Contributor Biographies
Joseph F. Ceccio is professor of English and graduate studies coordinator at the
University of Akron in Ohio. He received his Ph.D. in English from the University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Daniel Ferreras Savoye is professor of French, Spanish and Comparative
Literatures at West Virginia University. His work has appeared in Hispania, French
Literature Series, Angulo Recto, and La tribuna. He is also the author of The Signs of
James Bond (McFarland, 2013) and Lo fantastico en la literatura y el cine (ACVF,
2014).
Robert Johnson teaches literature and composition at Midwestern State University in
Wichita Falls, Texas. Academic interests include composition, Victorians, Modernism,
adaptation, and the short story, his latest two placements stories in Short Story and
Kestrel.
Melanie A. Marotta teaches in the Department of English and Language Arts at
Morgan State University.
Keith Moser is Associate Professor of French at Mississippi State University. He has
published four books since 2008. Moser has also contributed numerous essays to peerreviewed publications, such as The French Review, The International Journal of
Francophone Studies, Dalhousie French Studies, French Cultural Studies, and Forum
for Modern Language Studies.
William Nesbit teaches English and literature at Beacon College where he is the Chair
of Interdisciplinary Studies. I have published critical and creative work in The Journal of
Evolutionary Psychology, The Southeast Review, Route 7 Review, and Kudzu
Quarterly. He has presented on the Beats at SCMLA, ASLE, the Annual Conference of
the Marxist Reading Group at UF, The PCA/ACA National Conference, SAMLA, the
Burroughs Century, Whitman and the Beats, and the International Film and Literature
Conference at FSU, among others. He has also presented at MLA.
Blind since birth due to Retinopathy of Prematurity, Nicole White lives in Las Vegas
Nevada, holds a BA in English from UNLV, and is pursuing graduate studies in Creative
Writing. An avid reader, writer, singer, theatergoer, and traveler, she can often be found
analyzing and memorizing lyrics and book passages.
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