CONTRIBUTERS

• Timothy W. Bintrim is associate professor of English and environmental studies at Saint Francis University in Loretto, Pennsylvania. He has published on Cather’s work as a journalist, youth editor, and illustrator; on dandies, sneak thieves, and suicide in “Paul’s Case”; and on her friends Ethelbert Nevin, Isabelle McClung, and George Gerwig, among others. Currently writing a monograph on Cather and Pittsburgh, he will codirect the Sixteenth International Cather Seminar there in June 2017.
• Angela Conrad is professor of English and chair of the Division of Humanities at Bloomfield College. She holds a PhD from Drew University in English literature. In 1998 she was program director of the “Willa Cather in New York” International Colloquium. Conrad is author of The Wayward Nun of Amherst: Emily Dickinson and Medieval Mystical Women (2000). She served for five years as a trustee of the New Jersey Humanities Council. Her more recent publications include “Blessed Damsels, Lost Ladies and Cather’s Real Women” in Willa Cather and Aestheticism (2012).
• Joshua Doležal is professor of English at Central College. His scholarship has appeared in Medical Humanities, Literature and Medicine, Ethics and the Environment, and Cather Studies. He is the author of a memoir, Down from the Mountaintop: From Belief to Belonging (2014), and poems and essays in Kenyon Review, Shenandoah, Hudson Review, Utne Reader, Fourth Genre, and other literary magazines.
• Charmion Gustke is assistant professor of English at Belmont University, where she teaches courses in writing, literature, and culture. She was awarded a James Woodress Grant from the University of Nebraska in 2012, during which time she began to investigate Cather’s later work in the context of the Great Depression. Her research examines the material, economic, and feminist trajectories in Cather’s life and in her writing. She is currently working on a project analyzing Obscure Destinies alongside photographs taken by Dorothea Lange during the New Deal period.
• Richard C. Harris is the John J. McMullen Professor of Humanities and assistant dean at Webb Institute. He has published extensively on Cather in such venues as Cather Studies, Studies in American Fiction, the Journal of Narrative Theory, the Midwest Review, and the Willa Cather Newsletter and Review. He was the historical editor for the Willa Cather Scholarly Edition of One of Ours (2006) and is a member of the Board of Governors of the Willa Cather Foundation.
• James A. Jaap is senior instructor in English specializing in Pittsburgh literature and history at the Greater Allegheny campus of Pennsylvania State University. In 2013 he was awarded a James Woodress Fellowship, and his article on Cather and the sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens appeared in the Spring 2016 edition of the Willa Cather Newsletter and Review. He and his family live in the East End of Pittsburgh, not far from where Cather resided when she first arrived in the city in 1896. He is codirecting the Cather International Seminar in Pittsburgh in June 2017.
• Andrew Jewell is professor in the University Libraries, University of Nebraska–Lincoln, and director of the Willa Cather Archive (cather.unl.edu). Andy has published several essays on Cather and other American writers, scholarly editing, and digital humanities. He is coeditor of the books The American Literature Scholar in the Digital Age (2011) and The Selected Letters of Willa Cather (2013), and is coeditor of the forthcoming digital scholarly edition, The Complete Letters of Willa Cather. Since 2008, Andy has been a member of the Board of Governors of the Willa Cather Foundation.
• Mark J. Madigan is professor of English at Nazareth College in Rochester, New York. He was the historical editor of Youth and the Bright Medusa in the Willa Cather Scholarly Edition (2009) and editor of three volumes by Dorothy Canfield Fisher. In addition to his work on Cather and Fisher, he has published numerous articles on such other American writers as Charles W. Chesnutt, Nella Larsen, and Richard Wright. Madigan has been a Fulbright Scholar in Ljubljana, Slovenia, and a Fulbright Specialist in Zadar, Croatia.
• Michelle E. Moore is professor of English at the College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn, Illinois, where she teaches courses on American and European modern literatures and film. Her scholarship has appeared in Cather Studies, the Faulkner Journal, and Approaches to Teaching Henry James’s “Daisy Miller” and “The Turn of the Screw.”
• Ann Moseley is a William L. Mayo Professor and professor of literature and languages emerita at Texas A&M University–Commerce and the historical editor for the Willa Cather Scholarly Edition of The Song of the Lark. Her most recent articles on Cather have appeared in Teaching the Works of Willa Cather (2009), Willa Cather’s The Song of the Lark (2010), Willa Cather: A Writer’s Worlds (2010), and Willa Cather and the Nineteenth Century (2015). Coeditor of the present volume and codirector of the 2013 International Cather Seminar, Moseley has also coauthored three composition textbooks, one of which, Interactions: A Thematic Reader (2012), is in its ninth edition.
• John J. Murphy is professor of English emeritus, Brigham Young University, and author of “My Ántonia”: The Road Home (1989) and many major essays on Cather and other American writers. He serves on the Board of Governors of the Willa Cather Foundation. Murphy is coeditor of two Cather Studies collections (2010, 2017) and volume editor and coeditor, respectively, of the Willa Cather Scholarly Editions of Death Comes for the Archbishop (1999) and Shadows on the Rock (2005). In 1981 he directed the first International Cather Seminar, and subsequently he codirected the 2007 and 2013 seminars as well as the Rome Cather Symposium in 2014. He has conducted courses and lectured on Cather in several European countries, China, and Taiwan. He and his wife, Sally, presently live in the Boston area.
• Joseph C. Murphy is associate professor and chair of the English department at Fu Jen Catholic University. His essays on Cather have appeared in Cather Studies, the Willa Cather Newsletter and Review, Wagner and Literature: New Directions (special issue of Forum for Modern Language Studies), and the collections Violence, the Arts, and Willa Cather (2007) and Willa Cather and Aestheticism (2012). His other publications include articles on Benjamin Franklin, Walt Whitman, Flannery O’Connor, and Cormac McCarthy. He now contributes the annual review of Cather criticism for American Literary Scholarship.
• David Porter was Tisch Family Professor of Liberal Arts at Skidmore College, where he was president from 1987 to 1999. Over the course of a long and distinguished career, he taught as well at Carleton, Princeton, Williams, and Indiana. A classicist and musician by training, he began working on Willa Cather and Virginia Woolf in 2000. His On the Divide: The Many Lives of Willa Cather was published in 2008, and the next year he and Lucy Marks coauthored Seeking Life Whole: Willa Cather and the Brewsters. Porter was historical editor of the most recent volume in the Willa Cather Scholarly Edition, Lucy Gayheart (2015). He died in March 2016.
• Diane Prenatt is professor of English at Marian University, where she teaches American and European literature. She has published essays in two previous volumes of Cather Studies (2010, 2011) and in the Willa Cather Newsletter and Review. She is now at work on a biography of Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant and recently published an essay on Sergeant’s World War I memoir Shadow-Shapes in Studies in the Humanities.
• Steven B. Shively is associate professor of English at Utah State University, where he teaches courses in English education, American literature and culture, and mythology. He serves on the Board of Governors of the Willa Cather Foundation and regularly presents papers at Cather conferences, primarily on the topics of religion, culture, and pedagogy. He is coeditor of Teaching the Works of Willa Cather (2009) and is an issue editor of the Willa Cather Newsletter and Review. He has also published essays on the Harlem Renaissance writer Nella Larsen and the folklorist Benjamin Botkin.
• Janis Stout is professor emerita of English and dean of faculties/associate provost emerita at Texas A&M University. She has published extensively on Cather as well as other American and British writers. Her three most recent books are Picturing a Different West: Vision, Illustration, and the Tradition of Cather and Austin (2007), South by Southwest: Katherine Anne Porter and the Burden of Texas History (2013), and, coedited with Andrew Jewell, The Selected Letters of Willa Cather (2013).
• Robert Thacker is Charles A. Dana Professor of Canadian Studies and English at St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York, where Frederic Remington was born and is buried. Among his books are Alice Munro: Writing Her Lives: A Biography (2005, revised 2011) and a recent gathering of his critical articles on the Nobel Laureate, Reading Alice Munro, 1973–2013 (2016). He has published numerous articles on Cather, codirected three International Cather Seminars, and coedited three volumes of Cather Studies. A member of the Board of Governors of the Willa Cather Foundation, he is historical editor of the Poems volume forthcoming in the Willa Cather Scholarly Edition and wrote the annual review of Cather studies for American Literary Scholarship from 2008 to 2014.