Mark Bauerlein is a professor of English at Emory University. His essays have appeared in the Chronicle of Higher Education, Wall Street Journal, Weekly Standard, and Yale Review. He is the author of Negrophobia: A Race Riot in Atlanta, 1906 (2001), Literary Criticism: An Autopsy (1997), and the forthcoming The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future; Or, Don’t Trust Anyone Under 30.
Maureen Callahan is studying archival and library sciences at the University of Michigan. Her academic interests include labor, gender, tacit knowledge, and the histories of taxonomies. She is a former Great Books Foundation intern.
Béa Gonzalez writes reviews, articles, and novels—two of which have been translated into German, Dutch, Spanish and Serbian. Her latest novel, The Mapmaker’s Opera (2007), was recently published in the United States. Born in Vigo, Spain, she now lives in Toronto.
Jonathan Gross is a professor of English at DePaul University and director of the DePaul Humanities Center. He is the author of Byron: The Erotic Liberal (2001) and has edited Byron’s “Corbeau Blanc”: The Life and Letters of Lady Melbourne, 1751–1818 (1997) and Thomas Jefferson’s Scrapbooks: Poems of Nation, Family, and Romantic Love Collected by America’s Third President (2006).
Stephen Hartnett teaches in, and writes about, the American prison system, and currently runs a weekly poetry workshop at the Champaign County Jail. His most recent books are Globalization and Empire: The U.S. Invasion of Iraq, Free Markets, & The Twilight of Democracy (2006), and Incarceration Nation: Investigative Prison Poems of Hope and Terror (2004).
Leslie Haynsworth is an instructor of creative writing for the Arts Institute at the University of South Carolina. She is co-author with David Toomey of Amelia Earhart’s Daughters: The Wild And Glorious Story Of American Women Aviators From World War II To The Dawn Of The Space Age (2000). Her writing has also appeared, or is forthcoming, in CrossRoads: A Southern Culture Annual, Publishers Weekly, and the Denver Post.
Lisa Haney is a scratchboard artist and rock ’n’ roll cellist living in Boulder, Colorado. Her clients include the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. Her website is lisahaney.com
Dana Heller is a professor of English and director of the Humanities Institute and Graduate Program at Old Dominion University.
Jean Janzen has written seven collections of poems. Her latest collection, Piano in the Vineyard (2004), was published by Good Books, and her collected essays, Elements of Faithful Writing, was published by Pandora Press in 2004.
Onsmith Jeremi is a cartoonist and illustrator living in Chicago. His comics, prints, and illustrations have appeared in the Chicago Reader, Oxford American Magazine, Vice Magazine, and An Anthology of Graphic Fiction, Cartoons & True Stories (2006). His website is onsmithcomics.com.
Damara Kaminecki is an illustrator and bookbinder born and raised in the Logan Square neighborhood of Chicago. She began her art career at Gallery 37, painting cows for the city’s “Cows on Parade” exhibition, and later received her BFA in drawing from the Prat Institute in Brooklyn. Her website is damarakthedestroyer.com.
Everett Mattlin was the founding editor of Gentleman’s Quarterly, where he served for thirteen years as editor. His articles have appeared in Esquire, Family Circle, the New York Times Magazine, Playboy, and Town & Country. He has written eleven books.
Kevin Mattson is Connor Study Professor of Contemporary History at Ohio University. He is active in the American Association of University Professors and on the editorial board of Dissent. He is the editor, along with Neil Jumonville, of Liberalism for a New Century (2007) and author of the forthcoming Rebels All!: A Short History of the Conservative Mind in Postwar America.
Nicholas Sabloff is a graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and a former intern for The Common Review. He is currently employed as an associate news editor at the Huffington Post.
Lori Shine is the managing editor of Wave Books. Her poems have appeared in 6x6, the American Poetry Review, New American Writing, and Tin House, and her chapbook, Coming Down in White, was recently published by Pilot Books.
Mark Sibicky is a professor of psychology and director of the MA program in psychology at Marietta College in Marietta, Ohio. He has authored and co-authored several articles in the area of social and personality psychology, most recently in the journal Teaching of Psychology.
Ian Williams was born in Liverpool, England, and now lives in upstate New York. He claims to have “more columns than the Parthenon” on his site, deadlinepundit.blogspot.com, and he is a regular contributor to the online edition of the Guardian. His latest book is Rum: A Social & Sociable History of the Real Spirit of 1776 (2005).