Douglas B. Chambers is former editor of the Southern Quarterly (2005-2011) and associate professor of history at the University of Southern Mississippi. He is author of Murder at Montpelier: Igbo Africans ...

Susan Strehle, a professor of English at Binghamton University, is the author of Fiction in the Quantum Universe. Her work has been published in Critique, Review of Contemporary Fiction, Contemporary ...

Eclectic British author Alan Moore (b. 1953) is one of the most acclaimed and controversial comics writers to emerge since the late 1970s. He has produced a large number of well-regarded comic books and ...

The adoption of the Bill of Rights was the last step in defining the essential elements of American constitutionalism. The process began with the writing of the Constitution, continued through its ratification ...

Vanessa Guignery is professor of contemporary British and postcolonial literature at the École normale supérieure de Lyon in France. She is author of Seeing and Being: Ben Okri’s "The Famished Road" ...

Ryan Roberts is a librarian at Lincoln Land Community College and editorial assistant for Between the Lines. He is also official webmaster for Julian Barnes (www.julianbarnes .com), Ian McEwan (www.ianmcewan.com), ...

Robert J. Haws is former chair and founder of the Department of Public Policy Leadership at the University of Mississippi.

This book is a study of a crucial period in the life of American jazz and popular music. Pearl Harbor Jazz analyses the changes in the world of the professional musician brought about both by the outbreak ...

Because they are so often told as news, contemporary legends force us to reevaluate life as we know it. They confront us with macabre, fantastic, horrific, or hilarious characters and events that seem ...

Gillian Bennett is the author of "Alas, Poor Ghost!": Traditions of Belief in Story and Discourse and Traditions of Belief: Women and the Supernatural and coauthor of the standard legend bibliography and ...