Reconstruction Vol. 14, No. 3
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Contributors
Sarah Ager is an independent scholar and English language teacher in Bologna, Italy, and graduate of the University of Leicester, UK. Her main research interest is interfaith dialogue which inspired her to create the collaborative "Interfaith Ramadan" project on her blog: http://saritaagerman.blogspot.it/
Mustafa Bal is currently an assistant professor and the (founding) chairman of the department of English language and literature at the TOBB University of Economics and Technology. He specializes in drama/theatre theory as well as in comparative literary and cultural studies that cover subjects on British and Turkish literatures and cultures. He is the editor-in-chief of The Human journal and the co-editor of Granada Edebiyat Dergisi. Apart from his poems, translations, papers, and essays that appear in national and international journals, Dr. Bal is also the Turkish translator of James Joyce's "The Dead" (as Ölüler), N. Gogol's "The Overcoat" (as Palto), and D. Sacerdoti's Dreams (as Rüyalar). He may be reached by email at mustafabal2005@gmail.com or via twitter @mustafabal.
Yann Calbérac is a geographer and an assistant professor at University of Reims (EA 2076 Habiter, France). His work deals with the history and epistemology of geography and with social demand for geography.
Ralph Crane and Lisa Fletcher both teach in the English programme at the University of Tasmania. They are the co-authors of Cave: Nature and Culture, a forthcoming volume in Reaktion Books's "Earth" series, and co-editors of a new scholarly edition of Robert Michael Ballantyne's seminal island adventure novel, The Coral Island. They have also co-written articles published or forthcoming in English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920, The Journal of Victorian Literature and Culture, and Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment. They are currently writing a monograph, Island Genres, Genre Islands, for Rowman & Littlefield's new series, "Rethinking the Island."
Dustin Crowley currently teaches in the English Department at the University of Kansas, where he received his PhD in African Literature. His work aims to bring into more productive discussion the fields of postcolonialism, geocriticism, and ecocriticism through their relevance to African authors often dealing centrally with issues of ecological crisis and large- and small-scale exploitation in their writing. This work was most recently published in Research in African Literatures.
Michelle Dreiding is a research and teaching assistant at the English Department of the University of Zurich. She holds a Lizenziats degree (M.A.) in French and English Literature from the University of Zurich. Her research interests include narratives of trauma, psychoanalytical theory, modern and postmodern literature, and film. Dreiding is currently working on her PhD thesis on the chronotopic representation of beginnings in American literature.
Angela Flury is an associate professor of English at Depauw University. She received her Ph.D. in comparative literature from the University of California, Davis, and her research and teaching interests are in the history of the novel, world literature, translation studies, cinema, and the pedagogy of writing. She has translated excerpts of books by Christa Wolf (in Absinthe: New European Writing and PMLA). She edited, with Hervé Regnauld, the issue "Multilingual Realities in Translation" for the online journal Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture 11.1 (2011), and most recently, with Alan Clinton, the issue "How Did I Write That? Reflections on Singularity in the Creative Process," Reconstruction 13.1 (2013).
Matt Hudson is a graduate student in literature at Texas State University.
Julia Kröger is a research assistant and Ph.D. student at the University of Paderborn in Germany. She is currently working on a dissertation entitled "Paris vécu - the Construction of Social Space in Émile Zola's Naturalist Writings." Her research interests include nineteenth-century French literature and culture, the intersections of literature and science, as well as sensory and spatial theory.
Jessica Maucione is an associate professor of Multi-ethnic Literatures, Film, and Women's and Gender Studies at Gonzaga University. She practices anti-racist pedagogy and specializes in space and place theory and race and ethnic studies. Her publications include articles on Edward P. Jones, Leslie Marmon Silko, Karen Tei Yamashita, Don DeLillo, and John Fante.
Adam R. McKee is a PhD candidate in literature at Florida State University. His research focuses largely on transnational modernism and postmodernism with a secondary emphasis on urban studies and urban theory. He is currently working on a project studying the intersections between French geographer Henri Lefebvre and the writings of modernist authors in America, England, and France. He has an essay on approaches to teaching Ernest Hemingway and the Parisian avant-garde in a forthcoming collection from Kent State University Press.
Rogério de Melo Franco received his MA from the University of Campinas, Brazil. He is currently writing about literature from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and looking for new ways of reading them. His most recent focus is on the poetic description of visual features, intersections between poetry and territory, and literary spatial-temporal connections.
İ.Murat Öner is a teaching assistant at the International Burch University in Sarajevo. He is preparing his PhD dissertation which geocritically approaches Caryl Phillips's works. His research interests are geocriticism, narrative cartography and mapping in literatures in English as well as in world literatures.
Emmanuelle Peraldo is an Assistant Professor at the University of Lyon III (EA 4186, IETT, France). She is specialized in eighteenth-century literature and history of ideas, and more particularly on Daniel Defoe, and her current research focuses on the link between geography and literature in the early modern period.
Elizabeth Robertson completed her PhD on themes of family, history and memory in the work of writer-director Stephen Poliakoff, in the Department of English at Queen Mary University of London, in 2013, where she is also a Teaching Associate; she is currently a Post-doctoral Research Assistant in the Department of English at King's College, London.
Albrecht Selge was born in 1975 in Heidelberg and grew up in Berlin. He studied German literature and Philosophy in Berlin and Vienna and has authored audio guides for Berlin, London, Paris, Rome, and Vienna. His novel Wach, published by Rowohlt Verlag Berlin in 2011, won the 2011 Klaus-Michael Kühne-Prize for best debut novel, and was a finalist for the prestigious 2011 Alfred-Döblin-Prize. Selge lives in Berlin, currently working on his second novel Die Sterne, which tells of an unstable man's kinks and pranks, of music and monks.
Mariya Shymchyshyn is a professor of the Department of Literary Theory and World Literature at Kyiv National Linguistic University (Ukraine). She is an alumna of the Junior Faculty Development Program (Ames, Iowa State University, 2003-2004) and of the Fulbright Scholar Program (Loyola University Chicago, 2013-2014).
Kate Siklosi lives in Toronto and is currently a Ph.D. Candidate in English at York University. Her research interests center upon the intersections of Canadian and American avant-garde poetry and poetics, post-structuralism, and spatial theory. She is currently the co-editor of Pivot: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies and Thought.
Robert T. Tally Jr.
is an associate professor of English at Texas State University. He is the author of Fredric Jameson: The Project of Dialectical Criticism; Poe and the Subversion of American Literature; Spatiality (The New Critical Idiom); Utopia in the Age of Globalization
; Kurt Vonnegut and the American Novel; and Melville, Mapping and Globalization. The translator of Bertrand Westphal'sGeocriticism, Tally is the editor of Geocritical Explorations: Space, Place, and Mapping in Literary and Cultural Studies; Kurt Vonnegut: Critical Insights; Literary Cartographies: Spatiality, Representation, and Narrative; and The Geocritical Legacies of Edward W. Said: Spatiality, Critical Humanism, and Comparative Literature (forthcoming). He also serves as the general
editor of the Palgrave Macmillan book series Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies.
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