Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
Rina Dudai is a senior lecturer in literature at the Kibbutzim College, Israel. Her studies are in the intersection between literature, cinema, and psychoanalysis. Her research engages with the topic of coping with trauma, paying special attention to the issue of representation of the memory of trauma in psychological and poetic contexts. She has published several articles on Holocaust trauma as represented in poetic language, referring to the works of Primo Levi, Aharon Appelfeld, Ka-Tzetnik, Dan Pagis, Ida Fink, and Jorge Semprun in literature and Michael Haneke, Ari Folman, Steven Spielberg, and Omer Fast in film and video art.
Steve Hollyman completed his PhD in creative writing at Manchester Metropolitan University in 2013. His thesis, “The Self-Begetting Novel: Metafiction in the 21st Century,” exposes traditional theories of metafictional narrative to current arguments in the field of transmedia storytelling. His first novel, Keeping Britain Tidy, was published in 2010. He is currently a senior lecturer in creative writing at Bath Spa University.
Christine Maksimowicz is an American Psychoanalytic Association fellow. Her work is situated at the intersection of twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature, gender studies, trauma theory, psychoanalysis, and the critical analysis of social class. Her current research seeks to widen conceptions of what constitutes trauma, identifying embedded trauma within ordinary classed realities and relations. She is presently working on a book manuscript entitled “Who Do You Think You Are?: Recovering the [End Page 131] Self in the Working-Class Escape Narrative,” a project that examines how fiction reveals unrecognized dimensions of classed injury and explores how classed trauma shapes narrative construction. She is a past recipient of the Joseph L. Boscov Fellowship and was recently awarded the Julius Silberger Essay Prize. She also holds master’s degrees in theological studies from Claremont School of Theology and in music from Westminster Choir College.
Jacob D. Myers is assistant professor of homiletics at Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, Georgia. His work centers on religious discourse at the intersection of homiletical theory and poststructural philosophy.
Petar Ramadanovic teaches literary theory at the University of New Hampshire. He immigrated to the United States from the former Yugoslavia in the early 1990s. He is currently finishing his second book-length manuscript, titled “Beyond Ideology: Revisionist Readings in Post-Structuralism.”
Joshua N. Waggoner is visiting assistant professor of English and writing at the University of Tampa. He previously taught literature and screen-writing at Clemson University after receiving his PhD in comparative literature from the University of California at Davis. He has been published in the journal Monsters and the Monstrous and he is currently at work on a book manuscript investigating irony and representations of trauma in modern literature. His research interests include trauma theory, theories of the comic, adaptation and genre, film, and screenwriting. [End Page 132]
