Author Biographies

Cecilia Donohue is Professor and Chairperson, Language and Literature, at Madonna University in Livonia, Michigan. Author of Robert Penn Warren’s Novels: Feminine and Feminist Discourse, Cecilia has edited a soon-to-be-published volume of essays on Sandra Cisneros’s Woman Hollering Creek. Donohue’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 for 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.

Bert Emerson is a PhD candidate in nineteenth century American literature at the Claremont Graduate University. His research interests include the development of literary culture in the United States from the colonial era through the early twentieth century, especially its correspondence with the development of various social and political narratives of belonging, recognition, and citizenship in the developing nation. His dissertation entitled “Local Rules: Imagining Alternative Democracies in American Fiction, 1828-1876” explores the paradigm of locality in Old Southwestern Humor, Philadelphia Urban novels, and San Francisco periodical fictions and the ways these imagine and articulate alternative narratives of democracies.

Larry A. Gray is Assistant Professor of English at Jacksonville State University in Alabama. His numerous conference papers indicate his several scholarly interests, including the tales of Henry James, British literature and culture between the World Wars, Post –WWII American literature, and film adaptation in the broadest sense. Previous articles have appeared in the Henry James Review and in Notes on Contemporary Literature; also forthcoming in Adaptation (Oxford U P journal) is his article on Ayn Rand.

Andrew Hakim recently completed his dissertation, “Fictions of Representation: Narrative and the Politics of Self-Making in the Interwar American Novel” at the University of Southern California. He writes about Modernism, American history, cultural studies, and narrative theory. In addition to his essay on All the King’s Men in this collection, he has an article forthcoming in the F. Scott Fitzgerald 286 Author Biographies

Review. Currently, he teaches literature and writing in USC’s Thematic Option honors program.

Robert McParland is the author of Charles Dickens’s American Audience (2010), Writing on Joseph Conrad (2010), and the editor of Music and Literary Modernism (2006). He is an Associate Professor of English and English Department chair at Felician College in New Jersey.

Mark T. Mitchell (Ph.D. Georgetown University) is an Associate Professor of Government at Patrick Henry College where he teaches courses in political theory. His research interests include modern and contemporary political theory, Christian political theory, the political implications of science and technology, and political themes in literature. His first book, Michael Polanyi: The Art of Knowing, was published in 2006 by ISI Books. A second book, The Politics of Gratitude: Scale, Place, and Community in a Global Age, is forthcoming as is a co-edited volume titled The Humane Vision of Wendell Berry.

James A. Perkins, a Professor Emeritus of English and Public Relations at Westminster College, holds degrees from Centre College, Miami University and The University of Tennessee. Perkins, who has written books on Robert Penn Warren, Robert Drake, David Madden and other Southern writers, is also a poet and a short story writer. His most recent volume of stories is Snakes, Butterbeans & and Discovery of Electricity. His poetry has appeared in Black Fly Review, Cape Rock, The Southern Review, Colorado Review, and Antigonish Review. He was a Fulbright Senior Lecturer at Seoul National University in 1998 and was given Westminster College’s Distinguished Faculty Award in 2006. Jane, his wife, retired from the Westminster College library, stays busy planning their next trip. Their last one was to Dubrovnik following their term at Pembroke College in the Westminster/Oxford program. They have two sons, James and Jeffrey and two grandsons, Rory and Joshua.

Noel Polk is Professor Emeritus of English and Editor, Mississippi Quarterly, at Mississippi State University. A native Mississippian, he has published and lectured on William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, and other Southern authors in the USA, Europe, Japan, Australia, and the former Soviet Union. He has edited new texts of Faulkner's novels for Random House, The Library of America, and Vintage International;