Published Winter/Spring 2009
 
Contributors' Notes
Poetry / Fiction | Essays / Interviews
Poetry / Fiction
Michelle Brafman's fiction has appeared in Lilith Magazine, Gargoyle, The Pedestal Magazine, Literary Mama, Fifth Wednesday Journal, and elsewhere. She teaches creative writing at George Washington University.
Elizabeth Eslami's work has appeared in The Steel City Review, Weber: The Contemporary West, Coe Review, and Beeswax Magazine, among others. She lives in Oregon and is currently working on her second novel.
Jason Irwin won the 2006/2007 Transcontinental Poetry Award. His first full-length collection, Watering the Dead, was published in 2008 by Pavement Saw Press.
Carrie Shipers' poems have appeared in Crab Orchard Review, Barrow Street, Hayden's Ferry Review, Mid-American Review, and other journals, and she is the author of two chapbooks, Ghost-Writing (Pudding House, 2007) and Rescue Conditions (Slipstream, 2008).
Toni Thomas' poems have appeared in Prairie Schooner, Hayden's Ferry Review, Poetry East, and in other magazines, and in the Southern California Poetry Anthology as part of the 2005 Ann Stanford Poetry Award.
Essays / Interviews
Amanda Anderson is Caroline Donovan Professor of English and Chair of the department at Johns Hopkins University. She is also the Director of the School of Criticism and Theory. Her most recent book is The Way We Argue Now: A Study in the Cultures of Theory (Princeton UP, 2006).
Jason Arthur's book project, Thinking Locally: Provincialism and Cosmopolitanism in American Literature Since the Great Depression, examines various literary responses to the post-New Deal geography of economic disparity in the US. A former editorial assistant of minnesota review, he is now an assistant professor of English at Central Methodist University.
Lauren Berlant teaches English at the University of Chicago. Her most recent book is The Female Complaint: the Unfinished Business of Sentimentality in American Culture (U Chicago P, 2008), and she has edited a two-volume special number of Critical Inquiry called On the Case (Summer 2007).
Michael Bérubé is the Paterno Family Professor in Literature at Penn State University. His forthcoming book is The Left at War (NYU P, 2009).
Marc Bousquet teaches English at Santa Clara University. He is the author of How the University Works: Higher Education in the Low-Wage Nation (NYU P, 2008), and he blogs at howtheuniversityworks.com/wordpress and for the Chronicle of Higher Education.
David Cerniglia is a PhD student in the Literary and Cultural Studies program at Carnegie Mellon University and a former assistant to the minnesota review.
Victor Cohen lives in Los Angeles and works as a grant writer for the California Science Center. He has been working on an oral history of the New American Movement (NAM) since 2006. As guest editor of the Fall 2009 edition of Works and Days, he will publish a selection of interviews from this research, as well as new essays solicited from members of NAM.
John Conley works at the University of Minnesota, where he recently defended his dissertation and completed his "apprenticeship" in the Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature. He also works at the Simpson Men's Homeless Shelter and is a member of the IWW.
David B. Downing is Director of Graduate Studies in Literature and Criticism at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of The Knowledge Contract: Politics and Paradigms in the Academic Workplace (U Nebraska P, 2005) and for the past twenty-five years has edited the journal Works and Days.
Rita Felski is William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of English at the University of Virginia and editor of New Literary History. Her most recent publications are Rethinking Tragedy (Johns Hopkins UP, 2007) and Uses of Literature (Blackwell, 2007). She is currently working on a book about the hermeneutics of suspicion.
Pamela Free is a graduate student in creative writing at Antioch-McGregor University. Her stories have been published in North American Review, Rosebud, and New Thought Journal.
Diana Fuss is the Louis W. Fairchild '24 Professor of English at Princeton University. Her most recent book is The Sense of an Interior: Four Writers and the Rooms that Shaped Them (Routledge, 2004), winner of the 2005 MLA James Russell Lowell Prize.
Loren Glass is Associate Professor of English at the University of Iowa. Author of Authors Inc.: Literary Celebrity in the Modern United States (NYU P, 2004), he is currently working on a history of Grove Press.
Gerald Graff is a professor of English and Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the author of Clueless in Academe (Yale UP, 2003) and a persuasive writing textbook (with Cathy Birkenstein) "They Say/I Say" (Norton, 2006). He served as President of MLA in 2008.
Stephen J. Greenblatt is University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University. He is the author, most recently, of Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare (Norton, 2004). He also serves as the general editor of The Norton Shakespeare and The Norton Anthology of English Literature.
Hannah Gurman received her PhD from Columbia University in May 2008 and currently teaches American Literature at Barnard College. She is working on a book about the connection between official writing and US foreign policy since the end of the Second World War.
Omaar Hena received a PhD from the University of Virginia in 2008 and currently is a Postdoctoral Fellow in English at Cornell University. He has published poetry reviews and articles in Verse and Contemporary Literature.
Katie Hogan is Professor of English and Director of Women's Studies at Carlow University. She has published Women Take Care: Gender, Race, and the Culture of AIDS (Cornell UP, 2001) and the edited collection Gendered Epidemic: Representations of Women in the Age of AIDS (with Nancy L. Roth; Routledge, 1998). She and Michelle Massé are coediting a collection, to be published by SUNY Press, Over Ten Million Served: Gendered Service in Language and Literature Workplaces.
Sharon P. Holland lives, works, and writes in Durham, NC. She is a member of the English, African and African American Studies, and Women's Studies Departments at Duke University.
Matthew Hooley is a PhD student in English at the University of Wisconsin. Currently he is at work on a dissertation about Native modernist writers in Minneapolis after 1887.
Amitava Kumar teaches English at Vassar College. He is the author of several books, including A Foreigner Carrying in the Crook of His Arm a Tiny Bomb, forthcoming from Duke University Press.
Vincent B. Leitch holds the Paul and Carol Daube Sutton Chair in English at the University of Oklahoma. He is author, most recently, of Living with Theory (2008), and general editor of the Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism (2001; 2nd ed. 2010). This year Peking University Press will publish in Chinese translation a Leitch Reader.
Devoney Looser is Associate Professor of English at the University of Missouri. She is the author of Women Writers and Old Age in Great Britain, 1750-1850 (Johns Hopkins UP, 2008) and British Women Writers and the Writing of History, 1670-1820 (Johns Hopkins UP, 2000), and coeditor of the Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies.
Michelle A. Massé directs Women's and Gender Studies at Louisiana State University. She is the author of In the Name of Love: Women, Masochism, and the Gothic (Cornell UP, 1992) and series editor of SUNY Press's Feminist Theory and Criticism. She and Katie Hogan are coediting Over Ten Million Served: Gendered Service in Language and Literature Workplaces, forthcoming from SUNY Press.
J. Hillis Miller is Distinguished Research Professor at the University of California at Irvine. He is the author of numerous books, most recently For Derrida (Fordham UP, 2009).
Martha C. Nussbaum is Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago. Her most recent book is Liberty of Conscience: In Defense of America's Tradition of Religious Equality (Basic, 2008).
Bruce Robbins is Old Dominion Foundation Professor of the Humanities in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. His most recent book is Upward Mobility and the Common Good (Princeton UP, 2007).
Andrew Ross is Professor and Chair of NYU's Department of Social and Cultural Analysis. His most recent books are Fast Boat to China: Corporate Flight and the Consequences of Free Trade—Lessons from Shanghai (Pantheon, 2006; Vintage, 2007) and Nice Work if You Can Get It: Life and Labor in Precarious Times (NYU P, 2009).
Robin J. Sowards is Assistant Professor of English at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. He is currently at work on a book about materialism in the poetry of Robert Browning.
Thomas Witholt is a graduate student in Literary and Cultural Studies at Carnegie Mellon University.
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