Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
Cates Baldridge (baldridg@middlebury.edu) is the Phillip and Sarah Stewart Professor of English and American Literatures at Middlebury College. His publications include The Dialogics of Dissent in the English Novel (1994), Graham Greene’s Fictions (2000), and Prisoners of Prester John (2012), as well as articles on James Hogg, Emily Brönte, Thackeray, and various aspects of nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature.
Claire Barber (cbarber3@illinois.edu) is a PhD candidate at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign who works in literary modernism and disability studies. This summer she will defend her dissertation, “Aesthetics, Poetics, and Cognition: A New Minor Literature by Autists and Modernists.”
Rebecca Colesworthy (rebecca.colesworthy@gmail.com) is currently a visiting scholar in English at New York University, before which she was a faculty fellow/assistant professor of literary cultures at NYU’s Draper Master’s Program. Her writings have been published or are forthcoming in Angelaki, Modernist Cultures, and Women’s Studies Quarterly. She is also co-editing with Peter Nicholls a special issue of Textual Practice on the financial crisis and abstraction, and holds a PhD in English from Cornell.
John Connor (jconnor@colgate.edu) is an assistant professor of English at Colgate University. His research interests include twentieth-century British literature, historiography and the intellectual culture of international Communism. He is at work on a manuscript titled Mid-Century Romance: Historical Fiction after Modernism, which reads the reactivation of the historical novel in the culture of the organized Left alongside more canonical works of British high and late modernism. His most recent publication is a chapter on twentieth-century historical fiction in the Blackwell Companion to British Literature (2012).
Katherine A. Fama (katefama@gmail.com) is a Volkswagen Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at the JFK Institute of North American Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin. She received her PhD from Washington University in St. Louis in English and American Literature in 2013. Her current research traces the impact of fin-de-siècle urban domestic architecture on the emergence of the single woman in the American novel.
Philip C. Kolin (philip.kolin@usm.edu) is the University Distinguished Professor in the College of Arts and Letters at the University of Southern Mississippi [End Page 199] where he also serves as the editor of the Southern Quarterly. He has published extensively on Tennessee Williams and other contemporary American playwrights with books on Adrienne Kennedy, David Rabe, Edward Albee, and Suzan-Lori Parks. Wadsworth/Cengage recently published the 10th edition of Kolin’s Successful Writing at Work. A poet as well, Kolin’s newest book of poems is entitled Reading God’s Handwriting: Poems (Kaufmann Publishing, 2012).
Janina Levin (jlevin@holyfamily.edu) received her PhD in English from Temple University in 2010. She teaches literature and first year writing at Holy Family University. Her article “Empathy, Cuckoldry and the Helper’s Vicarious Imagination in Ulysses” is forthcoming in James Joyce Quarterly. She is currently working on a book project about helper characters in nineteenth and twentieth century novels.
Elizabeth Mannion (mannion@temple.edu) earned her PhD at Trinity College, Dublin, and currently teaches in the Department of English at Temple University. Her monograph The Urban Plays of the Early Abbey Theatre: Beyond O’Casey is forthcoming from Syracuse University Press.
Christopher Mcvey (cmcvey@wisc.edu) is a PhD candidate in English literature at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His dissertation, “This Storm We Call Progress: Nationalism and Historiography in Twentieth Century Literature” examines the way in which key modernist and contemporary writers — namely James Joyce, HD, Ezra Pound, Michael Ondaatje, and Salman Rushdie — employ spatial metaphors to represent history, counteracting linear or teleological narratives of progress. His research interests include Anglo-American modernism, experimental writing, transnationalism, postcolonial literature and theory, and the avant-garde.
Adam Meehan (ameehan@email.arizona.edu) recently completed his PhD at the University of Arizona. He is currently working on a book project that explores the discursive and ideological dimensions of subjectivity as it is represented in modernist fiction. His research interests include American, British, and Anglophone literature of the twentieth century, the history and theory of the novel, and critical theory.
Alex Moffett (amoffett@providence...
