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Notes on Contributors
Kristen L. Olson is Associate Professor of English at Penn State University's Beaver Campus. Her recent book, The Patterns That Make Poetry, will be published by Routledge in 2024, and she is currently developing a monograph showing how visually informed patterns found in emblem books and devotional poetry influenced Milton's poetic design. She has published widely on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century poetics, as well as on works that share commonalities across temporal boundaries.
Dale Pattison is Associate Professor of English at Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi. His current book project, The Politics of Progress, argues that neoliberalism's reconfiguring of human subjectivity demands new approaches for understanding Western narrative traditions valorizing liberal individualism, personal freedom, and human agency. His most recent work has been published or is forthcoming in Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, American Studies, and JNT: Journal of Narrative Theory.
Rochelle Rives is Professor of English at the Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York. She is the author of two books, Modernist Impersonalities: Affect, Authority and the Subject (2012) and more recently, The New Physiognomy: Face, Form, and Modern Expression (2024).
Jay Shelat is Assistant Professor of English at Ursinus College, where he teaches courses in contemporary culture. His work can be found or is forthcoming in MELUS, Studies in American Fiction, TSLL, Avidly, and elsewhere. He is currently writing his first monograph, which explores how post-9/11 legal and social policy affect families of color.
Gale Temple is Associate Professor of English at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, where he specializes in early American literature and culture. His work has appeared in such venues as Studies in American Fiction, Arizona Quarterly, Textual Practice, J19, Leviathan, The Nathaniel Hawthorne Review, and ESQ. He is currently working on two book projects: a critical companion to life and writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne, and a monograph about early American literary and cultural portrayals of addiction.
期刊介绍:
Studies in American Fiction suspended publication in the fall of 2008. In the future, however, Fordham University and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York will jointly edit and publish SAF after a short hiatus; further information and updates will be available from time to time through the web site of Northeastern’s Department of English. SAF thanks the College of Arts and Sciences at Northeastern University for over three decades of support. Studies in American Fiction is a journal of articles and reviews on the prose fiction of the United States, in its full historical range from the colonial period to the present.