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Southwest, examines early Mexican American novels and
autobiographies. His essays appear in the anthologies Look Away! The U.S
South in New World Studies and Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton: Critical and
Pedagogical Perspectives.
Chase Pielak teaches English at Ashford University in Clinton, lA. His research
centers on animal and human representations in transatlantic nineteenth-century
literature and culture. Memorializing Animals During the Romantic Period, his
first book, is forthcoming with Ashgate. He has published articles in Victorian
Literature and Culture and Modern Language Studies. He received his Ph.D. in
English from Claremont Graduate University in California in 2011.
Maria S. Rankin-Brown is a Professor of English at Pacific Union College
where she coordinates the composition program and teaches literature and
writing. She received a PhD in Rhetoric and Linguistics from Indiana University
of Pennsylvania. Her research interests lie in contemporary literature, and in
Japanese literature and culture.
Linda A. Robinson is an Assistant Professor in the Communication Department
at the University of Wisconsin Whitewater. She earned an MA in cinematic
studies at the University o f Southern California and a PhD in film studies at
Northwestern University. She is a film historian whose research interests include
cinematic nostalgia, the cinematic telling of history and representation of the
past, and film adaptation. Recent publications include “Crinolines and
Pantalettes: What MGM’s Switch in Time Did to Pride and Prejudice (1940),”
Adaptation (2013) 6 (3): 283-304; and “Right Here in Mason City: The Music
Man and Small Town Nostalgia,” in The Place o f the Moving Image, Elena
Gorfinkel and John David Rhodes, eds. (University of Minnesota Press, 2012).
H. Peter Steeves is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Humanities
Center at DePaul University. He specializes in phenomenology, ethics, and
philosophy of science, and is the author of several books, including: Founding
Community: A Phenomenological-Ethical Inquiry, The Things Themselves:
Phenomenology and the Return to the Everyday', and Animal Others: On Ethics,
Ontology, and Animal Life.