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Contributors
G. W. STEPHEN BRODSKY, Royal Roads Military College (Retired), is author of Joseph Conrad’s Polish Soul (2016). His articles and reviews on Conrad have appeared in Conradiana, The Conradian, Conrad: Eastern and Western Perspectives, Zwischen Ost und West: Joseph Conrad im europäischen Gespräch, the Jagiellonian University Conrad Year Book, Modern Fiction Studies, and Conrad Without Borders: Transcultural and Transtextual Perspectives. His earlier reviews of the Cambridge University Press editions—Last Essays and An Outcast of the Islands—have appeared in Joseph Conrad Today. His articles and books in Renaissance Drama criticism, military memoirs, and military literary culture include Gentlemen of the Blade: A Social and Literary History of the British Army Since 1660 (1988).
LINDA DRYDEN is Professor (Emeritus) of English Literature at Edinburgh Napier University. She is the author of Joseph Conrad and the Imperial Romance (1999), The Modern Gothic and Literary Doubles: Stevenson, Wilde and Wells (2003), and Joseph Conrad and H. G. Wells: The Fin de Siècle Literary Scene (2016). Dryden has written numerous articles on Conrad, Wells, and Robert Louis Stevenson, and is on the Executive Committee of the Joseph Conrad Society (UK).
JANA M. GILES is Professor of English at the University of Louisiana at Monroe and has served as the Managing Editor of Conradiana since 2016. She has published articles on Conrad, as well as on Samuel Beckett, James Joyce, J.M. Coetzee, and Jean Rhys, among others. Giles’s current theoretical interest is in the politics and ethics of aesthetics, and she is at work on a monograph, Decolonizing the Sublime. She was elected to Second Vice President of the Joseph Conrad Society of America in 2023.
FIONA HOUSTON has a PhD in First World War propaganda from the University of Aberdeen, with a focus on the government-sponsored material written by John Buchan and Ford Madox Ford. Her research attempts to revise current concepts of Great War propaganda and those who wrote it, and she has published work tracking the term “propaganda” throughout the publication history of the Oxford English Dictionary. She currently works as a Production Editor for The Open University.
ALAN PROCTER is an independent scholar. Following a degree in English language and literature in 1958 from the University of Toronto, he engaged for thirty-some years with teenagers and literature in Toronto suburban-school classrooms, and now continues to enjoy the worth of others’ writing.
RICHARD RUPPEL’s primary research interest is the work of Joseph Conrad—he is a past president of the Joseph Conrad Society of America. His most recent monograph, entitled A Political Genealogy of Joseph Conrad, appeared in 2015. His essay on Nostromo and cognition, “History, Cognition and Nostromo: Conrad’s Explorations of Torture, Trauma, and the Human Rage for Order,” is forthcoming in Modern Fiction Studies. He is at work on a book concerned with Conrad and cognition.
ANNALEE (EDMONDSON) SELLERS specializes in British Modernism and narrative and feminist theory and teaches at Whitefield Academy in Mableton, Georgia. Her current research project claims that Joseph Conrad and Virginia Woolf created new forms for the novel in order to stage a specific type of encounter—that of a mind encountering another mind and, after an initial bewilderment, creating a narrative in order to sufficiently account for it.