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NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS Essayists J. Robert Baker earned his Ph.D. at the University of Notre Dame. He is Professor of English at Fairmont State University where he directs the Honors Program and chairs the Department of Language and Literature. He has published articles on Flannery O'Connor, Graham Greene, Joseph Conrad, and Iris Murdoch. He has contributed review essays to Christianity and Literature and edited Sourcebooks on Lent, baptism, marriage, the Eucharist, and Mary for Liturgy Training Publications in Chicago. Peter M. Candler, Ir., is Associate Professor of Theology in the Honors College at Baylor University. He is the author of Theology, Rhetoric, Manuduction, and the forthcoming Thomism: A Very Critical Introduction, in addition to numerous articles for Modern Theology, The American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, and Communio. He is also co-editor, with Conor Cunningham, of Transcendence and Phenomenology, Belief and Metaphysics, and The Grandeur ofReason. John F. Desmond is Professor of English Emeritus at Whitman College. He is the author of Risen Sons: Flannery O'Connor's Vision Of History (1987), At the Crossroads: Ethical And Religious Themes in the Writings of Walker Percy (1997), Walker Percy's Search for Community (2005), and Gravity and Grace: Seamus Heaney and the Force ofLight (2009). He has also published numerous essays on Flannery O'Connor, Walker Percy, William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, Seamus Heaney, Graham Greene, Bernard Malamud, Mark Twain, and Don Delillo. Carolyn Michaels Kerr teaches writing and American literature at Salem State College and Montserrat College of Art in Massachusetts. Her fiction, nonfiction, and poetry have appeared in a variety of literary journals. Another article on O'Connor, "Flannery O'Connor in Joyce Carol Oates's 'The Bingo Master" appeared in the Spring 2010 edition of Flannery O'Connor Review. Christina Bieber Lake is Associate Professor of English at Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois. She is the author of The Incarnational Art ofFlannery O'Connor (Mercer UP, 2005). Mark Walters is Professor of English at William Jewell College. His stories and essays have appeared in a number of magazines and journals, including National Lampoon, Word & Image: A Journal ofVerbal / Visual Enquiry, and The Atlantic Monthly. NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS 209 Ralph C. Wood is University Professor of Theology and Literature at Baylor University. His books include The Comedy of Redemption: Christian Faith and Comic Vision in Four American Novelists (University of Notre Dame 1988) and Flannery O'Connor and the Christ-Haunted South (Eerdmans 2004). During the 2010-2011 academic year, he will occupy the Randall Chair of Christian Culture at Providence College in Rhode Island. Poets Jo-Anne Cappeluti teaches at California State University, Fullerton. She has published numerous articles on poets such as W H. Auden, T. S. Eliot, and Wallace Stevens, including an October 2009 article in Philosophy and Literature. Her poems have appeared in publications including Lyric, Literary Review, Avocet, White Pelican Review, and Plainsongs. John Hoppenthaler is an Assistant Professor of English at East Carolina University. His published books of poetry include Lives of Water (2003) and Anticipate the Coming Reservoir (2008). His poems have been included or are forthcoming in West Branch, The Laurel Review, Tygerburning, the textbook Making Poems: 40 Poems with Commentary by the Poet, and the anthology Poetry Calendar. James Najarian teaches nineteenth-century poetry and prose at Boston College. He has published poetry in West Branch, Ararat, and The Mennonite, and has also authored articles and reviews on British literature. He edits the scholarly journal Religion and the Arts. Deborah J. Shore has won first place in two poetry competitions at The Alsop Review and has several other poems included in its print anthology. She has poems forthcoming in Radix and Anglican Theological Review. JeremyPaden is an Assistant Professor of Spanish at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky. His work has been published or is forthcoming in Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review and Atlanta Review. Barbara Wuest teaches in the English Department at Cardinal Stritch University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She has published poems in several journals, including The Paris Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Cincinnati Poetry Review, Wisconsin Academy Review, Oberon, CrossCurrents, Theology Today, and First Things. ...

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