Contributors
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Camille Banks teaches African-American literature and composition at Richard J. Daley College, one of the City Colleges of Chicago. Her scholarship focuses on Africana Studies, particularly Caribbean literature, Anglophone African fiction, and postcolonial theory. In addition, Camille writes fiction and poetry. Presently, she is completing a novel.
Alicia Matheny Beeson is an Assistant Professor of English at West Virginia University at Parkersburg, where she teaches courses in American literature and composition. Her scholarship focuses on twentieth-century American literature, particularly women authors of the Progressive Era. Her present work explores issues of religion, domesticity, childcare, and labor as depicted in early twentieth-century utopian texts by American women. Her essay on women's friendships is forthcoming in the edited collection Reconsidering Flannery O'Connor.
Siobhan Craft Brownson is a Professor of English and the Director of the Master of Liberal Arts program at Winthrop University in Rock Hill, South Carolina, where she teaches British literature from the Romantic to the contemporary periods. Her most recent publication, a chapter on Thomas Hardy's Christmas stories for the Illustrated London News, appears in an essay collection she co-edited with Juliette Schaefer titled Thomas Hardy's Short Stories--New Perspectives.
Rebecca Cepek is the Legal Writing Specialist for Duquesne University's School of Law in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her article on Beowulf is forthcoming. Presently, she is working on a book project that explores the ways in which fiction affects reality and how this relationship intersects with pedagogical practices.
Kayla Forrest is a Ph.D. candidate in American literature and a graduate teaching assistant at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Her research interests include nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature, digital humanities and mapping, and literature of the environment. Her dissertation analyzes American flâneurs and their representations of the space of Paris in their writing. In addition, Kayla co-chairs the MLA Committee on the Status of Graduate Students in the Humanities. She recently completed a Graduate Student Summer Residency with the National Humanities Center.
Richard Gaughran is an Associate Professor of English at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia, where he teaches American literature and film studies. His recent publications have considered the films of Joel and Ethan Coen, films of the American South, and Don DeLillo's The Names.
Michael S. Martin is an Assistant Professor of Languages and Literature at Nicholls State University in Louisiana. His fields include nineteenth-century American literature, early American literature, Appalachian Studies, and Native American Studies. His work has been published in such journals as Postmodern Culture, The Journal of Appalachian Studies, and The Nathaniel Hawthorne Review.
Nicholas Orlando is an adjunct instructor for the Judy Genshaft Honors College at University of South Florida and at Hillsborough Community College. He earned his M.A. in Humanities in Spring 2018 from the University of South Florida. His research focuses on the intersections of film and media studies, journalism, and the melodramatic and investigatory narrative forms they share. In addition to the explorations of journalism, failure, and mediation addressed in his master's thesis, his academic interests include the public paranoia that results from the emergence of misinformation and fake media.
Lyuba Pervushina is an Associate Professor in the Department of World Literature at Minsk State Linguistic University, Belarus. She is the author of the book The Creative Work of Erica Jong in the Context of American Literature (2009) as well as numerous articles on the problems of émigré literature by Eastern and Southern European writers in the United States. Lyuba has participated in conferences in Poland, Lithuania, Ukraine, Russia, and multiple CEA conferences in the United States.
Amanda M. Rogus is presently working on her second and third master's degrees. Her first master's was an MLitt in Shakespeare. Her second will be a MFA from Mary Baldwin University on Shakespeare and Performance with a focus on dramaturgy. Her third degree will be in Educational Psychology from Capella University. Amanda hopes to pursue a Ph.D. in Renaissance Literature after finishing her masters' studies.
Mark Rollins is a Professor of English and Dean of the Humanities Division at Young Harris College. He specializes in nineteenth-century British literature and culture...
