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Marc Mancinelli is a teacher of English at Sterling High Schoolin Somerdale, NJ. He received his bachelor’s in English andpsychology from St. Joseph’s University in 2000, and a master’sin English from West Chester University in 2005. Concentrationsand research areas include 19th-century American literature,20th-century American literature, and creative writing. Otherpresentations include conferences at Texas Tech and Harvard.He is currently a doctoral student in education at the Universityof Pennsylvania. Teaching experience includes work as anadjunct instructor of English at St. Joseph’s University. Mancinellicurrently resides in Turnersville, New Jersey with his wife,Annmarie.J. D. McClatchy, librettist, is the author of six books of poems.His new collection, Mercury Dressing, will be published nextyear by Knopf. He has also written three collections of essays,including American Writers at Home (2004). He teaches at Yale,is editor of The Yale Review, and is a member of the AmericanAcademy of Arts and Letters. His first opera libretto was forWilliam Schuman’s A Question of Taste, which premiered in1989. His singing translation of Mozart’s The Magic Flutepremiered at the Metropolitan Opera in 2006, and will be revivedduring this coming Christmas season there.Jim McCue is helping Christopher Ricks to edit the poems of T.S. Eliot, having previously worked for The Times (of London). Heoccasionally publishes under the imprint of the Foundling Press.Lucy McDiarmid has just been appointed Marie Frazee-Baldassarre Professor of English at Montclair State Universityand is the author, most recently, of The Irish Art of Controversy(Cornell University Press).Brian J. McDonald holds a PhD in English Literature fromthe University of Edinburgh. His research interests includepost-WWII American and British fiction and the relationshipbetween imaginative literature and liberal political thought. Hisessays have appeared in periodicals such as Journal ofModern Literature and Gothic Studies, and he has recentlycompleted a stint with the Manuscripts Division of the PrincetonUniversity Library, organizing, archiving, and making available toresearchers, the extensive archives of The Hudson Review. Hecurrently lives in Washington, DC.Articles by Molly McQuade have appeared recently in the journalof the M/MLA and in Woolf Studies Annual, among others. Herbooks include Stealing Glimpses, Barbarism, and By Herself.Edward Mendelson is Lionel Trilling Professor in the Humanitiesat Columbia University and the literary executor of the Estate ofW. H. Auden. His books include Early Auden, Later Auden, andThe Things that Matter: What Seven Classic Novels Have to Sayabout the Stages of Life. He has prepared editions of poems andprose by W. H. Auden and novels by Anthony Trollope, GeorgeMeredith, Thomas Hardy, H. G. Wells, and Arnold Bennett.He is aContributing Editor of PC Magazine.Emily Taylor Merriman is an assistant professor of EnglishLiterature at San Francisco State University, where she teachesmodern British, American, and Caribbean Poetry. She holds anMA in Creative Writing and a PhD in Religion and Literature fromBoston University. Her publications include work on AdrienneRich, Geoffrey Hill, Gerard Manley Hopkins, and William Blake.She is currently working on a book entitled Poetry’s God, on thetheology in verse of Geoffrey Hill, Derek Walcott, and CharlesWright.Christi A. Merrill teaches South Asian literature and postcolonialtheory at the University of Michigan. In 2002 she was awardedan NEA fellowship to translate the oral-based stories of VijaydanDetha, now forthcoming from Katha Press and FordhamUniversity Press as A Straw Epic. In 2004 she was on fellowshipat Cornell University’s Society for the Humanities to write amonograph on translation (Riddles of Belonging) which isforthcoming from Fordham University Press. Currently she iswriting on genres of literary nonfiction (essay, aatmakatha,testimonio, baat) as they are translated into English.David Mikics is Professor of English at the University of Houston.He is the author, most recently, of A New Handbook of LiteraryTerms (Yale University Press), as well as books on Emerson andNietzsche, and on Spenser and Milton. His current project is TheArt of the Sonnet, a close reading of one hundred sonnets fromthe Renaissance to the present, co-written with Stephen Burt(Harvard University Press).Paige Morgan is completing a PhD in literature and textualstudies at the University of Washington, and is currently workingon a dissertation focusing on romanticism, economics, andaesthetics. She is the Assistant Editor of Modern LanguageQuarterly, and of the UK Blake Society’s Blake Journal.Richard Nanian received an MA in English with both Literatureand Creative Writing concentrations from Salem State College,and a PhD in English with a Literary Studies concentrationfrom the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He teaches bothliterature and writing courses at George Mason University.His interests include English and American Romanticism,poetics, and the effects of language on cognition. His mostrecent article—“Positive Ambiguity, or Why Keats’ ‘Lamia’ DidNot Become a Fragment”—was published in the 2008 issueof Prism(s): The Journal of the International Conference onRomanticism. He has been a member of ALSC since 1999.Versatile woman of letters (novelist, poet, playwright, reviewer,essayist) Joyce Carol Oates is Roger S. Berlind ‘52 Professor ofthe Humanities, and Professor of Creative Writing at PrincetonUniversity. From a working-class childhood in upstate New York,where she attended a one-room schoolhouse, she went onto write novels in high school, win a scholarship to SyracuseUniversity, and emerge from there on the launch of a majorcareer. From 1968 to 1978 she taught at the University ofWindsor in Canada; at Princeton, where she has been since,she is a vital presence in the campus community, and adoredteacher to generations of students, several of whom have goneon to sparkling careers as writers themselves.Born in Mexico City, Antonio Ochoa received his undergraduatedegree in Latin American Literature from the UniversidadIberoamericana. He then obtained a grant to study a Master ofLetters degree at the University of Edinburgh. While finishing hisMLitt he got involved in the Avant-Garde Research Group headedby the late Professor Dietrich Scheunemann, under whosesupervision he began a PhD in Avant-Garde poetry, completedearlier this year. His latest project was the translation of RobertDuncan’s book of poems Bending the Bow.Gillian Osborne received her BA in Comparative Literature fromColumbia University in 2006. These days, she is a graduatestudent in English at UC Berkeley, studying the poetry andpoetics of 19th and 20th century America. At Berkeley, she isalso pursuing a Creative Masters as part of her PhD, and her10 2008 ALSC Conference Program
poetry has appeared in the Threepenny Review.Lee Oser served on the Council of the ALSC from 2004 to2007. His books include The Ethics of Modernism, The Returnof Christian Humanism, and Out of What Chaos: A Novel. He iscurrently working on a book called Shakespeare’s Vision of Evil.He teaches English at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester,Massachusetts.Holt Parker is Professor of Classics at the University ofCincinnati. He has been awarded the Rome Prize, theWomen’s Classical Caucus Prize for Scholarship, a LoebLibrary Foundation Grant, and a Fellowship from the NationalEndowment for the Humanities. He has published on Sappho,Sulpicia, sexuality, slavery, sadism, and spectacles. His bookOlympia Morata: The Complete Writings of an Italian Heretic(Chicago 2003) was given the Josephine Roberts Award by theSociety for the Study of Early Modern Women. His translation(the first complete in English) of Censorinus’s curious work, TheBirthday Book, makes an attractive present.Joshua Pederson received his PhD in Religion and Literaturefrom Boston University in the spring of 2008 and currentlyteaches courses at Marymount Manhattan College and HofstraUniversity. His broader academic interests include 20th-centuryand contemporary American and British literature and theater,the Bible, and film studies.Ethel Rackin is a graduate student in English at PrincetonUniversity, where she studies nineteenth and twentieth-centurypoetry and poetics, British and American modernism, andmaterial culture. She is currently working on a dissertation onpoetic ornamentation, focusing on questions of baroque andminimalist tendencies from the fin-de-siècle to WWII. She hasalso taught creative writing at Penn State University’s DelawareCounty Campus, and at Haverford College. Her own poems haveappeared in The American Poetry Review, Poetry East, ColoradoReview, and elsewhere.Diane Rayor is Professor and co-founder of the Departmentof Classics at Grand Valley State University in Michigan, whereshe teaches ancient Greek, translation theory, mythology,and classical literature. She has published four books oftranslations, including The Homeric Hymns (California, 2004)and Sappho’s Lyre: Archaic Lyric and Women Poets of AncientGreece (California, 1991). In summer 2008, she participatedin the Paros Symposium of Conversation and Translation whileworking on her current project, translating Sophocles’ Antigonefor performance.Patrick Redding lives in New York City. He is a PhD candidate inthe Department of English at Yale University, currently finishinga dissertation entitled “Modernism and the Fate of DemocraticPoetics.” This project argues that, contrary to a longstandingtheory of American literature that begins with Walt Whitman,there is no useful correlation between democratic commitmentand poetic form. This formal expectation has led critics tooverlook the democratic imagination at work in the modernistpoetry of Hart Crane, Wallace Stevens, Marianne Moore, andWilliam Carlos Williams.Richard Regosin is Professor Emeritus of French at UC Irvine.He is the author of books on Montaigne and D’Aubigne and ofnumerous articles on Rabelais, Marguerite de Navarre, Ronsard,Du Bellay, De Fail, La Boetie, and others.Christopher Ricks is Warren Professor of the Humanities, andCo-Director of the Editorial Institute, at Boston University, andhe has one more year as Professor of Poetry at Oxford. Hiswritings on Beckett run from 1955, through Beckett’s DyingWords (1993), to a commentary on the little-known masterpiece“Ceiling” in the annual Fulcrum (2008) which devotes nearly twohundred pages to Beckett’s greatness.Lisa Rodensky is an Associate Professor of English at WellesleyCollege. She is the author of The Crime in Mind: CriminalResponsibility and the Victorian Novel (Oxford 2003), and iscurrently editing The Oxford Handbook of the Victorian Novel.Adelaide Russo received her PhD from Columbia University. Sheteaches in the Department of French Studies and the Program inComparative Literature at Louisiana State University. Her latestbook, Le Peintre comme modèle: Du Surréalisme à l’extrêmecontemporain (Septentrion, Collection “Perspectives,” 2007) wonthe Prix Debrousse-Gas-Forestier from the French Académie desBeaux-Arts. Her current research focuses on poetry from 1850 tothe present, the relationship between the arts, and on Belgiumfrancophone literature and culture.Don Share is Senior Editor of Poetry magazine in Chicago. Hewas previously Poetry Editor of Harvard Review and PartisanReview, Editor of Literary Imagination, and Curator of Poetryat Harvard University. His books include Squandermania (SaltPublishing), Union (Zoo Press), Seneca in English (PenguinClassics), and a critical edition of Basil Bunting’s poems(forthcoming, Faber and Faber). His translations of MiguelHernández, collected in I Have Lots of Heart (Bloodaxe Books)were awarded the Times Literary Supplement TranslationPrize, the Premio Valle Inclán Prize, and the PEN/New EnglandDiscovery Award. He received his PhD from the Editorial Instituteat Boston University.Willard Spiegelman is the Hughes Professor of English atSouthern Methodist University, and the editor-in-chief of TheSouthwest Review. His forthcoming books are ImaginativeTranscripts: Selected Literary Essays (Oxford), and SevenPleasures: Essays on Ordinary Happiness (Farrar Straus Giroux).Beth Staley attends West Virginia University, where sheis pursuing a PhD in English with emphasis on late nineteenthandtwentieth-century American poetry, from Dickinsononward. She also writes poems; some of them have recentlyappeared in Kestrel, Hamilton Stone Review, and Crate, whichnamed her this year’s Tomas Rivera selection for her work as apoet and teacher.Susan Strehle is Professor of English at Binghamton University,part of the State University of New York. She is the author ofTransnational Women’s Fiction: Unsettling Home and Homeland(2008) as well as two other books and several articles aboutcontemporary fiction. She is Chief Reader for the AdvancedPlacement test in Literature and Composition and thusconcerned with high school reading and its intersection withachievement in college.For nearly a decade Clifford Thompson has contributed personalessays as well as pieces on books and jazz to The ThreepennyReview. In addition, he has published essays and reviews inCommonweal, The Iowa Review, Cineaste, Film Quarterly, BlackIssues Book Review, and The Best American Movie Writing1999, among other places. A graduate of Oberlin College, he isPhiladelphia, October 24-26 11
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