Notes on Contributors
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Elizabeth Addison retired in 2012 as an Associate Professor in the English Department of Western Carolina University, where she served seven years as director of composition and five years as department head. She is working on a book exploring facts and implications of Emerson’s reading and association with Quakers. Her most recent publication is the essay “Families and Friendships” in The Oxford Handbook of Transcendentalism, ed. Joel Myerson, Sandra Harbert Petrulionis, and Laura Dassow Walls (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010): 534–536.
Jeremiah Hickey is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Rhetoric, Communication, & Theatre at St. John’s University in New York. He has recently served on the National Communication Association (NCA) Legislative Assembly as Chair for the NCA’s Communication and Law Division. His research includes the intersection between legal rhetoric and political philosophy, especially the rhetorical constructions of rights and democracy. Published articles include, “On Philosophy in American Law.” Review of On Philosophy in American Law, ed Francis J. Mootz, III. Rhetoric & Public Affairs 13.4 (2010): 751 – 754; “David Riesman and First Amendment Jurisprudence: From the “Power of the State,” to “Protection of Autonomy,” to “Intent to Intimidate.” Free Speech Yearbook (2009): 35—49; “Rhetorical Communities and the New Federalism,” Engaging Argument Alta Conference Proceedings, (2005): 142–147.
M. Jimmie Killingsworth is Professor of English at Texas A&M University, where he teaches American literature and rhetoric. He is the author of such books as Ecospeak: Rhetoric and Environmental Politics in America (co-authored with Jacqueline S. Palmer, Carbondale: Southern Illinois University, 1992; rpt. 2012); Walt Whitman and the Earth: A Study in Ecopoetics (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2004); Appeals in Modern Rhetoric: An Ordinary Language Approach (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University, 2005); and The Cambridge Introduction to Walt Whitman (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007).
Nicholas Lawrence is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of South Carolina Lancaster. His areas of scholarly interest include early and nineteenth-century American literature, literature of the American West, Science Fiction literature, and the novels of Cormac McCarthy. He has published peer-reviewed articles on Francis Parkman’s Oregon Trail and Herman Melville’s Typee. His most recent publication is “‘I wont tell you you can save yourself because you cant’: The Western Formula and the Removal of the Hero in No Country for Old Men and Blood Meridian.” In Critical Insights: Cormac McCarthy. Ed. David Cremean (Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 2012): 234–254.
Colleen C. O’Brien is an Assistant Professor of Early American Literature at the University of South Carolina-Upstate. She completed this essay while a Fulbright Research Chair in North American Studies at the University of Western Ontario. She has published essays about nineteenth-century race relations in ESQ, American Quarterly, and [End Page 186] African American Review. The University of Virginia Press will publish her first book, Race, Romance, and Rebellion: Literatures of the Americas in the Nineteenth Century, later this year. She thanks USC-Upstate’s SARS program for supporting this project.
Lee Rozelle is the author of Ecosublime: Environmental Awe and Terror from New World to Oddworld. He is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Montevallo and has published scholarly articles in journals such as Twentieth-Century Literature, ISLE, Canadian Literature, and Studies in the Novel.
Michelle R. Sizemore is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Kentucky. She is currently working on her book manuscript, National Enchantment: Time, Sovereignty, and the Vanishing State, 1790–1830.
Cynthia Wachtell, a Research Associate Professor of American Studies at Yeshiva University, is the author of War No More: The Antiwar Impulse in American Literature, 1861–1914 (Louisiana State University Press, 2010). Her essays on American antiwar writing, and war writing more broadly, have appeared in assorted academic journals, essay collections, magazines, the New York Times, the Huffington Post, and elsewhere. She earned her PhD in the History of American Civilization from Harvard University. [End Page 187]
