Notes on Contributors
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Elizabeth Brogden received her PhD in English and American literature from Johns Hopkins University in 2016 with a dissertation on para-novelistic forms of reading and writing in the long nineteenth century. She is currently a Visiting Fellow at the Dahlem Humanities Center (Freie Universität) in Berlin, where she is completing a book manuscript entitled Minor Protagonists: Forms of Narrative Evasion in American Fiction, 1830-1900. Her work has also appeared in NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction.
David Lawrimore is assistant professor of English at Idaho State University. His essays have appeared in American Literature, Early American Literature, and Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies. He is currently completing his book manuscript "The Natural Aristocracy: Intellectuals, Class, and the American Novel, 1789-1819," which reframes novelists of the early national period as intellectuals who wrote across a range of genres and formats of publication, often in the service of an urban, finance-driven class coalition.
Joe Letter is Associate Professor of English and Writing and Director of the Academic Writing program at the University of Tampa. His work primarily focuses on representations of revolution in early American historical fiction, and his research has appeared in American Literature, Early American Literature, American Periodicals, College English, and Pedagogy.
Liliana M. Naydan, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor of English at Penn State Abington. She researches contemporary American literature and has recently published on the subject in Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction and The Journal of Commonwealth Literature. Her book, Rhetorics of Religion in American Fiction: Faith, Fundamentalism, and Fanaticism in the Age of Terror (Bucknell UP, 2016), examines fictionalized impasses between believers of different kinds in the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. [End Page 299]
Andrew Strombeck is Associate Professor of English at Wright State University, and is currently at work on a monograph on the literary response to the 1975 New York fiscal crisis. He has written about such topics as David Wojnarowicz, Gordon Matta-Clark, Don DeLillo, Rachel Kushner, Ishmael Reed, and the Left Behind novels for journals such as Post45 Peer Reviewed, Modern Fiction Studies, Contemporary Literature, African American Review, and Cultural Critique.
Aliki Varvogli is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Dundee in Scotland, and director of the postgraduate course on Crime Writing and Forensic Investigation. She is the author of The World That is the Book: Paul Auster's Fiction and Travel and Dislocation in Contemporary American Fiction. She has also published essays on Jonathan Safran Foer, Dave Eggers, Philip Roth, Lorrie Moore, Dana Spiotta and others, and she is currently working on a project on urban resilience and urban regeneration. [End Page 300]
