Notes on Contributors
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MACKENZIE BALKEN is a doctoral candidate and research assistant in English at Baylor University. Her dissertation focuses on the orphan in twentieth century literature, exploring how trauma theory informs our understanding of literary orphans, who in turn shape our views of orphans, foster children, and adoptees in the real world.
NANCY BARNARD has an MA from William Carey University in Hattiesburg, MS and is an adjunct English instructor at Midland College in Midland, TX. Her research interests include interdisciplinary topics such as linguistics, visual arts, and science, as well as twentieth and twenty-first century American literature. Her paper, "The Powerful Presence of Absence: Addie Bundren's Desire for 'Doing' Fulfilled in Cormac McCarthy's The Road," is published in Publications of the Mississippi Philological Association, 33.1, 2016.
AMILYNNE JOHNSTON is a PhD candidate and the 2018–2019 Katharine C. Turner Fellow at Arizona State University. Her research interests include literary modernism, material feminisms, queer theory, and disability studies. Her forthcoming publications include articles on girls' and women's strategic consumption in colonial romance fiction and bodily assemblages in Djuna Barnes's Nightwood.
DAVID S. KING, an Associate Professor of French at Stockton University, writes about the moral implications of violence in medieval French literature. His recent articles include "The Wounded Knight's Stench in the Prose Lancelot: The Grail Quest Prefigured," Arthuriana 20.1 (2018): 56–68; "Allusive Fonteinnes: Love as Trouble in La Mort le Roi Artu," Romance Notes 56.3 (2016): 453–63; and "Victories Foretelling Disgrace: Judicial Duels in the Prose Lancelot," South Atlantic Review 81.2 (2016): 55–71.
ROBIN JEREMY LAND is a graduate student at Baylor University in his final year of study. By in large his research is concerned with the intersection of rhetorical theory and late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century American fiction. Specifically, he is interested in the way writers use fiction to advocate for the rights of people on the margins of society.
IAN MAXWELL RADZINSKI is currently a third year doctoral student at Texas A&M University in Commerce, Texas. His field of research includes Rhetoric and Composition, and Film Studies. Mr. Radzinski is currently conducting research examining the influence of Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon (1950) in Brian De Palma's film Femme Fatale (2002). [End Page 135]
MATT REECK is a PhD candidate in the Department of Comparative Literature at UCLA. His dissertation is entitled "At the Limits of Description: Ethnography and Aesthetics in French Modern Literature, 1857–1934." He has published articles in the Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy, the International Journal of Francophone Studies, Postcolonial Studies, and Religions of South Asia. In 2017, Wesleyan University Press published Class Warrior—Taoist Style, his translation from the French of Abdelkébir Khatibi.
JULIANNE VANWAGENEN received her PhD in Italian Studies in 2017 from Harvard University, where she was also a principal at the Berkman Klein Center's research lab in Digital Humanities, metaLAB. She is now a post-doctoral fellow with the University of Michigan-Tsinghua Society of Fellows, the managing-editor of the Journal of the Pirandello Society of America, and a collaborator with the Georgetown University italiansongwriters.com project. Her current book project is a study of singer-songwriters as modern mythologists during Italy's counterculture years. [End Page 136]
