at the University of Arkansas, where he has taught for the last ten years. He has previously published in the Critic on Ernest Hemingway and N. Scott Momaday and has also published on William Faulkner, Richard Wright, and the X-Files. He is currently working on two essays, concerning Edgar Allan Poe and Louis Owens respectively.
Craig Hamilton is an associate professor of English at the University of Haute Alsace in France. He obtained his PhD at the University of Maryland and his Habilitation from the University of Strasbourg. In 2013–14, he was Visiting Professor of Rhetoric at Colgate University. He has published widely on cognitive approaches to language, poetics, and rhetoric. He is a contributing author to the textbook, Persuading People (Palgrave, 3rd ed.), and his current interest is scientific rhetoric.
Garrett Jeter has a BA in Classics from Hampden-Sydney College in VA, an MA in Classics from the University of Illinois at Urbana, and a JD from John Marshall Law School in Atlanta. Currently, he is in a PhD program at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, with a declared interest in Gothic and Romantic fictions. [End Page 346]
Allison K. Lenhardt is Assistant Professor of English and the Director of the Honors Program at Wingate University. Her most recent article, “The American Shakespeare Center’s ‘Actors’ Renaissance Season’: Appropriating Early Modern Performance Documents and Practices,” appeared in Shakespeare Bulletin’s Rehearsing Shakespeare, a special issue on contemporary performance and rehearsal processes.
Dean Mendell is an assistant professor of English at Touro College. His publications include essays on playwrights Horton Foote and Neil LaBute.
K. Irene Rieger is Assistant Professor of English at Bluefield College in Bluefield, Virginia. She holds a PhD in English Literature from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, and an MA in French Literature from the University of Florida. Her research focuses on Victorian and Modern literature and includes New Woman novels, women writers, fashion and dress history, motherhood, and comparative literature.
David Swerdlow is the author of two collections of poetry: Bodies on Earth (2010) and Small Holes in the Universe (2003). His poems have appeared in Poetry, The American Poetry Review, and many other distinguished journals. He teaches literature and creative writing at Westminster College in Pennsylvania. He has just completed a novel manuscript, Television Man, which dwells on the subject of school violence.
Paul Thifault is Assistant Professor of English at Lindsey Wilson College, a liberal arts college in Kentucky, where he teaches courses in American Literature, American Studies, and Critical Theory. His paper from the 2013 CEA conference in Savannah was recently published in article form as “Race, Religion, and Nationalism in the Early Pocahontas Plays” in ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance.
Deborah VanderBilt is Professor of English at St. John Fisher College. She teaches in the first-year program and courses in Medieval literature and related areas.
Gabriela Vlahovici-Jones serves as Lecturer in the Department of English and Modern Languages at University of Maryland Eastern Shore, where she teaches courses in public speaking, technical writing...
