Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
JANE BLANCHARD received her doctorate from Rutgers University, where she wrote a dissertation on division in The Faerie Queene. She has published criticism in Pacific Coast Philology, Renascence, South Atlantic Review, and Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching. Her own sonnets have appeared in many venues, including Blue Unicorn, descant, Penwood Review, REAL, and Thema.
LACEY A. CONLEY is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Marquette University. She received her PhD in English from Loyola University Chicago in March, 2012. Her dissertation, “‘The crew / of common playwrights’: Collaboration and Authorial Community in the Early Modern Theater,” is an examination of the impact of the professionalization of playwriting on acts of multiple-authorship, revision, and collaboration in London’s emerging theater industry. Her research interests include collaborative authorship, early modern drama, Milton, and textual criticism.
VLAD DIMA is Assistant Professor of French at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His main research, and first book project, explore the aural narrative planes created by unorthodox manipulations of sound in cinema, particularly in the trans-national context of French and Senegalese cinemas. He has published or has articles forthcoming on Anne Hébert, Tom Ford, Hitchcock, Baudelaire and on various issues of sound in the films of Quentin Tarantino, Djibril-Diop Mambety, Amir Naderi, and Jean-Luc Godard.
KRISTEN INA GRIMES is Assistant Professor of Italian at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia. She received the PhD from the University of Chicago in 2006. Her research centers on Petrarch and the lyric tradition, the history of humanism and interdisciplinary relations between literary and visual traditions. She is the author of several articles, which have appeared in Latomus: Revue d’Etudes Latines, Lectura Petrarce, and The Medieval Feminist Forum. [End Page 165]
STACEY KIKENDALL is currently teaching at the University of New Mexico, but in the fall she will start as an Assistant Professor at Park University. She has published articles on the film Bride and Prejudice and on using the graphic novel V for Vendetta in the composition classroom. Her primary research interests, however, involve the intersection of vision, gender, and empire in nineteenth-century British literature.
KASHAMA MULAMBA is currently the chair of the Department of English and Modern Languages at Olivet Nazarene University in Bourbonnais, IL. He teaches linguistics and ESL courses. His most recent publication “Social Beliefs for the Realization of the Speech Acts of Apology and Complaint as Defined in Ciluba, French, and English” appeared in the December 2009 issue of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA) Quarterly (Belgium). In addition to other professional awards and recognition, he received the Fulbright-Hays scholarship to complete his graduate program (1985-1991), the 2010 Fulbright-Hays Seminars Abroad Award to China, and most recently, the 2012-2013 Fulbright-Hays Teaching/Research Award. His field of interest is sociolinguistics, pragmatics, and language and culture, with emphasis on foreign and second language teaching and learning.
MICKI NYMAN is an Assistant Professor of English at Fayetteville State University, one of the eighteen institutions in the University of North Carolina system. She has published work on Dorothy Richardson, Virginia Woolf, Radclyffe Hall, Frida Kahlo, Jacques Derrida, Mary Ann Caws, and Julie Taymor. Her abiding research interest is the way subjectivity is mediated in literature, film, and philosophy. Micki Nyman lives in beautiful Haymount, located in Fayetteville, North Carolina, with her dog Rudy and cat Sophie. [End Page 166]
PATRICIA VILCHES is Associate Professor of Spanish and Italian at Lawrence University. She is the co-editor of Seeking Real Truths: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Machiavelli, published by Brill in 2007. She is currently working on a book on Machiavelli, Cervantes and 19th-century Latin America. She has also written and published on Cervantes and 19th-century Chilean author Alberto Blest Gana. [End Page 167]
