Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
constance beitzel is a PhD candidate researching the insertion of forms, themes, and symbols of birth control technologies into nineteenth-and twentieth- century American texts, particularly in connection with gambling and changing formulas of maternal management. She is also cofounder and editor of the online literary magazine, Cowboy Jamboree.
jeremy de chavez is assistant professor of English in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of Macau. Prior to his appointment at UM, he taught at De La Salle University, Manila. His research interests are in the areas of critical and cultural theory, postcolonial studies, global Anglophone literature, and the cultural politics of affects, emotions, and feelings. His articles have appeared in a variety of journals, including Kritika Kultura, The Explicator, ANQ, and Kemanusiaan: The Asian Journal of Humanities. De Chavez is currently working on a book project provisionally titled Positive Affects and the Postcolonial Condition. He received his PhD from Queen's University, Kingston, under the supervision of Asha Varadharajan.
janet feight is an associate professor of English at Shawnee State University in Portsmouth, Ohio, where she teaches American Literature and American Studies. She received her MA from Ohio University and her PhD from the Pennsylvania State University. Her essays on American film and literature have appeared in Postmodern Culture, The Southern Quarterly, American Studies, and the Journal of Appalachian Studies.
michele janette is the Donnelly Professor of English and former department head of Women's Studies at Kansas State University. Her publications on Vietnamese American literary texts include analyses of Tony Bui's film Three Seasons, Lan Cao's novel Monkey Bridge, Tran Van Dinh's novel No Passenger on the River, and Monique Truong's novel Bitter in the Mouth. She is also the editor of the anthology Mỹ Việt: Vietnamese American Literature, 1962-2011.
mike lesiuk is a sessional lecturer at the University of Waterloo in Canada. He teaches courses on writing, rhetoric, and British literature, and has also published on alt-ac careers for humanities PhDs. His dissertation, The Urban Web: Metonymic Representation in the Work of Charles Dickens and George Gissing, looks at the ways in which metonymy can figure unsettling and unthought interconnections in the Victorian urban world. He is particularly interested in uses of the figure that break the "rules" of the figure by blurring the boundary between metonymy and metaphor.
heather mccracken is an English Instructor at Winona State University. Her research interests include issues of race, class, and cultural identity in Irish literature, modernism, and Native American resistance narratives as examined through postcolonial and transnational perspectives. Broadly speaking, her research attends to the ways that people use writing to resist and combat oppression. She has publications in the F. Scott Fitzgerald Review, the James Joyce Literary Supplement, and the Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics.
kevin swafford is the author of Class in Late-Victorian Britain: the Narrative Concern with Social Hierarchy and its Representation (2007) and he has published numerous articles on Victorian and Edwardian writers. He is currently completing a book on Poverty, George Orwell, Jack London, and J. B. Priestley. When not teaching in Illinois, he lives in the San Bernardino Mountains of Southern California.
rachel walerstein is a doctoral candidate (ABD) at the University of Iowa in the Department of English. Her research interests are in masculinity studies, queer theory, affect studies, and nineteenth-and twentieth-century American literature. She is currently at work on her dissertation, Masculine Gestures: On Imitation and Initiation in Modernism.
