Contributors
- Contributors
JAMES BERKEY is Assistant Professor of English at Penn State Brandywine, where he teaches courses in American literature and directs the Brandywine Writing Studio. He has published articles on soldier newspapers from the Spanish-American War in the Journal of Transnational American Studies and the Journal of Modern Periodical Studies. His article “Splendid Little Papers from the ‘Splendid Little War’: Mapping Empire in the Soldier Newspapers of the Spanish-American War” won the 2012 Proquest/Research Society for American Periodicals Article Prize. A forthcoming essay on Civil War soldier papers will appear in Timothy Sweet’s edited collection Literary Cultures of the Civil War. He can be reached at: jhb5255@psu.edu.
COLLEEN GLENNEY BOGGS is Professor of English at Dartmouth College and the author of Animalia Americana: Animal Representations and Bio-political Subjectivity (Columbia University Press, 2013) and Transnationalism and American Literature: Literary Translation 1773–1892 (Routledge, 2007). She is co-editor of the Edinburgh Studies in Transatlantic Literatures and Cultures book series at Edinburgh University Press. Her edited volume, Options for Teaching the Literatures of the American Civil War, is forthcoming from the Modern Language Association in 2016. She currently holds a National Endowment for the Humanities grant at the American Antiquarian Society for her next monograph, Civil War Substitutes: How the Military Draft Changed American Literature. She can be reached at: Colleen.G.Boggs@dartmouth.edu.
CRAIG CAREY is Assistant Professor of English and Interim Director of Undergraduate Studies at the University of Southern Mississippi. His research examines the intersection of literature and technology in nineteenth-century America. He is currently completing a book project on the materialities of authorship and the practice of writing in the age of realism. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in American Literature, American Literary History, American Literary Realism, and the Hemingway Review. He can be reached at: craig.carey@usm.edu.
CHRISTOPHER J. LA CASSE is an English Lecturer at the United States Coast Guard Academy. He completed his doctoral degree at the University of Delaware. His essays focus on the influence of World War I on modernist little [End Page 232] magazines, including “Evolving Wartime Print Cultures of the Anglo-American Modern Literary Renaissance” (The Edinburgh Companion to the First World War and the Arts) and “From the Historical Avant-Garde to Highbrow Coterie Modernism: The Little Review’s Wartime Advances and Retreats” (forthcoming in Criticism 57.4). In June 2015, he served as Project Coordinator for the National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute “City of Print: New York and the Periodical Press.” He can be reached at: lacasse@udel.edu.
ADAM McKIBLE is Associate Professor of English at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, where he teaches courses in American and African American literature. He is coeditor of a special issue of Modernism/modernity devoted to the Harlem Renaissance (September 2013) and of Little Magazines and Modernism: New Approaches (Ashgate, 2007), and he edited and introduced Edward Christopher Williams’s When Washington Was in Vogue, a previously lost novel of the Harlem Renaissance (HarperCollins, 2004). He is also the author of The Space and Place of Modernism: The Russian Revolution, Little Magazines, and New York (Routledge, 2002). His essays on little magazines, modernism, and African American literature appear in The Oxford Handbook of Modernisms (Oxford, 2011), Teaching the Harlem Renaissance: Course Design and Classroom Strategies (Peter Lang, 2007), The Black Press (Rutgers University Press, 2001), African American Review, Contemporary Literature Criticism, The Dictionary of Literary Biography, American Periodicals, and various dictionaries and encyclopedias. His current project is tentatively titled George Horace Lorimer and the Harlem Renaissance.
MARK NOONAN is Professor of English at New York City College of Technology (CUNY). He is the author of Reading the Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine: American Literature and Culture, 1870–1893 (Kent State University Press, 2010) as well as essays including “Howling Mad: Allen Ginsberg, MAD Magazine, and the Cultural Politics of the 1950s” (in Seriously Funny: Humor in Journalism) and “Getting the Word Out: Institutions and Forms of Publication” (in the Cambridge Companion to Working-Class Literature). He is co-editor of The Place Where We Dwell: Reading and Writing about New York City and is the Vice...
