Notes on Contributors

Notes on Contributors J. BOWERS, a PhD student (ABD) in English at the University of Missouri, specializes in nineteenth-century American and British fiction, creative writing , and film studies. She has recently presented scholarship at MMLA, C19, and other national conferences. Two dissertations are currently underway: a short-story collection and a book-length study on the intersections between film adaptation and literary tourism. CHRISTIAN LA CASSAGNÈRE, Professor Emeritus at Université Lumière Lyon 2, has taught English literature and literary theory at French and American universities. He has published essays on nineteenth- and twentieth-century English poets and on the tales of Poe in American and French reviews, and he is the author of books on the major romantic poets. His latest book is a critical biography of John Keats, Les terres perdues (Paris: Editions Aden, 2008). JUSTIN D. EDWARDS is Professor of English at Bangor University, Wales. He is the author of several books, including Postcolonial Literature (Palgrave, 2008); Gothic Passages: Racial Ambiguity and the American Gothic (Iowa Univ. Press, 2003); and Gothic Canada: Reading the Spectre of a National Literature (Univ. of Alberta Press, 2005). He is also the coeditor of Other Routes: 1500 Years of African and Asian Travel Writing (Signal Books, 2006). JAMES M. HUTCHISSON is Professor and Director of Graduate Study in English at The Citadel. He is the author of Poe (Univ. Press of Mississippi, 2005) and Dubose Heyward: A Charleston Gentleman and the World of “Porgy and Bess” (Univ. Press of Mississippi, 2000), among other books on American writers. DOUGLAS LIND is Library Director and Associate Professor at Southern Illinois University School of Law. His research and writings focus on the economics of the nineteenth-century publishing industry. He is the author of Bibliography of American Law School Casebooks, 1870–2004 (Hein, 2006). MATTHEW PANGBORN teaches writing and nineteenth-century African American literature at St. Edward’s University in Austin, Texas. He has published on Poe in the online journal Atlantikos and on film in TechKnowledgies. His current book-in-progress, titled “Founding Others: The Oriental Tales of the C  2010 Washington State University P O E S T U D I E S , VOL. 43, 2010 117 N O T E S O N C O N T R I B U T O R S Early American Republic,” explores Americans’ navigation of an orientalism in their transition as new citizens of a modern nation-state. CHRISTINA ZWARG teaches at Haverford College. She is the author of Feminist Conversations: Fuller, Emerson, and the Play of Reading (Cornell Univ. Press, 1995) and articles in such journals as Cultural Critique, Studies in Romanticism, and Novel. She is currently completing a book on trauma theory and the work of Frederick Douglass and W. E. B. Du Bois titled “The Awful Rehearsal: Crisis and the Black Reconstruction of Democracy.” 118 P O E S T U D I E S ...