South Central Review

ILARIA W. BIANO is a post-doc independent researcher in the fields of Religious and Cultural Studies and Cultural and Intellectual History. She has been fellow in Italian research institutes such as Fondazione Einaudi (Torino) and Italian Institute for Historical Studies “Benedetto Croce” (Napoli). Since 2020 she is a member of the Group for the Study of the Fantastic at the “History of Religions’ Museum ‘Raffaele Pettazzoni’” (Velletri) and Editor of the Fantastic Religions Series (Quasar, Roma). Her most recent publications include, “Ryan Murphy’s ’80s and the Past as Political Postmodern Battleground,” in The ’80s Resurrected. Essays on the Decade in Popular Culture Then and Now, edited by Randy Laist (McFarland 2023); and “Implicit Religion and Trauma Narratives in Maus and Watchmen,” in Comics, Culture & Religion: Gods in Frames, edited K. de Groot (Bloomsbury 2023).

JOY DAS presently teaches English at Saheed Kshudiram College which is affiliated with the University of North Bengal (India). His areas of interest include Postcolonial Literature, Cultural Studies, Environmental Humanities, and Gender Studies, among others. He has published several research articles in reputed journals like Contemporary Voice of Dalit, Environmental Philosophy, and others. His ORCID is https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0146-9252, and he can be reached at [email protected].

TATIANA GOLBAN is Professor of Comparative Literature at Tekirdağ Namik Kemal University. Her most recent publication is “Cover-ing the Gaps in Art, Writing, and Time” in Jeanette Winterson’s The Gap of Time” (2022). Her articles on Jo Nesbø’s Macbeth and Ümit Kıvanç’s Macbeth are forthcoming. She currently resides in London conducting a research project at the University of Worcester on contemporary Shakespeare adaptations in literary works and on stage.

SARAH M. MISEMER is a Professor in the College of Performance, Visualization & Fine Arts (PVFA) with a joint appointment in the department of Global Languages and Cultures, and she serves as the senior associate dean for faculty affairs in PVFA at Texas A&M University. She is the author of three monographs and one co-edited volume. Professor Misemer has published numerous articles on contemporary River Plate, Mexican, Spanish, and Latino theater and performance. Her main areas of research include contemporary Uruguayan and Argentine theater, performance, and literature.

SIRSHA NANDI is a graduate student in the department of English at Texas A&M University. Her research interests include South Asian literature and culture. Her research focuses on the aesthetic and political networks surrounding caste in 21st century cultural narratives.

ADAM NEMMERS is an Associate Professor of English at Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas, whose research focuses on multi-ethnic American literature. His articles have appeared in such journals as South Atlantic Review, American Literary Realism, Studies in American Culture, and Southern Quarterly. He is author of the monograph American Modern(ist) Epic (Clemson University Press, 2021) and the forthcoming Transcolonial American Literature.

MOURAD ROMDHANI is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Letters and Humanities, University of Sousse, Tunisia. He holds a Ph.D degree in English literature. His fields of interest are American literature, Faulkner studies, and literary theories. He has published a number of essays on Faulkner’s major novels. His most recent research papers are entitled “Reading William Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha in the COVID-19 Era: Face masking, lockdown and free bodies,” International Journal of Linguistics, Literature and Culture 7.1 (2020); and “Cross-dressing and Symbolic Transgender Disguise in William Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha: Queer (Fe)male Identity,” The Faulkner Journal 34.2 (2024): 139-161.

ERY SHIN is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Southern Mississippi, specializing in modernism and avant-garde practices. Her first book, Gertrude Stein’s Surrealist Years (University of Alabama Press, 2020), traces Stein’s later experimental gestures and their philosophical implications within Hitler’s Europe. Her debut novel, Spring on the Peninsula, was released by Astra House this spring.

WILLIAM VAUGHAN is Professor of Philosophy at Ashland University, Ashland, Ohio.

ROBERT ZALLER, Distinguished University Professor of History Emeritus, Drexel University, is the author of The Cliffs of Solitude: A Reading of Robinson Jeffers (Cambridge University Press, second edition, 2009); Robinson Jeffers and the American Sublime (Stanford University Press, 2012); and The Atom...