Stephen Mirarchi

Stephen Mirarchi is chair of the English Department at Benedictine College in Atchison, Kansas. He received his Ph.D. in English and American Literature from Brandeis University. He is the editor of five annotated volumes of the works of Myles Connolly, including Mr. Blue. He has also published scholarly articles on Raymond Carver, Louise Glück, Robert Pinsky, Edgar Allan Poe, and William Gilmore Simms, as well as a host of popular articles on Catholicism and literature. Most recently, he authored the entry for Robert Pinsky in the Oxford Bibliographies in American Literature.

Contributors

James Como

James Como is professor emeritus of rhetoric and public communication at York College of the City University of New York. He writes cultural and literary journalism as well as short stories and poetry, and he enjoys travel with Alexandra, his wife of fifty- six years. He has written on such figures as Borges, Thornton Wilder, de las Casas, and Sigrid Undset, as well as on Peru, the Middle Ages, Chaucer, and Shakespeare. A founding member (1969) of the New York C. S. Lewis Society, his recent books are C. S. Lewis: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2019) and Mystical Perelandra: My Lifelong Reading of C. S. Lewis and His Favorite Book (Winged Lion Press, 2022).

Robert C. Evans

Robert C. Evans is I. B. Young Professor of English (emeritus) at Auburn University at Montgomery (AUM). He earned his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1984. In 1982, he began teaching at AUM, where he was named Distinguished Research Professor, Distinguished Teaching Professor, and University Alumni Professor. External awards included fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the American Philosophical Society, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, and the Folger, Huntington, and Newberry Libraries. He is the author or editor of roughly ninety books and of more than six hundred essays, online and in print.

Aaron Urbanczyk

Aaron Urbanczyk is a professor of English at Franciscan University of Steubenville. His teaching and research interests include American literature, literary theory and criticism, Dante, Shakespeare, and ancient Greek literature. His essays and reviews have appeared in Religion & the Arts, the St. Austin Review, Modern Age, Humanitas, Essays in Arts & Sciences, Papers on Language & Literature, the Journal for Cultural & Religious Theory, Perspectives in Religious Studies, The Fellowship of Catholic Scholars Quarterly, and the Ignatius Critical Editions of Frankenstein, The Scarlet Letter, and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.