Contributors

Contributors Pacific Coast Philology, Volume 49, Issue 1, 2014, pp. 143-145 (Article) Published by Penn State University Press For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/542644 [ This content has been declared free to read by the pubisher during the COVID-19 pandemic. ] Contributors ALAA ALGHAMDI is an assistant professor of English literature at Taibah University in Medina, Saudi Arabia. He was born in Medina Munawwarah and received his education in Saudi Arabia and the United Kingdom. He earned his master’s degree in English literature at Newcastle University and his PhD in English literature at the University of Leeds, United Kingdom. LAUREN APPLEGATE is a visiting assistant professor of Spanish at Marquette University. She specializes in twentieth- and twenty-first-century Hispanic women’s literature, particularly with regard to issues of gender, sexuality, and desire. She is currently working on the representation of the “Moor” in the framework of a discussion on national identity and gender in contemporary Spanish narrative. KATRA A. BYRAM is an assistant professor in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at Ohio State University. She has published articles on Theodor Storm, Wilhelm Raabe, Gerhart Hauptmann, Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, and Ingeborg Bachmann, and on integrating culture and language instruction in the second-language classroom. She is currently working on a book about modern identity and the ethics of narrative form. LORELY FRENCH is Distinguished Professor of German and chair of the Department of World Languages and Literatures at Pacific University in Oregon. She has published a book entitled German Women as Letter Writers 1750–1850 with Fairleigh Dickinson University Press/Associated University Press. Other publications include articles on German, Austrian, and Swiss PCP 49.1_09_Contributors.indd 143 01/04/14 10:09 AM women writers from the nineteenth century to the present; a film on Berlin as an “intercultural text,” which she coproduced with Louise Stoehr and Gudrun Sherman; and a volume of essays on Austrian and German literature and culture, which she co-edited with Roswitha Burwick and Ivett Guntersdorfer. MARITA HÜBNER is a historian of early modern and modern Europe (1500–1900) with interests in science, religion, historiography, exploration, and aesthetics. She studied Protestant theology, philosophy, and the his- tory of science, has taught at Oxford, Oslo, UC Berkeley, and the California Institute of Technology, is affiliated with the Newton Project directed by Rob Iliffe (Sussex), and held a Dibner Fellowship at the Huntington Library. She is author of Jean André Deluc (1727–1817): Protestantische Kultur und Moderne Naturforschung (2010). Following the cultural and intellectual roots of the debate, which date back to the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, she is currently working on a book project about the controversy that started in 1789 when the original Samuel Witte announced that the Pyramids of Egypt were in fact remnants of extinct volcanoes. JONATHAN P. LEWIS is an assistant professor of English at Troy University’s Covington/East Atlanta Site, where he teaches graduate and undergraduate literature and composition courses. In 2006, he edited a collection of essays on Neal Stephenson entitled Tomorrow Through the Past: Neal Stephenson and the Project of Global Modernization for Cambridge Scholars Press, and he has published other essays on Stephenson, J. D. Salinger, and the Harry Potter series. JEEHYUN LIM is an assistant professor of English at Denison University. Her research and teaching interests include U.S. ethnic literature, Asian-American studies, comparative racialization, and transnationalism. Her manuscript-in- progress, “Fictions of Bilingualism and the Cultural Politics of Neoliberalism,” examines the trope of bilingualism in Asian American and Latino literature in relation to the formation of language as human capital in neoliberal multiculturalism. Her essays have appeared or are forthcoming in Modern Fiction Studies, Journal of Transnational American Studies, Women’s Studies Quarterly, and Biography. RACHEL PIETKA is a Ph.D. candidate in the English Department at Baylor University, where she teaches freshman composition and American literature. She also coordinates the Graduate Writing Center and develops spiritual life programs for graduate students. Her research interests include nineteenth- century American literature, women writers, and religion and literature. 144 | PACIFIC COAST PHILOLOGY PCP 49.1_09_Contributors.indd 144 01/04/14 10:09 AM Her article on Louisa May Alcott is forthcoming in Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal. CHRISTINA STEVENSON graduated from the Literature Department at UC Santa Cruz in 2011. Her dissertation, “The Politics of the Room: Sexuality and Subjectivity in the Modernist Text,” investigates the figure of the room in the texts of Freud, Proust, and Woolf. She is currently teaching literature and composition at Solano Community College in Fairfield, CA. SHELLEY STREEBY is a professor in the Ethnic Studies and Literature Depart- ments and director of the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Workshop at the University of California, San Diego. She is the author of Radical Sensations: World Movements, Violence, and Visual Culture (2013); American Sensations: Class, Empire, and the Production of Popular Culture (2002); and co-editor (with Jesse Alemán) of Empire and the Literature of Sensation: An Anthology of Nineteenth-Century Popular Fiction (2007). Contributors | 145 PCP 49.1_09_Contributors.indd 145 01/04/14 10:09 AM.

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