Contributors
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Laura Brzyski is a native Philadelphian, a high-school English teacher, and choreographer of school musicals. In 2014, she received her Master of Arts in English from Lehigh University, specializing in medieval literature. Her poetry has been published in Weal and Vagabond City and her creative non-fiction in The Stonecoast Review. She serves as Poetry Editor for Alternating Current and reads poetry & creative nonfiction for Gigantic Sequins.
Patrick Cesarini is an associate professor of English at the University of South Alabama, where he teaches American literature. He has published articles in Early American Literature, William and Mary Quarterly, and Symbiosis: A Journal of Transatlantic Literary and Cultural Relations.
Sharon Cote, who received her Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1996, is an associate professor of English and English Linguistics at James Madison University, where she teaches course in linguistics, the structure of the English Language, and speculative fiction. Her research and writing interests include metaphor theory, pragmatic inferences, linguistic approaches to literature, speculative fiction genres, and poetry-writing.
Ray Dademo teaches at Rutgers University and Montclair State University. He holds an M.F.A. in Nonfiction Writing from Columbia University and a B.A. in English from Fordham University.
Ashley Steele Heiberger is an assistant professor of English as a Second Language at Buena Vista University. She recently received her Ph.D. in English from Northern Illinois University, where she completed her dissertation, "Strong, and I Adapt Myself": Saudi Women and English Language Learning. Her research interests include second language acquisition, ESL pedagogy, intercultural competence, women's literature, and feminist theory.
Keith L. Huneycutt, professor of English at Florida Southern College, earned his Ph.D. in English from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His publications include a book co-authored with James M. Denham, Echoes From a Distant Frontier: The Brown Sisters' Correspondence from Antebellum Florida, and various articles on Florida literature, history, and culture. A former president of the Florida College English Association, he was awarded that organization's Distinguished Colleague Award in 2011. [End Page 351]
Deirdre Fagan is an assistant professor and the coordinator of creative writing in the English, Literature, and World Languages Department at Ferris State University. She has a D.A. in Humanistic Studies (English and philosophy) from the University at Albany, SUNY. Fagan is the author of Critical Companion to Robert Frost, and her essay "Emily Dickinson's Unutterable Word," originally published in The Emily Dickinson Journal, was collected in Bloom's Modern Critical Views: Emily Dickinson.
Lauren Garskie is a Ph.D. student in the Rhetoric and Writing program at Bowling Green State University. Her research interests center around design, collaboration, space, and multimodality.
Jeffrey E Jackson is assistant professor of nineteenth-century British literature at Monmouth University. His interests include book history and film adaptation.
Steven Knepper teaches in the Department of English, Rhetoric, and Humanistic Studies at Virginia Military Institute. In recent years, his essays and poems have appeared in journals such as The Robert Frost Review, The Southern Quarterly, Pembroke Magazine, and Telos."
Dyanne K. Martin is an assistant professor of English at Broward College. Her research interests include semiotics, critical race theory, classical and neo-classical rhetoric, and hemispheric minority literatures, especially those of Caribbean, African-American, and Latin-American cultures. Her publications include articles on adolescent immigrant experiences in Caribbean literature and the semiotics of racial passing.
Shane A. McCoy is an instructor in the Department of English at Tennessee Technological University in Cookeville, Tennessee. His research focuses on Africana women's literature, critical and feminist pedagogies, social justice, and pedagogies of empowerment. His teaching considers contemporary transnational literature, women of color and black feminisms, Hurricane Katrina, and comedy as social and cultural critique.
Adam Padgett has taught composition for over seven years. He is a Ph.D. candidate in Composition and Rhetoric at the University of South Carolina. His short fiction has appeared in Appalachian Heritage, Bellevue Literary Review, The Common, Cold Mountain Review, and SmokeLong Quarterly. Bellevue has won the Ron Rash Award for short fiction. You can follow him on Twitter @AdamPadgett1. [End Page 352]
Joseph W. Robertshaw is a fourth-year doctoral student in Rhetoric and...
