Contributors
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Steven Bembridge is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of East Anglia. His dissertation reads American literary naturalism against the liberalization of American evangelicalism. His essay on Jack London’s representation of Jesus is based on the dissertation’s third chapter.
Dan Colson is Assistant Professor of English at Emporia State University. His research challenges the notion that anarchism had an insignificant influence on American literature and culture. By exploring anarchism’s wide-ranging impact from the Civil War to World War II, he suggests that the nation’s representational logic foreclosed upon anarchism yet left an archive of anti-government texts comprising a residual challenge to American democracy. His published work has appeared in American Quarterly, Radical Teacher, Studies in American Naturalism, Philip Roth Studies, and the AAUP Journal of Academic Freedom, among other journals.
Anita Duneer is Associate Professor of English at Rhode Island College, where she teaches American and postcolonial literatures. She is at work on a book about Jack London and the sea, which merges interests in maritime literature and literary naturalism. Her recent publications on literary seafaring have appeared in American Literary Realism, Studies in American Naturalism, ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance, and mla’s Approaches to Teaching the Works of Jack London.
Dustin Faulstick is Assistant Professor of English at Missouri Southern State University. His scholarship considers twentieth-century U.S. literature in relation to biblical intertextuality and critical reflections on the American Dream. His essays have appeared in Literature and Belief, Edith Wharton Review, Renascence, and Religion and the Arts.
Susie Hennessy earned her Ph.D. at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She is professor of French at Missouri Western State University. [End Page 99]
Donald Pizer, Pierce Butler Professor of English Emeritus at Tulane University, has published widely on late nineteenth-and early twentieth-century American literature.
Drew Swanson is Assistant Professor of History at Wright State University, where he teaches environmental and food history. He is author of A Golden Weed: Tobacco and Environment in the Piedmont South and Remaking Wormsloe Plantation: The Environmental History of a Lowcountry Landscape.
Jordan L. Von Cannon is a Ph.D. candidate in English and Women’s and Gender Studies at Louisiana State University. Her dissertation, “Idling Women: The Domestic Bildungsroman and the American City, 1830–1900,” explores urban narratives of female non-development. Her work has also appeared in Persuasions, and she has served as a writer and senior advisor for ESQ’s “Year in Conferences” feature.
Jay Williams is senior managing editor of Critical Inquiry and editor of Signature Derrida and of the forthcoming The Oxford Handbook of Jack London. He is also author of Author Under Sail: The Imagination of Jack London. [End Page 100]
