Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
DENNIS W. ALLEN is a Professor in the English Department at West Virginia University, where he specializes in literary and cultural theory, Gay and Lesbian Studies, and the history of sexuality. He is the author of Sexuality in Victorian Fiction and has published articles on narrative theory, sexuality studies, and LGBT pedagogy in a variety of edited collections and such journals as SEL, Genders, and Narrative.
ALANNA BEROIZA is a graduate student at Rice University. Her research interests include twentieth and twenty-first century film, literature, and art, gender and sexuality studies, feminism, queer theory, psychoanalysis, and systems theory. She is currently writing a dissertation on visual and aural misrecognitions in late twentieth and the early twenty-first century film, photography, and sound.
SUZANNE BOST is Professor of English, and affiliate faculty in Women’s and Gender Studies, at Loyola University Chicago. She is the author of two books, Mulattas and Mestizas: Representing Mixed Identities in the Americas, 1850–2000 and Encarnación: Illness and Body Politics in Chicana Feminist Literature, and she recently co-edited, with Frances Aparicio, The Routledge Companion to Latino/a Literature. Her current work focuses the Gloria Anzaldúa archive, New Materialisms, posthumanism, and yoga.
JAMIE CALHOUN is Assistant Professor of English at Penn State University, Shenango, where she teaches women’s literature and mutli-cultural literature as well as first year writing. Recent publications include an article in Griot about Percival Everett’s Erasure and the history of black, masculine selfhood. Her research interests have brought her to inquire into the effects of a hyper-individualist culture on our relationships. [End Page 173]
PAMELA L. CAUGHIE is Professor of English and affiliate faculty in Women’s and Gender Studies at Loyola University Chicago. Books include Virginia Woolf and Postmodernism (1991), Passing and Pedagogy: The Dynamics of Responsibility (1999), Virginia Woolf in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, ed. (2000), and Disciplining Modernism, ed. (2009). She is co-editor of Woolf Online, a digital archive of To the Lighthouse, and co-Director of Modernist Networks, a federation of digital projects in modernist studies.
MADELYN DETLOFF is Associate Professor of English and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Miami University, OH. Her writing includes articles on women’s studies, feminist and cultural studies pedagogy, trauma, queer studies, and literary modernism. She has published one monograph, The Persistence of Modernism: Loss and Mourning in the 20th Century, and is currently co-editing a volume on Queer Bloomsbury (forthcoming from Edinburgh University Press) and finishing a book on The Value of Woolf (under contract with Cambridge University Press).
JOSE FERNANDEZ is an Assistant Professor in the English and Journalism Department and the Liberal Arts and Sciences Program at Western Illinois University, where he teaches courses on American literature and the intersection between the arts and sciences. His research interests include late 19th- and 20th-century American literature, and multi-ethnic literature (especially African American and Latino literature).
NATHAN JUNG is a doctoral candidate in the English department at Loyola University Chicago. His research and teaching interests include American literature, diaspora studies, and media theory. Drawing together these interests, his dissertation Public Relations: Diaspora, Media, and the State(s) of American Literature argues that contemporary diasporic novels and poetry develop a transnational critique of public sphere theory, which explores new models of civil society for an age of globalization. [End Page 174]
CARINA PASQUESI is the Manager of the Great Works of Literature and Writing Programs at Baruch College, CUNY, where she also teaches. Pasquesi’s research interests include nineteenth-century American literature and cultures, and queer and gender studies. Her most recent article, “The Morgesons: Elizabeth Stoddard’s Ars Erotica,” is forthcoming in Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers and she is currently working on a monograph, Cruel Sorority, Or, Feminizing Enjoyment in American Romance, about the overlooked antisocial figures and affects found on the margins of American Romanticism.
JUDITH ROOF is the author of three books on sexuality and representation: A Lure of Knowledge: Lesbian Sexuality and Theory, Come As You Are: Narrative and Sexuality (a winner of the Perkins Prize), and All About Thelma and Eve. She has two additional monographs, one...
