Ann Jennalie Cook

Ann Jennalie Cook is the author of The Privileged Playgoers of Shakespeare’s London, 1576-1642, and Making a Match: Courtship in Shakespeare and His Society, both published by Princeton University Press. She has served as an officer of the International Shakespeare Association, on the Board of the Folger Shakespeare Library, and—from 1975 until 1987—as Executive Director of the Shakespeare Association of America. Her work has been supported by fellowships from both the Rockefeller and Guggenheim Foundations. Recently she was named a Life Trustee of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust in Stratford-Upon-Avon, the only American to hold this honor. She taught for more than twenty years at Vanderbilt University.

John Ernest

John Ernest has been identified as our most knowledgeable scholar of nineteenth-century African American literature, a judgment confirmed by the essays he has published in PMLA, American Literary History, and American Literature, among other journals, by the modern editions he has published of classic texts by William Wells Brown and William and Ellen Craft, and particularly by his two books, Resistance and Reformation in Nineteenth-Century African-American Literature and Liberation Historiography: African American Writers and the Challenge of History. He is now at work on a new book, “Chaotic Justice: Rethinking African American Literary History.” John Ernest holds the Ph.D. from the University of Virginia and taught at Florida International University and the University of New Hampshire before taking up his current post as Eberly Family Distinguished Professor of American Literature at West Virginia University.

Michael Griffith

Michael Griffith's books are Bibliophilia: A Novella and Stories and Spikes: A Novel; his fiction and nonfiction have appeared in New England Review, Salmagundi, Oxford American, Southwest Review, Five Points, Virginia Quarterly Review, Golf World, and The Washington Post, among other periodicals. His work has been honored by fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Humanities Center, the Taft Foundation, the Louisiana Division of the Arts, and the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. Michael Griffith was educated at Princeton and Louisiana State University. Formerly Associate Editor of the Southern Review, he is now Associate Professor of English at the University of Cincinnati and Editor of Yellow Shoe Fiction, an original-fiction series from LSU Press.

Jennifer Lewin

Jennifer Lewin is a remarkably versatile young scholar whose interests range from the Bible to Modern Poetry. Her essays and reviews, on topics as diverse as Spenser, Milton, Shakespeare, Eighteenth-Century poetry and Twentieth-Century New Criticism, have appeared in Modern Philology, Shakespeare Studies, the Boston Review, Blackwell’s Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry in English, and other publications. She is the editor of Never Again Would Birds' Song Be the Same , a collection of essays in honor of John Hollander. Her book “Wild Work: Making Dreams Truths in Renaissance England,” is under review, and she is already at work on new projects. Educated at Brandeis and Yale, she also taught at both those institutions and at the University of the South before taking up her current post as Assistant Professor of English at the University of Kentucky.

Lawrence Lipking

Lawrence Lipking is the author of many books on eighteenth-century and Romantic writing, including The Ordering of the Arts in Eighteenth-Century England, The Life of the Poet: Beginning and Ending Poetic Careers, Abandoned Women and the Poetic Tradition, and Samuel Johnson: The Life of an Author. He also edited the eighteenth-century section of The Norton Anthology of English Literature, the standard text for college English Literature surveys. He has won the William Riley Parker Prize for publishing the best article of the year in PMLA and the Christian Gauss Award of the Phi Beta Kappa Society for writing the best book of the year in literary criticism. He is now at work on a study of relations between imagination and science during the Scientific Revolution. Lawrence Lipking received his Ph.D. from Cornell University and is Chester D. Tripp Professor of Humanities, Emeritus, at Northwestern.

Charles Martin

Charles Martin is equally accomplished as an original poet and as a student and translator of Latin verse. His works in the former category include Room for Error (1978), Steal the Bacon (1987), and What the Darkness Proposes (1996), and in the latter, both a translation of The Poems of Catullus (1995) and a critical study of that poet. His most recent works are Starting from Sleep: New and Selected Poems (2002), which was a finalist for the Lemore Marshall Prize from the American Academy of Poets, and a translation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses (2004), which won that organization's Harold Morton Landon Award for translation. Charles Martin received his degrees from Fordham and the SUNY at Buffalo and has taught at the City University of New York and Syracuse University. In 2005 the American Academy of Arts and Letters honored him with the coveted Award for Literature.

Christopher M. McDonough

Christopher M. McDonough is Associate Professor of Classical Languages at the University of the South, where he has chaired both the Classics Department and the Interdisciplinary Humanities Program. Before coming to Sewanee in 2002, he taught at Boston College, Princeton University, and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He is at work on a study of Roman Religion, forthcoming from Blackwell, and a study of Roman Mythology, forthcoming from Cambridge. He also co-authored an annotated translation of Servius’ Commentary on Book Four of Virgil’s Aeneid, published in 2003. His scholarly articles have appeared in American Journal of Philology, Mnemosyne, Classical Quarterly, and other journals, and his book reviews in The Weekly Standard and The Sewanee Review. His innovative teaching of the classics has been profiled in The Boston Globe and The Chronicle of Higher Education. Chris McDonough received his B.A. from Tufts University and his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Ellen Slezak

Ellen Slezak is the author of a highly praised novel, All These Girls, and the acclaimed short story collection, Last Year’s Jesus. She has also published short fiction in the American Literary Review, The Sun, ZYZZYVA, and Crab Orchard Review among other literary journals. She has been honored with fellowships from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, the MacDowell Colony, and the Centrum Arts Center. She was a finalist in the Iowa Short Fiction Awards and has twice been awarded Illinois Arts Council grants for fiction writing. A graduate of the University of Michigan, she has taught fiction-writing at UCLA and, as a Visiting Tennessee Williams Fellow, at the University of the South.

John Jeremiah Sullivan

John Jeremiah Sullivan , who has worked as an editor at Harper’s, The Oxford American, and Oxford University Press, is now Writer-at-Large for GQ Magazine. His journalism and reviews have appeared in the Paris Review, the New York Review of Books, Salon, New York Magazine, the Boston Globe, and the New York Times. As an editor he won two National Magazine Awards and was nominated for a third; as a writer, he won the Whiting Writer’s Award, the Eclipse Award for the Year’s Most Outstanding Piece of Equine Journalism, and a National Magazine Award for Feature Writing. His first book, Blood Horses: Notes of a Sportswriter’s Son, was published in 2004. A graduate of the University of the South, he now serves as Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington.