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• Notes on Contributors

MARY ANNE LEWIS CUSATO is an award-winning Associate Professor of World Languages and Cultures at Ohio Wesleyan University, where she directs the French Program and co-founded and co-directs the Palmer Global Scholars Program. Professor Cusato's teaching and scholarship focus on such phenomena as multiculturalism in France and globalization's effects on the culture industry. Her recent work has appeared in such venues as Expressions maghrébines, The Journal of North African Studies, Contemporary French and Francophone Studies: SITES, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and Inside Higher Ed. Professor Cusato has also become a leader in helping faculty and students, especially those in the Humanities, connect coursework and career. Readers can find out more about her work at her website.

PILAR DIPIETRO is a freelance travel writer living in York, South Carolina. She earned her MA in composition and rhetoric from Winthrop University, where she embraced environmental and travel writing but honed in on place theory. She introduced her own theory of place-soul—the discovery of place through all six senses—in her graduate thesis and continues to utilize this theory in her travel writing. Her work has been published in Smokelong Quarterly, Nobody's Home: Modern Southern Folklore, and South Carolina Bards Poetry Anthology. DiPietro is currently completing her first book of South Carolina travelogues.

KATHERINE GUTIÉRRIEZ-GLIK is a PhD candidate in the English department at Saint Louis University. Her research interests center around contemporary postcolonial literature, queer theory, feminist theory, and gender studies. Gutiérrez-Glik is currently working on her dissertation, exploring how representations of queer desire and identity in contemporary postcolonial literature function as a site of reinvention and cultural activism. Gutiérrez-Glik received her bachelor's degree in English from the University of Missouri–Columbia and her master's degree in English with an emphasis in women's and gender studies from Loyola University Chicago.

CARESSE JOHN is an associate professor and chair of the English department at Belmont University. Her research and teaching interests are nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature, gender studies, African American literature, twentieth-century poetry, and literary theory. She has published a number of articles on Nella Larsen, the most recent being her chapter, "Nella Larsen's Modernism," in Approaches to Teaching the Novels of Nella Larsen (MLA's Approaches to Teaching World Literature series).

BRIAN MCCARTY has studied representations of space in an eclectic range of texts, media, and historical milieus as a graduate student at Southern Illinois University. He is primarily concerned with disjunctions between spatial epistemologies and spatial practice, with the latter providing approaches to experiencing and expressing agency in potentially transformational ways. His current research looks at how boredom emerges as an aesthetic that, in conjunction with consumption habits, maps out characters' movements and mediates their experiences of space in films, literature, and a variety of archival texts from the long 1950s. Besides research, he also enjoys writing poetry, watching films noirs, and hiking with his wife, daughter, and son.

RACHEL THARP works in paratextual analysis, a field combining literary, historical, and paleographical approaches. She specializes in medieval and early modern literature with particular attention to learning and literacy, poetics, notational innovations in scriptoria, and editorial interventions in print. Tharp completed her PhD in literary and cultural studies at the University of Oklahoma's Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. She is currently working on a grant-funded project to digitize and transcribe sixty thousand notecards detailing the differences between the surviving manuscripts of The Canterbury Tales. The result will be a web-based electronic supplement to John Manly and Edith Rickert's The Text of the Canterbury Tales.

VICTORIA VYGODSKAIA-RUST is an independent scholar who grew up in Minsk, Belarus. After studying in Germany and the Netherlands, Rust settled in Missouri, where she received her PhD in German and comparative literature from Washington University in St. Louis. Rust's research interests include fashion under totalitarian regimes, New Women of the Weimar Republic and Lenin's Russia, Austrian Jewish author Vicki Baum, and Russian film under Putin. Rust is currently working on a book analyzing influences of Nietzsche in the works of the early-twentieth...