Contributors
- Contributors
Shalyn Claggett is an Associate Professor of English at Mississippi State University, specializing in nineteenth-century British literature and science. Her work has appeared in such journals as Victorian Literature and Culture, SEL, Connotations, and Prose Studies, and she is the co-editor of Strange Science: Investigating the Limits of Knowledge in the Victorian Age (Michigan University Press, forthcoming). Her current book project, "Equal Natures: The Science of Character in Victorian Women's Writing," examines how women authors engaged with the popular science of phrenology.
Harriet Kramer Linkin is a Distinguished Achievement Professor of English at New Mexico State University, where she teaches courses in British Romanticism and women's literature. She has published widely on Romantic-era writers (particularly William Blake and Mary Tighe) and is the editor of the first edition of Mary Tighe's Verses Transcribed for H.T. (Romantic Circles, 2014), the first edition of Mary Tighe's Selena: A Scholarly Edition (Ashgate, 2012), the first scholarly edition of The Collected Poems and Journals of Mary Tighe (Kentucky UP, 2005) and the co-editor (with Stephen C. Behrendt) of two collections on Romantic women poets: Romanticism and Women Poets: Opening the Doors of Reception (Kentucky UP, 1999) and Approaches to Teaching Women Poets of the British Romantic Period (MLA, 1997).
Maik Nwosu is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Denver, Colorado. An award-winning novelist, poet, and journalist, Nwosu has also published Markets of Memories: Between the Postcolonial and [End Page 284] the Transnational and coedited The Critical Imagination in African Literature: Essays in Honor of Michael J. C. Echeruo.
Scott C. Richmond is an Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies in the Department of English at Wayne State University, where his teaching and research focus on avant-garde cinema and experimental media, film theory and media theory, and phenomenology and critical theory. His work has appeared, among other places, in World Picture, Discourse, and the Journal of Visual Culture. He is co-editor, with Elizabeth Reich, of a special issue of Film Criticism entitled "New Approaches to Cinematic Identification." His first book, Cinema's Bodily Illusions: Flying, Floating, and Hallucinating, is forthcoming in 2016 from the University of Minnesota Press.
Richard Rankin Russell is Professor of English and Graduate Program Director at Baylor University, where he also directs the Beall Poetry Festival (www.baylor.edu). He has published seven books on writers from Ireland and Northern Ireland such as Seamus Heaney, Bernard MacLaverty, Michael Longley, Peter Fallon, Brian Friel, and Martin McDonagh, and his Seamus Heaney: An Introduction is forthcoming from Edinburgh University Press in Fall 2016. He has recently published a long essay on empathy in Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway and an article on reading the Emmett Till lynching through the poetry of Langston Hughes. His ecotheological reading of Cormac McCarthy's The Road is forthcoming from Christianity and Literature. [End Page 285]
