Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird (44 page)

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Editor

Michael J. Meyer
is Professor Emeritus of English at DePaul University in Chicago. Meyer is the present bibliographer for Steinbeck studies, having published
The Hayashi Steinbeck Bibliography (1982–1996)
in 1998 (Scarecrow) and a follow-up volume (1996–2006) in 2008. In addition to his bibliographic work, Meyer's essays have appeared in the
Steinbeck Quarterly,
the
Steinbeck Review,
and the
Steinbeck Newsletter
, and he has contributed chapters to numerous monographs and books, including serving as editor for
Cain Sign: The Betrayal of Brotherhood in the Works of John Steinbeck
(Mellen, 2000). He is presently the bibliographer for the
Steinbeck Review
and serves on its editorial board. Other publications include
A John Steinbeck Encyclopedia
(Greenwood, 2006), on which he served as co-editor with Brian Railsback.

Since 1994, Meyer has been an editor for Rodopi Press's series Perspectives in Modern Literature where his seven volumes include
Literature and the Grotesque
(1995),
Literature and Music
(2002), and
Literature and the Law
(2003). As senior editor of Rodopi's new series entitled
Dialogues,
he has supervised volumes
where classic canonical texts are examined on the basis of controversial issues and are discussed in parallel studies prepared by recent PhDs as well as by more experienced scholars. His most recent books are
The Essential Criticism of “Of Mice and Men”
(Scarecrow, 2009), which reviews the novel's critical reception over seven decades, and “
The Grapes of Wrath”: A Re-Consideration
(Rodopi, 2009).

Contributors

Derek Blair
worked for over eighteen years in television news and video production. The twice Emmy-nominated producer earned his undergraduate degree in communications studies from the University of Windsor. He has recently graduated from Madonna University's College of Education, Livonia, Michigan, with certification in communication arts and English.

Lisa Detweiler Miller
was born in the Philadelphia area. She received her BA from Juniata College and MA from Carnegie Mellon University. She is currently pursuing her PhD at West Virginia University in Morgantown, West Virginia, where she lives with her husband. Her research interests include nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American literature with a strong focus on Southern literature. She is most drawn to critical race theory, performance theory, and pedagogy.

Cecilia Donohue
is a professor and chairperson in the Department of Language and Literature at Madonna University in Livonia, Michigan. Author of
Robert Penn Warren's Novels: Feminine and Feminist Discourse
, Cecilia has recently edited a forthcoming volume of essays on Sandra Cisneros's
Woman Hollering Creek
.
Cecilia's scholarly interests include twentieth-century Southern women authors, John Steinbeck, film translations of novels, sports fiction, and popular culture. She has authored entries on American literature and culture for
The Literary Encyclopedia
and Salem Press. Her current research is focused on Steinbeck's
East of Eden
and
Journal of a Novel
,
as well as on the fiction of Anne Tyler
.

Ann Engar
is an assistant professor and Presidential Teaching Scholar at the University of Utah, where she directs and teaches in the Pre-Law LEAP Program and teaches for the Honors College. She received her PhD in English from University of Washington. A senior bibliographer for the Modern Language Association, Ann is the author of over sixty articles, many on women writers and their works.

Robert C. Evans
has taught at Auburn University Montgomery (AUM) since 1982, earning his PhD at Princeton University in 1984. He has received various academic honors, including fellowships at the Folger, Huntington, and Newberry Libraries and from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Mellon Foundation. He is the author or editor of more than twenty-five books and nearly two hundred essays. At AUM he has been distinguished research professor, distinguished teaching professor, and university alumni professor. In 1989 he was chosen as Professor of the Year for the state by the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education.

Alec Gilmore
is a Baptist minister in the United Kingdom, a lecturer in biblical studies, and a Senior Research Fellow at the International Baptist Theological Seminary in Prague, where he specializes in the Old Testament, preaching, and hermeneutics. His most recent book is
A Concise Dictionary of Bible Origins and Interpretation
(T & T Clark, Continuum, 2007). Interest in Steinbeck arose from frequent visits to San Francisco with research opportunities at San José State and Stanford universities. He contributed a paper (“Did Steinbeck Have a Suffering Servant?”) at the Steinbeck Centennial Conference in 2002 and wrote a chapter (“Steinbeck's Multi-layered Use of the Biblical Image”) in
“The Grapes of Wrath”: A Reconsideration
, ed. Michael J. Meyer (Rodopi, 2009).

Malcolm Gladwell
has been a staff writer with the
New Yorker
magazine since 1996. His 1999 profile of Ron Popeil won a National Magazine Award, and in 2005 he was named one of
Time
magazine's 100 Most Influential People. He is the author of four books:
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Make a Big Difference
(Back Bay Books, 2000);
Blink: The Power of Thinking without Thinking
(Back Bay, 2005);
Outliers: The Story of Success
(Little Brown, 2008)—all of which were number one
New York Times
bestsellers—and the bestselling anthology
What The Dog Saw
(Little Brown, 2009). From 1987 to 1996, he was a reporter with the
Washington Post
, where he covered business and science, and then served as the newspaper's New York City bureau chief. He graduated from the University of Toronto, Trinity College, with a degree in history. He was born in England, grew up in rural Ontario, and now lives in New York City.

Christian Z. Goering
is an assistant professor of secondary English and literacy education at the University of Arkansas, where he coordinates the English education program and directs the Northwest Arkansas Writing Project. He received a PhD in curriculum and instruction from Kansas State University in 2007 and currently serves on the executive board of the Arkansas Council of Teachers of English Language Arts. He provides educational outreach through his website dedicated to literacy and the teaching of literature through music at www.littunes.com.

James B. Kelley
is an associate professor of English at Mississippi State University–Meridian, where he teaches literature, theory, and writing. He has published reference book entries and articles on various subjects in modern literature and culture as well as a book on the African American writer Langston Hughes.

Hugh McElaney
is an instructor in the Department of English at Fitchburg State University in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, where he teaches “Literature and Disability.” His essay on Louisa May Alcott's disabling treatment of the male body, “Alcott's Freaking of Boyhood,” appeared in
Children's Literature
34 (2006). He lives with his wife in Princeton, Massachusetts.

Carl F. Miller
teaches twentieth-century British and American literature at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, where he lives adjacent to Harper Lee Drive. He received his doctorate from the University of Florida and has recently published other articles on the impact of the Cold War on the graphic novel and the utopian dimensions of Michael Jackson's
Captain EO
. He is currently completing a book manuscript on popular expressions of modernism.

Katie Rose Guest Pryal
is a lecturer in the Department of English and Comparative Literature and an adjunct assistant professor of law at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She earned her law degree from the University of North Carolina School of Law and her doctorate in English from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, specializing in rhetoric and composition. Her book manuscript,
Pragmatism and the Rhetoric of Affirmative Action
examines the intransigence of the affirmative action debate and suggests ways to find common ground. Her current book,
A Short Guide to Writing about Law
(Pearson 2010), teaches scholars how to incorporate legal sources into their research and writing.

Jochem Riesthuis
is a scholar of German and English literature with a PhD in comparative literature from the University of Chicago. With a primary interest in the twentieth century, he has published on authors like Ralph Ellison, Anthony Burgess, John Dos Passos, Richard Wright, and Stefan Heym, as well as on Klaus Mann's
Mephisto
and Ann Petry's
The Street
. His work centers on the intersection of politics, identity and language. Currently he is a lecturer of English with Media and Entertainment Management at Stenden University, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands.

Angela Shaw-Thornburg
is an assistant professor of English at South Carolina State University, where she teaches and writes on American and African American literature. She also serves as the co-editor of
Plenum: The South Carolina State University Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies
.

Cindy M. Williams
is a graduate assistant at the University of Arkansas where she is pursuing a PhD in curriculum and instruction, English education. She has taught secondary English for fourteen years and postsecondary education and composition courses for seven years. She serves as co-director of inservice for the Northwest Arkansas Writing Project and became a teacher consultant in 2008.

Jeffrey B. Wood
is a member of the Illinois Bar and a corporate attorney with a financial services institution in the Chicago area. He graduated with honors from the College of William and Mary and received his JD from Northwestern University School of Law. His research and speaking engagements cover a wide variety of topics, including law, literature, ethics, and public policy.

Cover Artist

David Kellam Brown
is a freelance artist/illustrator living in Plano, Texas. His former career was as a system software designer in the telecom industry, but for the past six years, Brown has concentrated on producing fine art and illustration, teaching drawing and painting at a four-year arts college, and working on his MFA in illustration at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. Brown has won several awards at local, national, and Internet art shows and is a Juried Member of EBSQ
and a Signature Member of the Texas Visual Arts Association.