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Addison’s and Steele’s Spectator is forthcoming from the University of
Delaware Press (2005).
Sergio Rizzo is one of the many that make up the great reserve army of
imemployed or marginally employed scholars. For several years, he has taught
classes in composition, American literature, film, and cultural criticism. He has
published on William Carlos Williams and such popular culture topics as
presidents’ wives, Winona Ryder in The Crucible, and the semiotics of
American money. Currently, he is working on the election of Arnold
Schwarzenegger as the governor of California and the rise of postmodern
fascism.
Roberta Sabbath is adjunct faculty in the English Department at the University
of Nevada, Las Vegas. Her teaching includes world literature, reflecting her
comparatist interests. She has chaired several panels nationally on the Hebrew
Bible, New Testament, and Qur’an as literary works. Current projects include
composition assessment, developing online classes, and the Women’s Research
Institute.
Mel Seesholtz is tenured in the English Department at Penn State Abington
College, and also teaches in the American Studies and Science, Technology, and
Society programs. He has authored several print and online articles about
marriage equality and the political power of the evangelical Christian Right.
Laurens Tan practices art and design in Sydney, Australia. His recently
completed doctoral thesis, “The Architecture of Risk,” is a prognosis of projects
based on game theory, entertainment design technology, and architecture. His
new works link the semiotics of mathematical relationships in aesthetic form
and engineering structure. He is Head of School at the Raffles KvB Institute of
Technology in Sydney.