Dictionary of Literary Influences

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African American Stereotypes in Jazz Age Literature,” examines racial stereotypes in the works of Langston Hughes, Zora Neal Hurston, Fanny Hurst, and Gertrude Stein. He holds a B.A. from Colgate University and an M. Phil from Trinity College Dublin.

Holly Messitt teaches composition and literature at Berkeley College in New York City. She is currently working on a study combining dance and literary theory.

Wendy Pearce Miller is a Ph.D. candidate and graduate instructor at the University of Mississippi. Her primary fields of interest are twentieth-century American literature and Southern literature. She is currently writing a dissertation focusing on the works of Mary Lee Settle.

Jim Millhorn is the History Librarian and Head of Acquisitions for the Northern Illinois University libraries. He is the author of the Student’s Companion to the World Wide Web (Scarecrow, 2000).

Dana Milstein is a doctoral candidate in French at the Graduate Center in New York. Also a professor of literature at Baruch College, she has published and presented papers concerning nineteenthand early twentieth-century art and literature as well as contemporary underground culture and media studies.

Carl Mirra teaches American studies and social studies at the State University of New York–Old Westbury. He is completing a dissertation titled “U.S. Foreign Policy and the Prospects for Peace Education” at Teachers College, Columbia University.

Josip Mocnik earned an M.A. degree from University College, London, and is now a Ph.D. candidate at Bowling Green State University. His dissertation is on United States–Yugoslav relations and the collapse of Yugoslavia.

Georg Modestin was born in 1969 in Berne, Switzerland, and graduated from Lausanne and Exeter. He specialized in medieval history and is particularly interested in the political symbolism of repression in the later Middle Ages. He has published a monograph and several articles and teaches general history courses in Biel, Switzerland.

Andrew Muldoon received his Ph.D. in 1999 from Washington University and works on British imperialism in India. He has taught at Tufts University and Saint Anselm College and is currently a lecturer in the Program in History and Literature at Harvard University.

Linda Ness is a graduate student in the Department of French at the University of Toronto. Her principal area of interest is the literature of early twentieth-century France. She is currently preparing a doctoral thesis on the Journal of André Gide.

Devon Niebling recently completed her Ph.D. in English from the University of Nebraska with a dissertation on baseball ecology. She currently teaches English as

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a second language at the University of Nebraska and is beginning work on her next baseball project.

Deborah K. O’Brien is an assistant professor, acquisitions librarian at East Tennessee State University, Sherrod Library, in Johnson City, Tennessee. She received a master of arts degree in 1994 from the University of South Florida.

Richard Penaskovic is a professor of religious studies at Auburn University in Alabama. He has written three books and 75 articles. His research interests include spirituality, Augustine and Newman Studies, and critical thinking and the academic study of religion.

Christopher Pepus is a teaching fellow and Ph.D. candidate in history at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri.

Donald K. Pickens is semi-retired from the University of North Texas, where he has taught since 1965. He graduated from the University of Oklahoma (B.A., 1956; M.A., 1957) and received his Ph.D. in 1964 from the University of Texas. Widely published, he established the women in U.S. history course in addition to teaching social and intellectual history and a large number of special topic courses at UNT.

Nicoletta Pireddu is associate professor of Italian and comparative literature at Georgetown University. Her research and publications focus on European literary and cultural relations from the nineteenth century to the present. She is the author of the volume Antropologi alla corte della bellezzal (Fiorini, 2001) and of numerous articles on decadence, modernism, and postmodernism.

Mark B. Pohlad is an associate professor and teaches courses on modern art and photohistory at DePaul University in Chicago. A frequent contributor to the journal History of Photography, he writes on Marcel Duchamp’s historicizing and selfcanonizing behaviors, the subject of his dissertation (University of Delaware, 1994).

John Grady Powell is a graduate of Furman University with a bachelor of arts degree in economics. Recent publications include “The Immediate Returns to Career Mobility” with Todd Carroll (2002), and “The Value of Chinese Immigrants during the Building of the First American Transcontinental Railroad, 1852–1869” (2002).

Tessa Powell is majoring in English literature and political science at the University of Kentucky, where she is enrolled in the Honors Program. She has served as a page for the U.S. House of Representatives (1999–2000), an intern in the office of Senator Mitch McConnell (2000), and an intern at the Truman Presidential Library (2003).

Linda Ray Pratt is professor and chair of the Department of English at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Specializing in Victorian and modern poetry, her

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most recent book is Matthew Arnold Revisited. A former national president of the American Association of University Professors, Pratt also publishes widely on higher education.

John Radzilowski received his Ph.D. in history in 1999 from Arizona State University and is currently an associate at the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute at the University of Minnesota. He has written extensively on central and eastern Europe and on ethnic communities in the United States.

Todd W. Reeser is an assistant professor of French at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. His research focuses on gender and sexuality in the Renaissance and on French cultural studies.

Stephen J. Rippon is assistant professor of English at the U.S. Air Force Academy and a captain in the U.S. Air Force. He is an assistant editor for War, Literature, and the Arts: An International Journal of the Humanities, for which he has written several pieces.

Priscilla Roberts received her undergraduate and doctoral degrees from King’s College, Cambridge. She is a lecturer in history and director of the Centre of American Studies at the University of Hong Kong. She is the author of The Cold War (Sutton, 2000) and editor of Sino-American Relations Since 1900 (1991) and Window on the Forbidden City: The Beijing Diaries of David Bruce, 1973–1974 (2001).

Todd R. Robinson is in the Ph.D. program at the University of Nebraska–Lin- coln, where he specializes in nineteenth-century American literature and American poetry and poetics. His essay on neurasthenia in Willa Cather’s The Professor’s House appeared in the June 2001 issue of M/C: A Journal of Media and Culture.

Roy Rosenstein is professor of comparative literature and English at the American University of Paris, where he has been teaching since 1977. He has also taught at the University of Rochester, the University of Oregon, the Sorbonne, elsewhere in Europe, and in South America.

Michael A. Rutz is an assistant professor of history at the University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh. He received his Ph.D. from Washington University in 2002, completing a dissertation on “The British Zion: Evangelization and the Politics of Dissent in Britain and the Empire.” His research explores aspects of religion and politics, the history of Christian missions, and cross-cultural exchange in the British Empire.

Martine Sauret is associate professor of French at Western Michigan University on a professional leave of absence. He is currently finishing a book on early explorers and cartographers entitled Voies Cartographiques. He received his Ph.D. with honors at the University of Minnesota in 1991 under the direction of Professor Tom Conley, Harvard University. His most recent article, “Victor Hugo: Itinéraires” appears in L’Etoile du Nord in January 2003.

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Thomas Saylor studied at the University of Akron, the Free University of Berlin, and the University of Rochester, where he received a Ph.D. in history in 1993. He is currently associate professor of history at Concordia University, St. Paul, and offers courses on modern Germany, the Holocaust, and the world wars.

Carl L. Schmider earned the Ph.D. in speech communication from the University of Denver with the dissertation, “The Precision Which Creates Movement: The Stylistics of E. E. Cummings” (copyright 1972, unpublished). Currently teaching for the University of Maryland University College–Maryland in Europe, he has performed Cummings’s poetry as a reader in residence at several U.S. universities and in Iceland, Japan, and China.

Mary Ellen Heian Schmider earned a Ph.D. at the University of Minnesota, completing her dissertation on “Jane Addams Aesthetic of Social Reform” (copyright 1983, unpublished). She has lectured on Addams for the U.S. Information Service in Austria, Italy, Iceland, and Japan and as a U.S. Fulbright Lecturer at Lanzhou University, China, in 1997. After 18 years at Minnesota State University Moorhead, the last 10 as dean of graduate studies and research, she joined the University of Maryland University College–Maryland in Europe.

Gregory L. Schnurr (B.A., B. ED, H.B.A., M.A., Dip. Arts) was born in Chepstow, Ontario, Canada, and attended Sheridan College, the University of Toronto, Queen’s University, and the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. He is currently an artist and educator with the Bruce-Grey Catholic District School Board.

Angela Schwarz is assistant professor in modern history at the University of Duisburg, Germany. She has most recently published Vom Industriebetrieb zum Landschaftspark (Essen: Klartext, 2001). In 1991 she received the Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History and in 1998 wrote a postdoctoral thesis on popular science in Britain and Germany, which was published in 1999 as Der Schluessel zur modernen Welt, ca. 1870–1914.

Alexander Sedlmaier is a postdoctoral research fellow at the history department of Technichal University, Berlin. He wrote a doctoral dissertation on

Images and Policy: The Wilson Administration and Germany (1931–1921). He is currently at work on a comparative cultural history of department stores in divided Germany.

Keith D. Semmel is a professor of communication arts and chair of the Communication and Theatre Arts Department at Cumberland College. He teaches classes in mass media, film history, and popular culture studies, including a class on the Beatles. His master’s thesis and doctoral dissertation also examined the Beatles.

Ann Shillinglaw is completing her doctoral dissertation in English at Loyola University in Chicago. She is Director of Development at the Stuart Graduate School of Business at the Illinois Institute of Technology. Her areas of interest include literature, folklore, and fairy tales.

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Jerry Shuttle is reference/instruction librarian at East Tennessee State University. Before becoming a librarian he taught at Montana State University, Billings. His interests include environmentalism, Zen Buddhism, Chinese and Japanese poetry, Beat literature, and the works of California poet Gary Snyder. He lives north of the Middle Fork of the Holston River in East Tennessee.

Jill Silos is a doctoral candidate in history at the University of New Hampshire, where she has taught courses in United States history and American culture for several years. Her specialization is modern American cultural and intellectual history.

Phyllis Soybel is currently an associate professor of history at the College of Lake County in Illinois. Her teaching areas include World War II and Western civilization. She is currently finishing her book, The Necessary Relationship: The Development of Anglo-American Co-operation in Naval Intelligence during the Second World War, to be published by Praeger.

Melissa Stallings is publications coordinator for the California Veterinary Medical Association. She has worked as an editor and managing editor in the interactive media division of ABC-CLIO. She has a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Abilene Christian University.

Rouven J. Steeves was educated at the United States Air Force Academy and the Naval Postgraduate School. He teaches in the departments of political science and foreign languages at the United State Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Eva-Maria Stolberg is a lecturer at the Institute of East European and Russian History, University of Bonn, and serves on the advisory board of the Eurasian Studies Society (Harvard University). She has recently published Stalin and the Chinese Communists (Stuttgart, 1997) and “Interracial Outposts in Siberia: Nerchinsk, Kiakhta, and the Russo-Chinese Trade in the Seventeenth/Eighteenth Centuries” in Journal of Early Modern History (2000).

Christopher C. Strangeman is currently working full-time on his Ph.D. at Southern Illinois University–Carbondale in historical studies. Recently, he served as a full-time social science instructor at a community college. His historical interests lie in modern Western intellectual thought.

Richard N. Swanson heads the journalism program at Lassen Community College in Susanville, California, where he also instructs film and English. He received master’s degrees in journalism and English from Michigan State University. He has worked as a reporter and copyeditor for newspapers in Michigan, and in book publishing in New York City.

Guillaume de Syon teaches European history and the history of technology at Albright College in Reading, Pennsylvania. His research focuses on the impact of

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aviation on Western culture and society. He recently published Zeppelin! Germany and the Airship, 1900–1939 ( Johns Hopkins, 2002).

Maria Tabaglio received her M.A. in German philology from the University of Verona with a thesis on Hildegard of Bingen. She has published several articles on medieval Latin literature and is now translating works from Old French and Old German into Italian. She teaches German literature at a high school in Brescia.

Gregory F. Tague is an assistant professor of English at St. Francis College in Brooklyn Heights, New York. He is a speaker in the New York Council for the Humanities Program, and has published widely on the work of D. H. Lawrence.

Donald F. Theall, former president of Trent University and previously Molson Professor and Director of the Graduate Communications Program at McGill University, is author of Beyond the Word, James Joyce’s Techno-Poetics, two books on McLuhan, and numerous articles in literature, aesthetic theory, communications, media, modernism, science fiction, and the prehistory of cyberspace.

Gregor Thuswaldner has studied German and English at the University of Salzburg, Bowling Green State University, and the University of Vienna and is currently completing his dissertation at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has published numerous articles, reviews, and essays in scholarly journals and newspapers.

Rebecca Tolley-Stokes is a librarian and assistant professor at the University Libraries of East Tennessee State University. Her contributions to several reference works include the Encyclopedia of Appalachia, the Dictionary of Literary Biography: American Radical and Reform Writers, the Encyclopedia of Labor History Worldwide, and the Dictionary of American History.

Charles Trainor received his B.A. from Dartmouth, his M.A. from Cambridge, and his Ph.D. from Yale. He has taught at Yale and at Illinois College and is currently a professor of English at Siena College. His publications include The Drama and Fielding’s Novels and articles on several playwrights and novelists.

Annette Trefzer is assistant professor of English at the University of Mississippi, where she teaches Southern literature and literary theory, and she is coeditor of

Journal X: A Journal in Culture and Criticism.

Maja Trochimczyk is a native of Poland, a citizen of Poland and Canada, and a resident of California. She is the Stefan and Wanda Wilk Director of the Polish Music Center, Thornton School of Music at the University of Southern California. She holds a Ph.D. from McGill University, Montreal, and specializes in twentiethcentury Polish music. She is the author of two books—After Chopin: Essays in Polish Music (USC, 2000) and The Music of Louis Andriessen (Routledge, 2002)—and over 40 articles and book chapters.

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Wim van Mierlo is Administrator of the Records Management and Alumni Scheme and of the Bibliographical Society of the Institute for English Studies, School of Advanced Study at the University of London. He has a masters degree from the University of Antwerp and a doctorate from the University of Miami. In addition to publishing articles in European Joyce Studies and Joyce Studies Annual, he is co-editor of The Reception of James Joyce in Europe (Continuum, 2004).

Andrés Villagrá is associate professor of Spanish at Pace University, New York. He is the author of the upcoming book Funciones y operaciones de la autobiografia hispánica moderna. He is a contributor to Romance Quarterly, Cuadernos de ALDEEU, Ojancano, Confluencia, Draco: Revista de Literatura, and Bulletin of Academy of Asturian Letters.

Durthy A. Washington, M.A., M.S., has published more than 100 articles, essays, and book reviews as well as several literary study guides. A former technical writer, textbook editor, and manuscript consultant, she currently serves as Writing Center director at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and teaches in the Department of English and Fine Arts.

Linda S. Watts received her Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale University in 1989. She authored Rapture Untold: Gender, Mysticism, and the “Moment of Recognition” in Writings by Gertrude Stein (1996) and Gertrude Stein: A Study of the Short Fiction (1999), and has published in a variety of scholarly journals. She is currently at work on an encyclopedia of American folklore. Watts is Professor of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at the University of Washington, Bothell.

Steven F. White is associate professor of history at Mount Saint Mary’s College. A two-time Fulbright Fellow, he now chairs the Italy/Spain/Portugal advanced area studies course at the Foreign Service Institute, U.S. State Department. He is the author of Progressive Renaissance: America and the Reconstruction of Italian Education, 1943–1962 (New York, 1991).

Marianne Wilson has been teaching music in the Woodbridge Township School District for the past twenty years. She is a doctoral student at Drew University in Madison, New Jersey, preparing a dissertation on twentieth-century American music.

David E. Woodard received a Ph.D. in history from the University of Minnesota in 1996. He currently teaches history and American government at Concordia University in St. Paul, Minnesota. Professor Woodard’s primary areas of study are diplomatic history and the U.S. Civil War.

Gelareh Yvard-Djahansouz is an associate professor (maître de conférence) in American studies at the University of Angers, France, and has been teaching courses on American history and political institutions. She obtained her Ph.D. in environmental policy and politics in the United States from the University of

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Nantes in 1993 and has continued her research and published several articles in the field of environmental policy and ecology in the United States.

Katarzyna Zechenter teaches at University College London and has a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. She has written a monograph on a contemporary Polish writer, Tadeusz Konwicki. She is currently working on a book on the representation of Krakow, the previous capital of Poland, in literature and in Polish national mythology.

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