Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
ADAM H. KITZES is a professor of English at the University of North Dakota. His book, The Politics of Melancholy from Spenser to Milton, was published by Routledge in 2006. Recent publications include essays on Bowdler’s The Family Shakespeare (Journal of Early Modern Cultural Studies), John Dennis’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s Merry Wives of Windsor (Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Theatre Research), Anthony Munday’s English Roman Life (Renaissance Studies), and The Life and Martyrdom of Sir John Oldcastle (forthcoming in Shakespeare).
DENISE KOHN is professor and chair of English at Baldwin Wallace University in Ohio, where she teaches courses in American literature, women’s literature, and writing. She is the editor of Laura Curtis Bullard’s suffrage novel Christine (1856), published by U of Nebraska P as part of its Legacies Series; and she is coeditor of Transatlantic Stowe: Harriet Beecher Stowe and European Culture with Sarah Meer and Emily Todd. Her research interests and articles focus primarily on the work of American women writers in the long nineteenth century.
KYLE RICHERT KAMAIOPILI is Assistant Professor of English and Literature at Utah Valley University. His scholarship and pedagogy engage with global Indigenous literatures, connections between Oceanic and Native North American literatures, Herman Melville and the American whale fishery of the nineteenth century, and ancestral storytelling traditions.
MATTHEW HEIDER is a PhD candidate at Tufts University. His research interests include the American twentieth century, poetry, ecocriticism, and the Gothic. Matthew, who lives in Minnesota, is currently working on a dissertation that focuses on ecocritical ideas of apocalypse and poetic alternatives to it.
KASEY JONES-MATRONA is a doctoral candidate and graduate teaching assistant in the English Department at the University of Oklahoma, where she studies indigenous feminisms and futurisms.
LISA KARAKAYA’s research focuses on issues of social class, home, exile, language, and agency in contemporary women’s writing. In May of 2019 she defended her dissertation, which examines social class in the works of selected contemporary French and francophone women writers. Publications include “Hiraeth: Marie Cardinal’s Nostalgia and the Question of Class,” Women in French Studies special issue journal (December 2017), and “A Troubling Absence: Home, Exile, and the Search for Female Identity in the Works of Marie Cardinal and Marguerite Duras,” SPFFA journal Francographies (December 2015). Lisa has taught French language and literature since 2011 and currently teaches at Queens College and Baruch College, CUNY.
