Notes on Contributors
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Mitchell Breitwieser is professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. His most recent book is National Melancholy: Mourning and Opportunity in Classic American Literature.
Richard Burgin, the author of fifteen books, has a new collection of stories, Shadow Traffic, published by the Johns Hopkins University Press in Fall 2011. The editor of Boulevard magazine, Burgin has won over the years five Pushcart Prizes for his short fiction.
Richard Dokey’s last collection of fiction, Pale Morning Dun, published by the University of Missouri Press, was nominated for the American Book Award.
Angus Fletcher, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, CUNY, is currently finishing a book on Coleridge and the concept of climate in Western poetry. His Allegory: The Theory of a Symbolic Mode is being published by the Princeton University Press in a new edition, with major additions to the original volume.
Jack L. B. Gohn, when not practicing law in Baltimore, is the author of a column on law and policy in the Maryland Daily Record, a theater critic for BroadwayWorld.com, and ocasional book reviewer. His writings have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The National Catholic Reporter, and on the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra website.
Andrew Hudgins is the author of American Rendering: New and Selected Poems (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2010) and a professor at Ohio State University.
John Dixon Hunt is Emeritus Professor of the History and Theory of Landscape at the University of Pennsylvania. His most recent book, published in December 2011 by Reaktion Books, is A World of Gardens.
Jefferson Hunter, The Hopkins Review’s film critic, is the Helen and Laura Shedd Professor of English and Film Studies at Smith College. His book English Filming, English Writing was published by Indiana University Press in 2010.
Johanna Keller is founding director of the Goldring Arts Journalism Program at the S. I. Newhouse School, Syracuse University. She writes frequently on classical music for The New York Times, L. A. Times, London Standard, and Chronicle of Higher Education, and has been the recipient of the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award. [End Page 158]
X. J. Kennedy’s In a Prominent Bar in Secaucus: New & Selected Poems was an American Library Association notable book in 2008. In 2010 he received the Robert Frost gold medal of the Poetry Society of America.
Karl Kirchwey’s sixth book of poems Mount Lebanon (Marion Wood Books / Putnam’s) appeared in Spring 2011, as did his translation of Paul Verlaine’s first book as Poems Under Saturn (Princeton University Press). Professor of the Arts at Bryn Mawr College, he is serving as Andrew Heiskell Arts Director at the American Academy in Rome from 2010–2013.
William Larson’s photographs are in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum, the Baltimore Museum of Art, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, among others. He is the former director of the Graduate Photography / Digital Imaging program at the Maryland Institute College of Art and has been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Pew fellowship, and four NEA Fellowships in the Arts. His project “Film on Film” was funded in part by the Pew Fellowship in the Arts.
Maggie Murray’s recent fiction has appeared in Slice magazine. She lives in Los Angeles, California.
Jay Rogoff, The Hopkins Review’s dance critic, published his most recent volume of dance-inspired poems, The Art of Gravity, with the LSU Press in Fall 2011.
Mary Jo Salter is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University. She is the author of sixth collections of poems, all published by Knopf, and the editor of The Selected Poems of Amy Clampitt, Knopf, 2010.
Steve Scafidi, a cabinetmaker who lives in West Virginia, teaches poetry in the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars.
Willard Spiegelman is the Hughes Professor of English at Southern Methodist University and editor-in-chief of the Southwest Review. His latest books are Imaginative Transcripts: Selected Literary Essays (Oxford University Press) and Seven Pleasures: Essays on Ordinary Happiness.
Brian Swann’s most recent publication is Words in the Blood: On Native American Translation (University of Nebraska Press, 2011).
David Wagoner has published eighteen books of...
