Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
Fernando Armstrong-Fumero is an Assistant Professor at Smith College. He completed a doctorate at Stanford University in 2007, and has conducted ethnographic and archival research in the Mexican state of Yucatan since 1997. He is also engaged in ongoing research on the intertwined cultural histories of anthropology and common sense in the Americas.
Gavin Benke is a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of History at the University of South Florida. His book project examines the cultural and political implications of the Enron Corporation’s history and collapse. In 2014-2015, he will be a fellow at the Clements Center for Southwest Studies at Southern Methodist University.
Stacy Denton (Ph.D.) is an independent scholar whose research focuses on representations of white working-class rurality in post 1945 U.S.
Marita Gronnvoll is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Eastern Illinois University. She earned her Ph.D. in rhetorical theory and criticism from the University of Georgia in 2008. Her research focuses on gender representations in media and popular culture.
Janet Holtman is an Assistant Professor of English at Shawnee State University in Ohio, where she teaches American literature and critical theory. Her work has appeared in Postmodern Culture and The Southern Quarterly [End Page 4]
Wilson Kaiser’s publications include “David Foster Wallace and the Ethical Challenge of Posthumanism,” with Mosaic; and, “Humor after Postmodernism: David Foster Wallace and Proximal Irony,” with Studies in American Humor. His forthcoming publications include “The Micro-politics of Fascism in Carson McCullers’ The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter and Sinclair Lewis’ It Can’t Happen Here,” with Genre; and, “Native American Literature and Écriture Féminine: The Case of Louise Erdrich” with Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature. He is currently working on a monograph entitled American Literature and the Politics of Everyday Life. Wilson is assistant professor of English at Edward Waters College.
David Kieran is Visiting Assistant Professor of American Studies at Franklin & Marshall College. He is the author of Forever Vietnam: How a Divisive War Changed American Public Memory (University of Massachusetts Press, 2014), and is currently working on a book project tentatively entitled Signature Wounds: The Transnational Cultural Politics of Mental Health During the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars.
Lawrence J. Oliver is professor of English at Texas A&M University, where he teaches courses in American, African American, and American Ethnic literatures. He formerly served as an associate dean in the College of Liberal Arts and as an interim director of the Africana Studies program, of which he is an affiliated faculty member. He is the author or editor of three books, and his essays have appeared in such journals as American Literature, American Literary History, and American Literary Realism. [End Page 203]
