Notes on Contributors
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Suzanne Ashworth, Professor of English at Otterbein University, teaches early American literature, LGBTQ literature, and gender and sexuality studies. Her published work examines the interplay among literature; histories of the body, desire, sexuality, and gender; and critical theory. Her latest project is a book-length study of Poe’s short fiction.
David Cody, who received his BA from Tufts University and his PhD from Brown University, is Babcock Professor of English at Hartwick College. His articles on Dickinson, Hawthorne, Melville, Poe, Cooper, Whitman, Henry Adams, Faulkner, and other American and British authors have appeared in many scholarly journals, books, and annual volumes. Currently, he serves as a reviewer and/or editorial board member for the Nathaniel Hawthorne Review, Literature in the Early American Republic, Resources for American Literary Study, and the Edgar Allan Poe Review.
Tobias Dahlkvist is Associate Professor of the history of ideas in the Department of Culture and Aesthetics at the University of Stockholm, Sweden. He is the author of three books on the history of philosophical pessimism: Nietzsche and the Philosophy of Pessimism (2007), Förtvivlans filosofi [Philosophy of desperation] (2010), and Eremiten i Paris [The hermit in Paris] (2013). In recent years, the focus of his research has shifted toward the cultural history of fin-de-siècle medicine, in particular theories of degeneration and genius.
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.
John Gruesser is Professor of English at Kean University. In 2013, McFarland published Gruesser’s Race, Gender and Empire in American Detective Fiction, which includes a chapter on Poe. In 2017, West Virginia University Press [End Page 160] will publish a scholarly edition of Sutton E. Griggs’s 1905 novel The Hindered Hand, which Gruesser edited with Hanna Wallinger. He is currently at work on a monograph with the tentative title “Edgar Allan Poe and His Literary Contemporaries,” as well as a literary biography of Sutton Griggs.
Desirée Henderson is Associate Professor of English at the University of Texas at Arlington, where she specializes in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American literature and women’s writing. She is the author of Grief and Genre in American Literature, 1790–1870 (2011), as well as essays published in Early American Literature, Studies in American Fiction, and Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, among other scholarly journals. She currently serves as features editor for Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers.
Donatella Izzo is Professor of American Literature at Università di Napoli “L’Orientale,” Italy. Her research fields include American literature, American Studies, literary theory, and comparative literature. She is the author of many scholarly essays and books—including Portraying the Lady: Technologies of Gender in the Short Stories of Henry James (2001)—and is now completing a study of the political philosophy of crime and detective narratives.
Paul Christian Jones is the Sam and Susan Crowl Professor of English at Ohio University. He is the author of two books, Unwelcome Voices: Subversive Fiction in the Antebellum South (2005) and Against the Gallows: Antebellum American Writers and the Movement to Abolish Capital Punishment (2011), as well as numerous journal articles on nineteenth-century American literature. His current book project examines Poe’s work through the lens of queer temporality.
Travis Montgomery is Assistant Professor of English at Oklahoma Christian University. He is an officer of the Poe Studies Association and recently wrote an essay about Gothic poetry that will appear in The Cambridge Companion to American Gothic, a forthcoming collection edited by Jeffrey Weinstock.
Scott Peeples is Professor and Chair of English at the College of Charleston. He serves as Consulting Editor for...
