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  • Contributors

Anne Diebel recently completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Columbia University, where she is now an Advising Dean. Her scholarly work is on late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American literature and popular culture. Her writing has appeared in the Henry James Review, the London Review of Books, and Public Books.

Kevin J. Hayes is the author of Stephen Crane, which forms part of the Writers and Their Work series sponsored by the British Council, and editor of Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, a Bedford Cultural Edition. He is currently completing work on a book about Ernest Hemingway in Paris.

Lawrence E. Hussman is the author of numerous articles on naturalism and the monographs Dreiser and His Fiction: A Twentieth Century Quest and Harbingers of a Century: The Novels of Frank Norris. His most recent book is Desire and Disillusionment: A Guide to American Fiction Since 1890.

Kiara Kharpertian is a PhD candidate in English at Boston College and a Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy graduate fellow. She focuses on American literature from 1850 to the present and is primarily interested in literature of the American West and popular literature and culture.

Charles Lewis is Professor of English and Director of the Writing Program at Beloit College in Beloit, Wisconsin. He teaches courses in writing and literary studies, with an emphasis in American fiction. His publications include A Coincidence of Wants: The Novel and Neoclassical Economics and articles on authors such as Philip Roth, Toni Morrison, and F. Scott Fitzgerald. His interest in bicycles goes well beyond his article on Norris’s novel, some of his thinking about which happened while riding. [End Page 232]

Lauren Navarro is Assistant Professor of English at LaGuardia Community College, where she teaches courses in modern American literature. Her research focuses on the ways that American naturalist novelists, such as Dreiser, Norris, and Wharton, use trends in food production, consumption, and preparation to reveal anxieties about shifting gender norms in the fin de siècle United States.

Sara Rutkowski is Assistant Professor of English at Kingsborough Community College, City University of New York, in Brooklyn, New York. She is currently at work on a book about the literary legacy of the Federal Writers’ Project. [End Page 233]

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