Notes on Contributors
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Susan Bassnett is a writer and academic who has published and lectured extensively on the importance of Translation Studies to literary criticism and history. She holds chairs in Comparative Literature at the University of Warwick and the University of Glasgow and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the Institute of Linguists. Her latest research project is a book on translation and world literature.
William E. Engel is the Nick B. Williams Professor of English at Sewanee: The University of the South. In addition to numerous essays in collections, he is the author of six books, including Early Modern Poetics in Melville and Poe: Memory, Melancholy, and the Emblematic Tradition, which was named a Yankee Book Peddler Literary Essentials Title for 2013. He serves on the executive committee of the Poe Studies Association and the editorial board of Renaissance Quarterly, and he currently is working on “The Place of Poe’s Angels” for a forthcoming volume titled Poe and Place.
Emron Esplin teaches US literature and inter-American literary studies at Brigham Young University. He is the editor, with Margarida Vale de Gato, of Translated Poe (2014), which examines Poe translations in nineteen different literary traditions. His monograph, Borges’s Poe: The Influence and Reinvention of Edgar Allan Poe in Spanish America, is forthcoming in 2016 from the University of Georgia Press in the New Southern Studies series. He has also published comparative articles on Katherine Anne Porter, William Faulkner, Nellie Campobello, Pancho Villa, and Julio Cortázar.
Ton Fafianie is an independent scholar-historian from the Netherlands with a long-standing interest in the life and works of Poe.
Amy Golahny, Logan A. Richmond Professor of Art History at Lycoming College, has published extensively on Rembrandt, word-image studies, and nineteenth-century art in such venues as the edited collection A Companion to Renaissance and Baroque Art (2013) and the journals Oud Holland, Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek, and Source. She is on the editorial board of Dutch Crossing and The Low Countries, and she currently serves as president of the Historians of Netherlandish Art. [End Page 161]
Maria Karafilis is Professor of English at the California State University, Los Angeles, and Director of the American Communities Program, a public humanities initiative supported by CSULA and the National Endowment of the Humanities. She has published on such American writers as Mary Antin, Abraham Cahan, Sutton Griggs, Catharine Maria Sedgwick, and Harriet Beecher Stowe.
Mitchell C. Lilly received his MA in English from Marshall University, where he now teaches composition and literature courses. His research interests are counterfactual histories and video games, trauma fiction and nonfiction, and unnatural narratology. His essay on Paul Hornschemeier’s graphic novel Mother, Come Home as trauma narrative is forthcoming in ImageText: Interdisciplinary Comics Studies.
Dana Medoro is Associate Professor of American Literature at the University of Manitoba. Her publications include an article in Literature and Medicine on Poe’s “The Purloined Letter” as an allegory of abortion, and she is in the process of completing a book titled Antebellum Abortion: Open Secrets in Poe and Hawthorne.
Marcia D. Nichols is Assistant Professor in the Center for Learning Innovation at the University of Minnesota Rochester, where she teaches literature and medical humanities and engages in learning research. In addition to work on pedagogy, she has published on Charles Brockden Brown, early modern erotica, and eighteenth- and nineteenth-century medicine and midwifery. Her current book project analyzes the constructions of gender, sexuality, and masculine identity in midwifery manuals and other medical texts in the long eighteenth century.
Philip Edward Phillips is Professor of English and Associate Dean of the University Honors College at Middle Tennessee State University, where he teaches early European, British, and American literature. His work has appeared in Poe Studies, the Edgar Allan Poe Review, Approaches to Teaching Poe’s Prose and Poetry (edited by Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock and Tony Magistrale, 2008), Deciphering Poe (edited by Alexandra Urakova, 2013), and Edgar Allan Poe in Context (edited by Kevin Hayes, 2012). He is currently President of the Poe Studies...
