Contributors
- Contributors
WILLIAM ATKINSON, Professor in the English Department at Appalachian State University, North Carolina, teaches world literature. His publications include essays on Conrad, Synge, and Beckett, the most recent being "Victory in a Zone of Indistinction": Animals, Alfuros, and Agamben" in The Conradian, Autumn 2015.
ANDREW BUSZA, Associate Professor Emeritus at the University of British Columbia, is a poet and translator who has published several volumes of poetry in Polish and English. He received the Koscielski Literary Prize (1962), the Turzanski Foundation Award for lifetime achievement (2005), and the Association of Polish Writers Abroad Prize (2013). In 2013 a monograph on his poetry appeared in Poland. His publications on Conrad include Conrad's Polish Literary Background (1966). He is currently preparing a collection of his Conrad essays with the assistance of Professor John G. Peters.
EVELYN CHAN is currently Associate Professor in the Department of English at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her first monograph, Virginia Woolf and the Professions, was published in 2014. She has since then turned her focus to Joseph Conrad's work.
MARK DEGGAN is a lecturer in World Literature for Simon Fraser University, British Columbia. In addition to publishing on Conrad, he has published on the poetics of ecocriticism, and the aesthetics of landscape representation in colonial modernism in Duras, Lawrence, Lowry, Liu Yichang, and Damon Galgut.
MARK D. LARABEE is Associate Professor of English at the U.S. Naval Academy. He is the author of Front Lines of Modernism: Remapping the Great War in British Fiction (2011). He has also published on Conrad in Conradiana, The Conradian, Conrad Studies, Studies in the Novel, Oxford Bibliographies in British and Irish Literature, and elsewhere; and on Ford Madox Ford in Journal of [End Page 161] the History of Ideas and other journals. He is the Executive Editor of Joseph Conrad Today.
OLIVER NETO is a PhD candidate at the University of Bristol. His project, "Modernism and the Poetics of Boredom," aims to present boredom as both a major theme and a crucial formal and compositional question in modernist literature. It is primarily focused on the writing of Joseph Conrad, James Joyce and Elizabeth Bowen.
RICHARD RANKIN RUSSELL is Professor of English, Graduate Program Director, and Director of the Beall Poetry Festival at Baylor University. He has written five books on Irish literature and edited three more on the topic. His 2014 book, Seamus Heaney's Regions (Notre Dame UP) won the Cleanth Brooks/Robert Penn Warren Award for the outstanding book of literary criticism published in America that year. His new book is Seamus Heaney: An Introduction (Edinburgh UP, 2016). He is Vice-President of the Association for Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers.
JOYCE WEXLER is Professor and Chair of English at Loyola University Chicago. She is the author of Who Paid for Modernism? Art, Money, and the Fiction of Conrad, Joyce, and Lawrence; Laura Riding's Pursuit of Truth; and Laura Riding: A Bibliography as well as essays on Conrad, Lawrence, and Eliot. Her current project is a book on "Writing About Violence in a Secular Age." [End Page 162]
