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Contributors
MICHAEL EPP is an associate professor of English Literature at Trent University. Co-Founder and Director of the Public Texts graduate program, he researches the relationship between texts, violence, and publics in the United States and Ireland.
LISA STEIN HAVEN is an associate professor of English at Ohio University Zanesville, with interests in silent film comedy, especially Chaplin and Keaton. Her latest books include an edition of Chaplin’s A Comedian Sees the World (2014) and Syd Chaplin: A Biography (2010). She was the director/organizer of “Charlie in the Heartland: An International Charlie Chaplin Conference” in Zanesville, Ohio in 2010 and was a keynote speaker at the “Birth of the Tramp: 100 Years” celebration June 26–28, 2014 in Bologna, Italy. She is on the executive board of the Buster Keaton Celebration in Iola, Kansas.
PETER C. KUNZE earned a Ph.D. in English from Florida State University in 2012 and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in media studies from the University of Texas at Austin. His research examines masculinity, comedy, and childhood across literature, film, and new media.
NELLY LAMBERT teaches writing and literature at Trinity Washington University, an all women’s college in northeast Washington, DC. Her special interests include humor in poetry, philosophical approaches to teaching, and American poetry. An American Association of University Women American Fellow, Nelly is the secretary of the Emily Dickinson Society, Washington, DC chapter.
DOUGLAS C. MACLEOD JR. is an assistant professor of Composition and Communications at SUNY Cobleskill. His recent scholarship includes contributions to such journals as Film and History, The Journal of American [End Page 132] Studies of Turkey, and The Common Good: A SUNY Plattsburgh Journal on Teaching and Learning; and academic conference papers ranging across such topics as how to use stand-up comedy as a tool to help composition writers, representations of children and parents in The Twilight Zone, and Marathon Man as Holocaust drama. Dr. MacLeod considers himself an interdisciplinarian, but his work revolves mainly around mass media (especially film) and writing (composition or otherwise).
JEFFREY MELTON is Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of Alabama. He is the author of Mark Twain, Travel Books, and Tourism (2002) and co-editor of Mark Twain on the Move: A Travel Reader (2009). He has also published articles in Studies in American Humor, South Atlantic Review, and Papers on Language and Literature, among others.
VINCE M. MESERKO is a doctoral candidate in communication studies at the University of Kansas. His research interests emphasize media-centered rhetorical criticism and include disputes over the concept of “authenticity” in popular culture and popular music. In addition, he hosts two radio programs on the university radio station, KJHK 90.7 FM.
BRUCE MICHELSON, Professor of English Emeritus at the University of Illinois, is President of the American Humor Studies Association, Past President of the Mark Twain Circle of America, and 2014 Fulbright Professor of American Studies at the University of Antwerp. His books include Literary Wit (2001), Mark Twain on the Loose (1995), and Printer’s Devil: Mark Twain and the American Publishing Revolution (2006).
PETER F. MURPHY teaches in the Department of English and Philosophy at Murray State University in Murray, KY, where he directs the University Studies Program. He is the author of Studs, Tools, and the Family Jewels: Metaphors Men Live By (University of Wisconsin Press, 2001); and the editor of Feminism and Masculinities, a volume in the Oxford Readings in Feminism Series (Oxford University Press, 2004), and Fictions of Masculinity: Crossing Cultures, Crossing Sexualities (New York University Press, 1994). His articles and reviews have appeared in several journals and books, including Signs, The Routledge International Encyclopedia of Men and Masculinities, Men Writing the Feminine, Feminist Studies, College Literature, Review of [End Page 133] Contemporary Fiction, Twentieth Century Literature, Modern Fiction Studies, and Men and Masculinities.
INA C. SEETHALER has a Ph.D. in English from Saint Louis University and is currently an instructor in SLU’s Women’s and Gender Studies Program. Her main research interests lie at the intersections among literature, gender, and migration. She is working on a book manuscript about non-European immigrant women’s life writing as human rights rhetoric. Her previous publications have explored how Asian American women use Internet humor against racism and sexism and how cross-dressing was an important survival tool for early Japanese immigrants to the United States.
MARGARET D. STETZ is the Mae and Robert Carter Professor of Women’s Studies and Professor of Humanities at the University of Delaware. Her books include monographs (British Women’s Comic Fiction, 1890–1990), exhibition catalogues (Gender and the London Theatre, and Facing the Late Victorians), co-edited essay collections (Michael Field and Their World, and Legacies of the Comfort Women of WWII), and co-authored exhibition catalogues (The Yellow Book, England in the 1890s, and England in the 1880s). She has curated numerous exhibitions related to Victorian art, literature, and print culture and is currently organizing an exhibition (23 January–26 April 2015) at the Rosenbach Museum and Library on Oscar Wilde and Philadelphia.
OSCAR WINBERG received a B.A. (2013) and M.A. (2014) in history at Åbo Akademi University in Turku, Finland, where he is currently a Ph.D. candidate in history. His dissertation deals with the discourse on welfare in American sitcoms from the 1970s onward. His research interests include editorial cartoons, the history of conservatism, television studies, and the history of New York City. [End Page 134]
