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faculty at the College of Notre Dame, and continues to freelance as an A&E
journalist. Her research interests focus on 19th-century British literature, with
particular interest in New Womanism, naturalist drama, sensational/detective
fiction, early feminism, literary theory, and the underpinnings of modernism.
Additional areas of interest and practice include creative nonfiction and the
personal essay.
Anthony Guy Patricia is currently working on a PhD in English with
specializations in Shakespeare, drama, and rhetoric and composition at the
University of Nevada, Las Vegas. The working title of his dissertation is
“Through the Eyes of the Present: Reading and Screening the Male Homoerotics
of Shakespearean Drama,” which will analyze literary and visual iterations of
male homoeroticism in a number of Shakespeare’s playtexts (including A
Midsummer Night's Dream, Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Twelfth Night, The
Merchant o f Venice, As You Like It, and Othello) and significant 20th/21st
century film/television productions of these works. As a graduate teaching
assistant of English at UNLV, he also teaches courses in Freshman
Composition, World Literature, and Shakespeare.
Diana C. Reep, professor, The University of Akron, has published books on
both technical communication and popular fiction of the 19th century. She has
also published a novel and numerous articles on television and gender roles,
soap operas, saloons in western films, vampire novels, and issues of professional
communication.
John Walliss is Senior Lecturer in Sociology in the Faculty of Arts and
Humanities, Liverpool Hope University, UK.