Contributors
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Erin N. Bistline specializes in nineteenth-century British and American literature and book history, with particular focus in ecocriticism and animal studies. Her article “Anna Sewell’s Black Beauty: Reframing the Pastoral Tradition” appears in Victorian Writers and the Environment: Ecocritical Perspectives (Routledge 2016), and her essay on Romantic women writers, science, and nature is forthcoming in the Routledge Research Companion to Romantic Women Writers. Project manager for the digital archive Nineteenth-century Women Writers Reviewed, Dr. Bistline is an instructor at Ashland University.
Samantha Blackmon is an Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Composition at Purdue University and an avid gamer. It took twenty years to turn a guilty pleasure into research, but she got it done. She is the co-founder of Not Your Mama’s Gamer blog and podcast. Her current research interests including minority representation in games and games as cultural critique.
E. Leigh Bonds is the Digital Humanities Librarian at The Ohio State University, where she promotes the development of digital scholarship in the arts and humanities. She co-edited CEA Critic’s special issue on Digital Humanities pedagogy (July 2014), and she was a contributing editor to Romantic Women Writers Reviewed (Pickering & Chatto, 2011-3). Holding a PhD in English from Texas Tech University, Bonds combines her interests in textual studies and digital humanities. Her research interests include digital archives, Romantic women writers, literary celebrity, and the Romantic book trade.
Ambereen Dadabhoy is a visiting assistant professor of literature at Harvey Mudd College. Her teaching and research interests focus on cross-cultural encounters in the early modern Mediterranean, race and religious difference in early modern English drama. She is currently working on a book project, “The Ottoman Caesars of Rome: Re-orienting Translatio Imperii,” that examines English constructions of the Ottoman Empire as a model for their own imperial ambitions.
Ann R. Hawkins, a former CEA President, has received both the CEA Distinguished Service Award (2010) and the CEA Professional Achievement Award (2011). A two-time winner of Texas Tech University’s Arts and Sciences Outstanding Researcher award, Hawkins has published on the nineteenth-century book trade, particularly women writers and their reception; Romantic Shakespeare; and the pedagogy of book history and [End Page 135] bibliography. With Maura Ives, she serves as series editor for Routledge’s Studies in Publishing History: Manuscript, Print, and Digital. She writes historical fiction under the pen name, Rachael Miles.
Luke A. Iantorno specializes in British Romantic literature and apocalypticism. His current book project, Apocalyptic Sensibility: The Aesthetics of Millennium, explores how eschatology and prophecy influenced Helen Maria Williams, William Wordsworth, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Iantorno has published on women writers and Digital Humanities, including co-editing a special issue of CEA Critic. He teaches in the English department at Texas Tech University.
Robert Sirabian is an associate professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. He teaches writing courses as well as courses focusing on nineteenth-century British literature, including the Victorian novel, Victorian Medievalism, Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, and adaptation and revision in Oliver Twist and Great Expectations. He has co-written a completed draft of a sports literature anthology and is completing a book entitled Freedom and Structure: The Culture of Play in the Novels of Charles Dickens, which examines how Dickens’s novels explore the relationship between freedom and structure that is central to material play and games as well as Victorian culture.
Maurice Suckling has been developing video games since 1998 and contributed to over 40 published titles. His work includes Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel and Civilization VI. Holding a PhD from Newcastle University, he currently teaches video game writing and narrative design at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY.
Bremen Vance is a Ph.D. student in the Rhetoric and Professional Communication program at Iowa State University. His research interests focus on multimodal writing practices and pedagogies.
Barbara Vrachnas is a Post-Doctoral Teaching Assistant at the University of Edinburgh, where she also received her PhD in English. Her article “Marginalized Women in Fiction and in Fact: Female Characters in the Victorian Era” appeared in Women Past and Present: Biographic and Multidisciplinary Studies (Cambridge Scholars 2014). [End Page 136]
