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.

Contributors

Shawn Phillip Cooper

Shawn Phillip Cooper is an arts columnist and assistant editor at The European Conservative and vice president of the International Courtly Literature Society, North American Branch. He is also on the advisory board of the journal Encomia. His work, addressing the intersection of culture and politics, has been published in venues including The European Conservative, The American Conservative, The Lamp, Law & Liberty, The American Mind, Encomia, and in scholarly volumes including Courtly Pastimes and Unveiling the Green Knight: Critical Essays on Gawain's Journey.

Bainard Cowan

Bainard Cowan holds the Cowan Chair in the Humanities at the University of Dallas. After a B.A. in English from there, he studied German literature, Russian, and philosophy at the University of Munich before earning his Ph.D. from Yale. At Louisiana State University, he taught English and honors Western civilization and helped to found the doctoral program in comparative literature. His publications include Exiled Waters: Moby- Dick and the Crisis of Allegory (Louisiana State University Press, 1982), "Through the Unlit Door of Earth: Sophocles' Transformation of Tragedy" (The Tragic Abyss, 2004), The Prospect of Lyric (ed., Dallas Institute Publications, 2012), and "Ishmael’s Sabbatical" (What Is a Teacher?, 2013).

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.

Thomas W. Stanford III

Thomas W. Stanford III is Professor of English Language and Literature at Christendom College. His published essays examine the works of a variety of authors, from Jane Austen and Ernest Hemingway to Wendell Berry and the New Critics. His essays also appear in the Ignatius Critical Editions of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.