Notes on Contributors

Donna Campbell is Professor of English at Washington State University. She has written Resisting Regionalism: Gender and Naturalism in American Fiction, 1880–1915 (1997), and has published widely in scholarly journals on American literature. She writes the annual “Fiction: 1900 to the 1930s” chapter for American Literary Scholarship. Her next book will be a study of women writers of naturalism.

Edward P. Comentale is Associate Professor of English at Indiana University. His first book was Modernism, Cultural Production, and the British Avant-Garde, and he is now at work on a monograph treating modernism, regionalism, and popular music entitled The State I’m In: Modernism and American Popular Music. Recent articles deal with the modernist Midwest, William Faulkner, country music, and the Coen brothers.

Susan V. Donaldson is the National Endowment for the Humanities Professor of English and American Studies at William and Mary College. She has written Competing Voices: The American Novel, 1865–1914 (1998), and coedited, with Anne Goodwyn Jones, Haunted Bodies: Gender and Southern Texts (1997). Current projects include books on the politics of storytelling in the US South and on William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, Richard Wright, and the demise of Jim Crow.

Leigh Anne Duck teaches at the University of Memphis, where she is Associate Professor of English and an affiliate of the Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change and the Center for Research on Women. Her book, The Nation’s Region: Southern Modernism, Segregation, and U.S. Nationalism, appeared in 2006, and she has begun a new cross-cultural project on literature of the US South and South Africa.

Mark Eaton specializes in American literature, African-American literature, American ethnic literature, postmodernism, and film studies at Azusa Pacific University, where he Professor of English. He is coeditor, with Emily Griesinger, of a volume of essays called The Gift of Story: Narrating Hope in a Postmodern World (2006) and has published widely on American literature and culture in scholarly journals.

Susan Edmunds is the author of Out of Line: History, Psychoanalysis and Montage in H. D.’s Long Poems (1994) and Grotesque Relations: Modernist Domestic Fiction and the U.S. Welfare State (2008). She is a professor of English at Syracuse University, where she specializes in twentieth-century American literature and culture, African-American studies, modernism and the avant-garde, and experimental fiction.

Barbara Foley is Professor of English at Rutgers University-Newark, where she teaches Marxist theory, US literary radicalism, and African-American literature. Her books include Telling the Truth: The Theory and Practice of Documentary Fiction (1986), Radical Representations: Politics and Form in U.S. Proletarian Fiction, 1929–1941 (1993), and Spectres of 1919: Class and Nation in the Making of the New Negro (2003). She is currently working on a book about politics, history, and the making of Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man.

Richard Godden is Professor of English at the University of California at Irvine, where he teaches courses in twentieth-century American literature, literature of the American South, and the relation between economic and literary forms. He is the author of Fictions of Capital: Essays on the American Novel from James to Mailer (1990), Fictions of Labor: William Faulkner and the South’s Long Revolution (1997), and William Faulkner: An Economy of Complex Words (2007).

Matthew Pratt Guterl is Associate Professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies at Indiana University, where he also directs the American Studies Program. He has written American Mediterranean: Southern Slaveholders in the Age of Emancipation (2008) and The Color of Race in America, 1900–1940 (2001), and coedited, with James T. Campbell and Robert Lee, Race, Nation, and Empire in American History (2007).

George B. Handley is Professor of Humanities at Brigham Young University. His books include New World Poetics: Nature and the Adamic Imagination of Walt Whitman, Pablo Neruda, and Derek Walcott (2007), Postslavery Literatures in the Americas: Family Portraits in Black and White (2000), Caribbean Literature and the Environment: Between Culture and Nature (2005) (ed.), and America’s Worlds and the World’s Americas (2006) (ed.).

William R. Handley is Associate Professor of English at the University of Southern California. Past President of the Western Literature Association, he is the author of Marriage, Violence, and the Nation in the American Literary West (2002), and coeditor, with Nathaniel Lewis, of True West: Authenticity and the American West (2004). He has also published essays on Virginia Woolf, Toni Morrison, LA freeways, and Mormonism, among other topics, and is the editor of a forthcoming book on the film Brokeback Mountain.

Hsuan L. Hsu has recently been appointed Assistant Professor of English at the University of California at Davis. He is completing a manuscript entitled Scales of Identification: Geography, Affect, and Nineteenth-Century U. S. Literature, and has published on contemporary literature, Asian-American literature, film, regionalism, and the theory of space and cultural production.

Rita Keresztesi is Associate Professor of English at the University of Oklahoma, where her research and teaching focus primarily on twentieth-century American literature and culture, with an emphasis on issues of ethnicity, race, and class. Her book, Strangers at Home: American Ethnic Modernism between the World Wars, was published in 2005. She is currently working on a new book that examines the cultural and intellectual exchanges between African-American and Afro-Caribbean artists and thinkers.

Delia Konzett is Assistant Professor of English and Cinema/American/Women’s Studies at the University of New Hampshire. She is the author of Ethnic Modernisms: Anzia Yezierska, Zora Neale Hurston, Jean Rhys, and the Aesthetics of Dislocation (2003) and is currently working on a new project on war and Orientalism in Hollywood WWII film. Her teaching interests include modernism, cinema, film theory, ethnic writing, and the representation of race in film and literature.

Andrew Lawson teaches American literature of the nineteenth century through the present in the School of Cultural Studies at Leeds Metropolitan University. He is the author of Walt Whitman and the Class Struggle (2006) and is completing a book to be called Downwardly Mobile: American Realism and the Lower Middle Class. He has also published on Mark Twain and Stephen Crane.

Christopher Looby teaches at the University of California at Los Angeles, where he is Professor of English, specializing in United States literature of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and Gay/Lesbian/Queer Studies. He is editor of The Complete Civil War Journal and Selected Letters of Thomas Wentworth Higginson (2000) and author of Voicing America: Language, Literary Form, and the Origins of the United States (1996).

Heather Love is the M. Mark and Esther K. Watkins Assistant Professor in the Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania. Her interests include gender studies and queer theory, the literature and culture of modernity, affect studies, film and visual culture, psychoanalysis, race and ethnicity, and critical theory. She is the author of Feeling Backward: Loss and the Politics of Queer History (2007), and is working on a project on Erving Goffman called The Stigma Archive.

John T. Matthews is Professor of English and American Studies at Boston University. He is the author of The Play of Faulkner’s Language (1982), ‘The Sound and the Fury’: Faulkner and the Lost Cause (1990), and the forthcoming William Faulkner: Seeing Through the South (2009). He is currently completing a book on the US South and modern fiction called Look Away, Look Awry: The Problem of the South in the American Imagination.

Justus Nieland is an assistant professor of English at Michigan State University. He works in modernism, the avant-garde, and film studies, and is the author of Feeling Modern: The Eccentricities of Public Life (2008). He is writing a book on David Lynch for the Contemporary Film Directors series at the University of Illinois Press, and coauthoring a book, with Jennifer Fay, on film noir and the cultures of globalization.

Patrick O’Donnell is Professor of English at Michigan State University, where he specializes in modern and contemporary American literature, postmodern literature and theory, and literature and film. He is the author of John Hawkes (1982), Passionate Doubts: Designs of Interpretation in Contemporary American Fiction (1986), Echo Chambers: Figuring Voice in Modern Narrative (1992), and Latent Destinies: Cultural Paranoia in Contemporary U.S. Narrative (2000). He is writing The American Novel Now: Contemporary American Fiction Since 1980 for Wiley-Blackwell.

Jeanne Follansbee Quinn is Director of the Program in History and Literature at Harvard University. She has coedited, with Ann Keniston, Literature after 9/11 (2008) and is completing a book entitled Democratic Aesthetics: Popular Front Antifascism.

Eric Rauchway is Professor of History at the University of California at Davis. The author of Blessed Among Nations: How the World Made America (2006), Murdering McKinley: The Making of Theodore Roosevelt’s America (2003), and The Refuge of Affections: Family and American Reform Politics, 1900–1920 (2001), he is currently working on a book entitled The Gift Outright: The West, the South, and America, 1867–1937.

Charles J. Rzepka is Professor of English at Boston University. He is the author of Detective Fiction (2005), Sacramental Commodities: Gift, Text, and the Sublime in De Quincey (1995), The Self as Mind: Vision and Identity in Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Keats (1986), and numerous articles on British Romanticism and detective fiction. He is coediting, with Lee Horsley, the Blackwell Companion to Crime Fiction.

Jani Scandura is Associate Professor of English at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of Down in the Dumps: Place, Modernity, and American Depression (2008) and coeditor, with Michael Thurston, of Modernism, Inc.: Body, Memory, Capital (2001). She is working on a new book entitled Suitcase: Fragments on Memory, Matter, and Motion.

Michelle Stephens published Black Empire: The Masculine Global Imaginary of Caribbean Intellectuals in the U. S., 1914–1962 in 2005. She is at work on a second project provisionally entitled “Black Acts: Race, Masculinity and Performance in the New World.” Associate Professor of English at Colgate College, she specializes in American, African-American, and Caribbean literatures.

Michael Trask writes on the intersections of queer theory and feminism, high and low culture, and social theory and traditional literary criticism, and teaches in the Department of English at the University of Kentucky. He is the author of Cruising Modernism: Class and Sexuality in American Literature and Social Thought (2003) and is currently working on a book called Camp Stories: Mass Culture, School Culture, and the New Social Movements.

Nancy Woloch teaches history at Barnard College, Columbia University. Her publications include: Women and the American Experience (4th edn, 2006), The American Century: A History of the United States Since the 1990s (6th edn, 2008), The Enduring Vision: A History of the American People (6th edn, 2008), and Early American Women: A Documentary History (2nd edn, 2002). She is working on a book on protective labor laws, 1890s–1990s.

Jeremy Yudkin is a professor of Music at Boston University and Visiting professor of music at Oxford. He is the author of eight books on various aspects of music, including Music in Medieval Europe (1989) and Understanding Music (1996). He has recently published two books on jazz, The Lenox School of Jazz: A Vital Chapter in the History of American Music and Race Relations (2006) and Miles Davis, Miles Smiles, and the Invention of Post Bop (2007).