ASEBL Journal – Volume 11 Issue 2, Spring 2015
CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE
Ryan O. Begley is a doctoral student at the University of Missouri, where he studies human
sociocultural behavior from an evolutionary perspective. Primarily ethnological, his research
focuses on traditional storytelling as a descendant-leaving strategy.
Kathryn Coe is a Professor in the Fairbanks School of Public Health. Her primary interest is
in culture and evolutionary biology. She is the author of a number of papers and one book, The
Ancestress Hypothesis, which addresses art and its definition and function.
Ellen Dissanayake has developed her interdisciplinary ideas about the origin and evolution of
the arts in three books and numerous scholarly articles and book chapters from 1974 to the
present. She has been especially influenced by ethological theory (the study of animal and human behavior) and the sixteen years that she lived in non-Western countries, including Sri
Lanka, Nigeria, and Papua New Guinea. An independent scholar, she is currently Affiliate
Professor in the School of Music at the University of Washington in Seattle. See her website
www.ellendissanayake.com and read some of her publications on www.academia.edu
Justin R. Garcia is Assistant Professor of Gender Studies and Assistant Research Scientist at
The Kinsey Institute, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA. He is co-author of Evolution and
Human Sexual Behavior (Harvard University Press, 2013) and co-editor of Evolution’s Empress (Oxford University Press, 2013).
Dustin Hellberg is an assistant professor in the Department of English Language and Literature, Yonsei University, Seoul. His novel, Squirrel Haus, was recently published and he has a
book of poetry – A Perfect Sphere on a Frictionless Plane – and a book of criticism – World
Enough – coming out soon, in addition to several poems and articles. He’s a graduate of the
Iowa Writer’s Workshop and EGS, Switzerland. He also trains in MMA.
José Ángel García Landa (MA Brown University, Ph.D. University of Zaragoza) is a senior
lecturer in English at the University of Zaragoza, Spain. He has edited several collections of
critical papers and is the author of Samuel Beckett y la Narración Reflexiva and Acción, Relato, Discurso. He is currently editing A Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism and Philology, a free-access online resource, and a number of blogs. Further information and online papers
at http://bit.ly/jagluz
Anthony Lock is a philosopher of s