Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
Todd Comer is Professor of English and Director of Composition at Defiance College. While his dissertation focused on postmodernism and community, his most recent work operates at the intersection of disability and ecology. He has recently published essays on disability in Chris Ware's Building Stories and Peter Jackson's filmed versions of The Lord of the Rings. Todd Comer's next book, a monograph under contract with Bloomsbury, will involve an ecological analysis of the films of Peter Weir.
Nora Gilbert is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of North Texas who jointly specializes in Victorian literature and classical Hollywood film. She is the author of Better Left Unsaid: Victorian Novels, Hays Code Films, and the Benefits of Censorship (Stanford UP, 2013), and has published articles in Film & History, PMLA, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies, and Victorian Review. She is presently at work on two separate but thematically related books that are provisionally entitled Gone Girls: The Runaway Woman Narrative in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Fiction and Unwomaned: Hollywood Stardom and the Threat of Female Independence.
Hatice Yurttas holds a PhD in English Language and Literature from the University of Istanbul in Turkey. Her doctorate research is based on post-modern women's writing and the novel genre. She continues to work and publish on women's writing, the novel, and postmodern literary theories. Hatice Yurttas has held positions as Instructor and Assistant Professor of English.
Daniel Aureliano Newman is a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Post-Doctoral Fellow at McGill University, where he [End Page 135] works on biology and physics in modern and contemporary British and Irish fiction. Some of his research is published or forthcoming in Style, James Joyce Quarterly, and Twentieth-Century Literature. He has also published scientific articles in Oikos and American Journal of Botany.
Teresa Prudente is Assistant Professor of English Literature at the University of Turin, Italy. She has authored a monograph on Woolf's temporalities (A Specially Tender Piece of Eternity: Virginia Woolf and the Experience of Time, 2009) and a book on Woolf, Joyce, and Science (To Saturate Every Atom: Letteratura e Scienza in Woolf e Joyce, 2012). Her research focuses on the interdisciplinary exploration of how specific perceptual experiences are linguistically and narratively reconfigured. Her current topics of inquiry include the examination of impersonal points of view and the analysis of the linguistic and narrative construction of hallucination. [End Page 136]
