Contributors
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Jacques Berlinerblau is an Associate Professor and Director of the Program for Jewish Civilization at Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. He holds separate doctorates in ancient Near Eastern languages and literatures, and sociology. Dr. Berlinerblau has published on a wide variety of issues ranging from the composition of the Hebrew Bible, to the sociology of heresy, to modern Jewish intellectuals, to Jewish American literature. His articles on these and other subjects have appeared in Biblica, Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, Semeia, Biblical Interpretation, Journal of Northwest Semitic Languages, Hebrew Studies, Journal of the American Academy of Religion, and History of Religions. He has published five books, including: Heresy in the University: The Black Athena Controversy and the Responsibility of American Intellectuals (Rutgers UP, 1999); The Secular Bible: Why Nonbelievers Must Take Religion Seriously (Cambridge UP, 2005), and Thumpin’ It: The Use and Abuse of the Bible in Today’s Presidential Politics (Westminster John Knox, 2007). His most recent book, How to Be Secular: A Call to Arms for Religious Freedom (Houghton) was released September 2012.
James D. Bloom has taught literature and writing at Muhlenberg College since 1982. He is the author of Hollywood Intellect (Lexington, 2009), Gravity Fails (Praeger, 2003), The Literary Bent (U of Pennsylvania P, 1997), Left Letters (Columbia UP, 1992) and The Stock of Available Reality (Bucknell UP, 1984). His essays and reviews have appeared in American Literary History, American Studies, Contemporary Literature, Style, the New York Times Book Review, and the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Claudia Franziska Brühwiler is a political scientist and a post-doctoral researcher at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. In her research, she focuses on American political culture and on the interplay of politics and literature. Her first book, Political Initiation in the Novels of Philip Roth, was published by Bloomsbury/Continuum in 2013
Luminita M. Dragulescu is an Assistant Professor of English at Virginia Union University in Richmond, VA. She holds a PhD from West Virginia University and a BA from the University of Bucharest, Romania. Her research interests lie at the interface of contemporary American literature, black American literature and culture, race and trauma/psychoanalytical theories, [End Page 145] memory and life-writing studies. Dr. Dragulescu has published articles in scholarly journals, anthologies, and an encyclopedia, on Salman Rushdie, William Faulkner, James Baldwin, Art Spiegelman, John Edgar Wideman, Katherine Stockett, Mikhail Bulgakov, and Boris Pasternak.
James Duban is professor of English and Director of the Office for Nationally Competitive Scholarships at the University of North Texas. He is the author of Melville’s Major Fiction: Politics, Theology, and Imagination (Northern Illinois UP, 1983), The Nature of True Virtue: Theology, Psychology, and Politics in the Writings of Henry James, Sr., Henry James, Jr., and William James (Fairleigh Dickinson, 2001), and Be a College Achiever: The Complete Guide to Academic Stardom (Trafford, 2005). His articles have appeared in Philip Roth Studies, American Literature, Philological Quarterly, the Harvard Theological Review, and Journal of Speculative Philosophy, and Philosophy and Literature, among others.
David Houston is a visiting lecturer of Russian and English at Stetson University. His research focuses primarily on representations of loss and mourning. His work has appeared in Pushkin Review, and he has a forthcoming article on Mikhail Lermontov’s tropes of repetition. He is completing his dissertation (University of Wisconsin-Madison) on the rhetoric of the Russian elegy.
Inbar Kaminsky is a PhD candidate in the English and American Studies Department at Tel Aviv University. Her doctoral thesis examines the alternative to corporeality in contemporary literature, exploring metaphorical bodies in novels such as Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, Don DeLillo’s Falling Man, and Philip Roth’s Nemesis. She has been previously published in Philip Roth Studies, and she contributed essays to the collections Michael Chabon’s America: Magical Words, Secret Worlds, and Sacred Spaces (Rowman & Littlefield) and the upcoming Critical Reflections on Audience and Narrativity – New Connections, New Perspectives (Ibidem-Verlag).
Patrick Silvey received his MA in English at Truman State University in the spring of 2011. During his time at Truman, Patrick worked as a graduate teaching assistant and in 2011 was awarded the Midwest Association of Graduate School...
