Notes on Contributors
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JIM COBY is an English Ph.D student at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. His research focuses on Southern identities in twentieth-century literature, particularly how sense of self is altered by traumatic experiences. He has presented at numerous conferences on subjects ranging from the music of the Drive-By Truckers to the Mardi Gras Indians.
K.W. EVELETH is a Ph.D candidate at the University of Kentucky, specializing in transmedial narratology, graphic narrative, and children’s literature. He has published works focusing on Kel Gilligan’s Daredevil Stuntshow, the Scott Pilgrim transmedial series, and on participation in genre-bending indie games such as Braid.
ROBERT HUTTON is a Ph.D student in English at Carleton University, focusing on American literature and visual culture. He has previously been published in TOPIA (issue 33, Fall/Winter 2014), and presented at the conferences of the Northeast Popular Culture Association (2013) and the Society for Comparative Literature (2014).
FREDERIK BYRN KØHLERT is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Calgary. He is the author of The Chicago Literary Experience: Writing the City, 1893–1953 (University of Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 2011); “Female Grotesques: Carnivalesque Subversion in the Comics of Julie Doucet” in the Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics 3.1 (2012): 19–38; and “In the Ghetto: Sociology, the Cagney Gangster, and the ‘Dead End’ Kids in Angels with Dirty Faces” in the Journal of Popular Culture 47.4 (2014): 857–876.
ANDREW J. KUNKA is Professor of English at the University of South Carolina Sumter. He has published essays on Will Eisner, Jack Katz, Kyle Baker, Gene Luen Yang, and racial caricatures. He is currently working on a book about autobiographical comics for Bloomsbury’s Comics Studies series (2016).
SINÉAD MOYNIHAN is a Senior Lecturer in Twentieth-Century Literature at the University of Exeter with research interests clustering around American, Irish and Transatlantic Literature and Culture, particularly in relation to questions of race, migration, displacement and diaspora. Her first book, Passing into the Present: Contemporary American Fiction of Racial and Gender Passing, was published by Manchester University Press in 2010. Her second, “Other People’s Diasporas”: Negotiating Race in Contemporary Irish and Irish-American Culture, appeared with Syracuse University Press in 2013.
NANCY PEDRI is Associate Professor of English at Memorial University of Newfoundland. Her major fields of research include word-and-image relations in contemporary literature, photography in fiction and comics studies. She has edited 4 volumes on word-and-image studies. Her work on word and image relations has appeared [End Page 148] in numerous journals, including Poetics Today, International Journal for Canadian Studies, Texte, Journal of Literary Studies, and Rivista di studi italiani. Her work on comics can be found in Narrative, Arborescence, Literature & Aesthetics, ImageText, and other journals.
NICOLE STAMANT is an Assistant Professor of English at Agnes Scott College, where she specializes in autobiography studies and ethnic American literature. She is the author of Serial Memoir: Archiving American Lives (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), and her articles have appeared in a variety of venues, including The Hemingway Review, a/b: Auto/Biography, Studies in Comics, MELUS, and ARIEL.
RACHEL TROUSDALE is an Assistant Professor of English at Framingham State University. Her book Nabokov, Rushdie, and the Transnational Imagination was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2010, and she’s now working on a project on humor in modern poetry. Her work on twentieth-century fiction, poetry, and comics has appeared in The Journal of Modern Literature, The Journal of Commonwealth Literature, The Yale Review, and many other places. She also writes poetry. [End Page 149]
