Contributors
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Greg Barnhisel is an associate professor of English and the director of the First-Year Writing Program at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The article included here comes from his current book project, “Cold War Modernists,” and he has also explored his interests in the intersection of print culture with literary, cultural, and political history in James Laughlin, New Directions, and the Remaking of Ezra Pound (University of Massachusetts Press, 2005) and the collection Pressing the Fight: Print, Propaganda, and the Cold War (University of Massachusetts Press, 2010), which he co-edited with Cathy Turner.
Troy J. Bassett is an assistant professor of English at Indiana University–Purdue University Fort Wayne. He has published articles on British bestseller lists, T. Fisher Unwin’s Pseudonym Library, George Moore, and W. Somerset Maugham. He is also the compiler of At the Circulating Library: A Database of Victorian Fiction, 1837–1901, accessible at www.victorianresearch.org/atcl.
Charlotte Eubanks is an assistant professor of comparative literature, Japanese, and Asian studies at Pennsylvania State University. Her work explores the interstices of material culture, literature, and the ethics of reading. She has recently completed a book Miracles of Book and Body: Buddhist Textual Culture in Medieval Japan (University of California Press, forthcoming 2011), and has written articles on illustrated sutras, modern Japanese literature, and artwork depicting the nuclear aftermath at Hiroshima.
Richard Fine is a professor of English and director of the American studies program at Virginia Commonwealth University. He is the author of West of Eden: Writers in Hollywood, 1928–1940 (Smithsonian Institution Press, 1993) and James M. Cain and the American Authors’ Authority (University of Texas Press, 1992). He is currently at work on a book about press coverage of the military during World War II. [End Page 309]
Leon Jackson is an associate professor of English at the University of South Carolina, Columbia, where he teaches nineteenth-century American literature and the history of the book. He is the author of The Business of Letters: Authorial Economies in Antebellum America (Stanford University Press, 2008), as well as many essays on print culture and antebellum literary history. He is currently writing a book-length study of rumor, reputation, and status in nineteenth-century America.
Sari Kawana is an assistant professor of Japanese at the University of Massachusetts Boston. She is the author of Murder Most Modern: Detective Fiction and Japanese Culture (University of Minnesota Press, 2008). She is currently finishing a book manuscript on the culture and history of literary publishing in modern Japan, and her next research project deals with “educational manga” (gakushū manga), particularly in the genres of history, science, classical literature, and biography.
Spencer D. C. Keralis is a doctoral candidate in English at New York University. He is currently completing a dissertation on violence in representations of children and young adults in antebellum America.
Joseph S. Meisel is a program officer at the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. He is the author of Public Speech and the Culture of Public Life in the Age of Gladstone (Columbia University Press, 2001) and numerous articles and essays on nineteenth- and twentieth-century British political culture.
Alison Rukavina is an instructor in the English and Film Studies Department at the University of Alberta. She is currently finishing a history of the international book trade in the late nineteenth century that examines the business transactions of a number of influential publishers, booksellers, and distributors who pioneered new overseas distribution routes and established social networks of like-minded individuals interested in selling books in emerging colonial and foreign markets. The book, tentatively titled The Development of the International Book Trade (1870–1895): Tangled Networks, will be published by Palgrave Macmillan.
Leslee Thorne-Murphy is an assistant professor of English at Brigham Young University, where she teaches courses in British literature. She has published work on Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Charlotte Yonge, and Victorian short fiction. Her article on Charlotte Yonge’s Bible stories grew out of her interests in scholarly editing, women’s popular literature, and transatlantic print culture. [End Page 310]
