Ken Koltun-Fromm is professor of religion at Haverford College and author of four books, including Material Culture and Jewish Thought in America and Imagining Jewish Authenticity: Vision and Text in ...

Seamus O’Malley is assistant professor of English at Stern College for Women, Yeshiva University. He is author of Making History New: Modernism and Historical Narrative and coeditor of Ford Madox Ford ...

Deborah Clarke is vice provost for academic personnel in the University Provost's Office and professor in the Department of English at Arizona State University. She is author of Driving Women: Fiction ...

Dwight A. McBride is Leon Forrest Professor and Chair of African American Studies at Northwestern University and the author of Why I Hate Abercrombie & Fitch: Essays on Race and Sexuality in America and ...

Kenneth Holditch (1933-2022) was professor emeritus at the University of New Orleans, editor of the Tennessee Williams Journal, and coeditor (with Mel Gussow) of the Library of America edition of Tennessee ...

Pauline Adema is staff folklorist for the Dutchess County Arts Council in Poughkeepsie, New York. She teaches at the Culinary Institute of America (Hyde Park, New York) and is a culinary anthropologist-consultant. ...

A. Robert Lee, a professor of American literature at Nihon University in Tokyo, is author of Designs of Blackness: Mappings in the Literature and Culture of Afro-America and, with Gerald Vizenor, Postindian ...

Noel Polk (1943-2012) was professor of English at the University of Southern Mississippi and Mississippi State University, author of many critical studies on Welty and Faulkner, and coeditor of the Library ...

Jefferson Humphries (1955-2014) was chair of French studies at Louisiana State University and is author of The Puritan and the Cynic: The Literary Moralist in America and France and editor of Conversations ...