Contributors
- Contributors
charles cantalupo is a Distinguished Professor of English, Comparative Literature, and African Studies at Pennsylvania State University. His poem “Poe in Massawa” appeared in EAPR 4, no. 1. It has become the basis for a series of five poems on where Poe lived called “Poe in Place,” which he recently read at the Edgar Allan Poe Museum. Cantalupo’s books include scholarly studies of Thomas Hobbes, Ngugi wa Thiong’o, and Eritrean poetry, three collections of poetry, and three collections of translations of Eritrean poetry. His work has received major support from the Ford and Rockefeller foundations and the World Bank. His memoir, Joining Africa: From Anthills to Asmara, is also available as an audiobook.
heyward ehrlich is Emeritus Professor of English, Rutgers Newark. His “Poe Webliography” was first published in Poe Studies in 1999 and is updated regularly online. His edition of Poe’s reviews and notices in Philadelphia magazines is in preparation for the Collected Writings.
roger forclaz is an independent scholar from Porrentruy, Switzerland, and is the author of Le Monde d’Edgar Poe (1974). He was a member of the editorial board of Poe Studies from 1984 to 2007.
alvin holm is a Philadelphia architect practicing and teaching in the classical tradition for thirty-three years. He holds a master’s degree from University of Pennsylvania and an undergraduate degree in liberal arts from Yale in 1958. Notable projects include the twenty-two galleries for the Nineteenth-Century European Collection at the Metropolitan Museum in New York, the Irish Pub in Philadelphia, a civic fountain in Kansas City and the Kansas City Public Library, and various churches, houses, and commercial buildings. He has done a great deal of historic restoration work, including the Historic Structures Report on the Philadelphia Edgar Allan Poe House for the National Park Service.
stephen mirarchi (Ph.D., Brandeis University) is Assistant Professor of English at Benedictine College in Atchison, Kansas. His articles have appeared, [End Page 266] or will be appearing soon, in Christianity and Literature, Religion and the Arts, Seminary Journal, and others. He is currently at work on a study of theodicy in early American literature.
travis montgomery is Assistant Professor of Language and Literature at Oklahoma Christian University, and his published work includes articles on American writers such as Edgar Allan Poe and Helen Keller.
clark moreland is a Lecturer of English at the University of Texas of the Permian Basin. He teaches American literature with a focus on the nineteenth century, as well as numerous composition courses. In 2014 he was awarded the Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Award by the University of Texas System. He is currently writing a book on the rhetoric of twentieth-century Christian pacifists.
jonathan murphy is an Assistant Professor of English at Texas A&M International University in Laredo, Texas. He has published a number of critical essays, book chapters, and book reviews on the authors of the American Renaissance, their Romantic predecessors, and their contemporary legacy for literary theory. He is currently completing a book project on American Transcendentalism and the U.S. Civil War.
gustav peebles is an Associate Professor at the New School University in New York City. Though an anthropologist by training, he was magnetically drawn into a deep study of Poe’s works because of long-standing interests in the history of mysticism and philosophy.
scott peeples, Professor of English at the College of Charleston, is the author of Edgar Allan Poe Revisited (1998), The Afterlife of Edgar Allan Poe (2004), and numerous articles on Poe and nineteenth-century American literature. He served as President of the Poe Studies Association from 2004 to 2007 and Coeditor of Poe Studies: History, Theory, Interpretation from 2008 to 2013.
jochen petzold is Professor of British Literature and Culture at the University of Regensburg (Germany). His main research interests are Victorian juvenile literature and South African literature.
karime rodriguez is a senior at the University of Texas of the Permian Basin, and is the recipient of numerous student awards and scholarships. She is a former student of Mr. Moreland. She plans on attending graduate school in the near future, either in art or English. [End Page 267]
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