Notes on Contributors
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Heather Chacón is Assistant Professor in the Department of English, Communications and Media Studies at Greensboro College. Her work, which examines connections between economics and medicine in nineteenth-century American writings, has appeared in Studies in American Fiction and Literature and Medicine. Her current project is a book-length manuscript titled “Health Movements: Medicine, Empire, and Commerce in 19th-Century American Literature and Culture.”
Sara L. Crosby is Associate Professor of English at The Ohio State University at Marion. Her most recent Poe-related publications include Poisonous Muse: The Female Poisoner and the Framing of Popular Authorship in Jacksonian America (2016) and “Beyond Ecophilia: Edgar Allan Poe and the American Tradition of Ecohorror” (ISLE). She is currently writing a book that investigates why the US has been allowing south Louisiana to wash away, tentatively titled “Losing Louisiana: Extraction, Ecohorror, and the Death of America’s Wetland.”
Emron Esplin is Associate Professor of English at Brigham Young University, where he teaches courses in US literature and inter-American literary studies. He is the editor, with Margarida Vale de Gato, of Translated Poe (2014), which examines Poe translations in nineteen different literary traditions. His first monograph, Borges’s Poe: The Influence and Reinvention of Edgar Allan Poe in Spanish America, was published by the University of Georgia Press in the New Southern Studies series in 2016. He has also published articles on Katherine Anne Porter, Nellie Campobello, Pancho Villa, William Faulkner, Julio Cortázar, and Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Dana Medoro is Professor of American Literature at the University of Manitoba. She is author of The Bleeding of America (2002), a study of twentieth-century American fiction, and Antebellum Abortion: Open Secrets in Poe and Hawthorne, forthcoming from the University of New Hampshire Press.
Naomi Miyazawa is Associate Professor in the Department of English, Faculty of Foreign Studies, at Kyoto Sangyo University. She received her MA degree from Tsuda College in Tokyo and her PhD from State University of New York at [End Page 147] Buffalo. She has published several articles on Poe, including two in The Journal of the American Literature Society of Japan. Her current research examines how visual arts, especially photography, relate to literary works of Poe.
Russell Reising teaches American literature and Asian studies at the University of Toledo and is a Distinguished Guest Professor at Qilu University of Technology in Jinan, Shandong Province, People’s Republic of China. Professor Reising has worked as a Fulbright Teaching Fellow at the University of Jyvaskyla (Finland) and at the University of Zagreb (Croatia), and has served a residency as a consultant in popular music at the University of Salford (United Kingdom). He also teaches and has published widely on popular music, with a special emphasis on the many facets of psychedelia in popular music and culture.
Susan Scheckel is Associate Professor of English at Stony Brook University, where she teaches American literature and culture before 1900, with a special interest in race, affect theory, and the history of emotion before 1900.
Kristie A. Schlauraff is currently an Arthur J. Ennis Postdoctoral Fellow at Villanova University, where she teaches foundational humanities courses as well as a graduate course on literary representations of American women in medicine. Currently, she is working on a book project that investigates intersections of science and sound in nineteenth-century gothic fiction to expose a new awareness of bodies as soundscapes. In addition to her scholarship and teaching, she serves as a subcommittee member for the C19 Podcast, the newly launched podcast of C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists, which fosters public scholarship on American literature, history, and culture.
Brett Zimmerman is Associate Professor at York University in Toronto, Canada, where he teaches courses on US literature (including a course on Poe), and style, rhetoric, and oratory in the American tradition. In addition to articles on numerous subjects in magazines, journals, and academic encyclopedias, he has contributed to Harold Bloom’s “The Tell-Tale Heart” and Other Stories (new edition), and Kevin J. Hayes’s Poe in Context. He has also published two books: Herman...
