Reconstruction 11.3 (2011)
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Contributors
Amy Cummins is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Texas Pan American. She writes about and teaches children's and young adult literature. [article]
Ashley Barner just completed her MA in Literature at the University of Delaware and is beginning her PhD at Ohio University. She is interested in women’s emotional and imaginative interactions with texts, both as authors and as readers. She plans to study women’s popular literature and fan fiction as an intersection of these areas. [article]
Jan Goggans is an associate professor of literatures and cultures and a founding faculty member of University of California Merced. She has published articles on Willa Cather, John Steinbeck and Joan Didion. Her book, California on the Breadlines: Dorothea Lange, Paul Taylor, and the Making of a New Deal Narrative (University of California Press, 2010) analyzes the work of Taylor and Lange in constructing a new, and lasting, way of understanding homelessness, migration, and the Great Depression. She has a forthcoming chapter in Blue Collar Pop Culture: From Nascar to Jersey Store, (ABC-CLIO, 2011) titled “Blue Collars and Pink Skirts: Female Office Workers in Early and Golden Age Cinema.”[article]
KC Harrison teaches literature in the Department of Postsecondary Teaching and Learning at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Her article “Talking Books, Toni Morrison, and the Transformation of Narrative Authority: Two Frameworks,” appears in the first collection of essays to address audiobooks, Audiobooks, Literature, and Sound Studies (Routledge 2011). Her work traces a unique trajectory of racial and technological hybridity in American literature, with the radio, records, tape, and digital sound provoking writers to rethink the relationship between the racialized body and expressive voice. In the Spring of 2012 she will pioneer a U.S. literature course that uses free podcasts of poetry and short stories to hone skills of literary analysis through close listening. [article]
Erin Hollis is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English, Comparative Literature, and Linguistics at California State University, Fullerton. She is currently working on several articles, including an article on intersections between Mina Loy and James Joyce. In 2010-2011, thanks to a fellowship from the Humanities Institute at the University at Buffalo and the support of the UB Libraries, she began exploring Joyce’s manuscripts at the University at Buffalo, exploring the references to Lewis Carroll throughout Finnegan’s Wake. She also studies and teaches popular culture, including the Harry Potter series, vampire literature, and comic books. [article]
Cameron Leader-Picone is Assistant Professor of English at Kansas State University. He received his Ph.D. in African and African American Studies from Harvard University in 2009. He has taught in the Harvard Writing Program and at Ithaca College. He is currently working on a book on contemporary African American Literature and its relationship to current constructs of blackness, racial identity, and continuing structures of racial discrimination. His teaching and research interests include contemporary African American literature, the African American literary tradition, postmodern literature, African American popular culture, Twentieth Century American literature, and cultural studies. [article]
Whitney Leader-Picone works as a book designer at Charlesbridge Publishing, an independent publishing house. She has a Masters Degree in Children's Literature from Simmons College in Boston and is an avid reader of pulp fiction. She lives and works in Watertown, MA.[cover artwork]
Linda Ledford-Miller holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Texas at Austin, where she specialized in Literature of the Americas. She is professor at the University of Scranton, where she teaches Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese language, Spanish American and Lusophone literature and culture, and literature of American minorities in English. She has published widely on women writers and travel writing, but recently has a renewed interest in popular culture. [article]
Melissa Phruksachart is a doctoral student in the English program at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York City. Her research interests include girlhood and adolescence in post-World War II America, girls' series fiction, and Orientalism in popular culture. More of her writing can be found at her blog, Eine Flexible Frau. [article]
Laura Scroggs is a graduate student at the University of Toledo. Her M.A. work examines female political authority in Richard Wright’s Uncle Tom’s Children.[article]
Matthew Schneider-Mayerson is completing his dissertation on the relationship between the "peak oil" movement and environmentalism, virtual communities, and libertarianism in contemporary American political culture in the Department of American Studies at the University of Minnesota. He has published articles in The International Journal of Sport & Society, Studies in Popular Culture, American Studies and The Radical History Review. His teaching and research interests include professional sports, popular fiction, environmental history and the nexus between twentieth-century American popular culture and politics. [article]
Gary Shulze and his wife Pat Frovarp have owned the Once Upon a Crime bookstore in Minneapolis, Minnesota since 2002. In 2009, Once Upon a Crime was voted as the “Favorite Mystery Bookstore” by the readers of CrimeSpree magazine, and in 2011 the store received a Raven Award for “outstanding achievement in the mystery field outside the realm of creative writing” from the Mystery Writers of America. Both Gary and Pat write reviews for crime magazines and “blurbs” for book jackets, and in April 2012 they will publish an anthology of short crime fiction, Writes of Spring (Nodin Press), to coincide with Once Upon a Crime’s 25th anniversary. [article]
Beth Walker is a writing consultant at The University of Tennessee at Martin. She holds two M.A. degrees, one in creative writing from The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and the other in the humanities from California State University, Dominguez Hills, for which she wrote a thesis on revision in the Nancy Drew series. Aside from having published in various journals such as New Millennium Writings, Alaska Quarterly Review, and Cream City Review, she has published poetry in Homeworks: An Anthology of Tennessee Writers, and Pass/Fail, an anthology on teaching. She presents regularly on Nancy Drew and her sister sleuths. [article]
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