Notes on Contributors
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Maria Shivani Bose is a PhD candidate in English at UC Irvine. She is currently completing a dissertation that examines the impact of network media on contemporary literary expressions of racial identity and group character, entitled New Media Minorities: Race Writing in the Digital Age. Her work is forthcoming in Criticism: A Quarterly for Literature and the Arts.
Lauren Heintz is a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the English Department at Tulane University. Lauren received her PhD in Literature from the University of California, San Diego. Currently, Lauren is at work on her manuscript, titled, Hidden In Plain View: Where Interracial Meets Queer in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Literature and Culture. Lauren has a forthcoming article on Victor Séjour’s short story, “Le Mulâtre,” to be published in 2017 in GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies.
Kenneth M. Roemer is a Piper Professor, Distinguished Teaching Professor, and Distinguished Scholar Professor at the University of Texas at Arlington. He has edited three books on Native American literature, including the co-edited The Cambridge Companion to Native American Literature. One of his four books on utopian literature was nominated for a Pulitzer in American history. He has just completed In My Father’s House: The Wannabes and their Making, a three-generation memoir focusing on relations with Native Americans.
Davis Smith-Brecheisen is a PhD candidate in English Literature at the University of Illinois-Chicago. His areas of research include American literature, the history of the novel, literary theory, and economic thought.
Janis P. Stout is Professor of English Emerita and Dean of Faculties / Associate Provost Emerita of Texas A&M University. She is the author of numerous books and articles on American literature, including Coming Out of War: Poetry, Grieving, and the Culture of the [End Page 137] World Wars (2005), Picturing a Different West: Vision, Illustration, and the Tradition of Cather and Austin (2007), and most recently South by Southwest: Katherine Anne Porter and the Burden of Texas History (2013), and, with Andrew Jewell, The Selected Letters of Willa Cather (2013).
Carey R. Voeller is Assistant Professor of English at Wofford College, where he teaches classes in Early American and Nineteenth-Century American literatures, gender studies, and disability studies. He has published works on monstrosity and manhood in 1840s narratives about the Donner Party, anti-sentimentality in Overland Trail women’s narratives, sympathy and regret in Hemingway’s hunting fiction, and most recently, a chapter in These Living Songs: Reading Montana Poetry, on M.L Smoker’s Sioux-Assiniboine critique of Montana as “The Last Best Place.” He is currently writing an essay on hegemonic masculinity, violence, and sexuality in George Thompson’s City Crimes. [End Page 138]
