Contributors
Lana Cook
Editor-in-Chief
Lana is currently working on her PhD in Northeastern University’s English Department. She’s fascinated by the lived experience of reading, and likes to bring together the personal and the critical in her work. Her dissertation looks at the use of the fantastic in the literature, film, and art of the 1960s, and how these works challenged our ordinary conceptions of reality. You can follow her on Twitter and LinkedIn.
Kat Lang
Managing Editor (2011-2012)
Kat currently lives in sunny Austin, Texas and works as a support specialist for a higher education software company. An alumna of The University of Texas at Austin, she also holds a Master of Arts in English Literature from Northeastern University. She enjoys Mexican hot chocolate, Modernist and Postmodernist novels, and photosynthesizing in a sunny window.
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Megan McCormick
Design Editor
Megan grew up in Massachusetts and migrated south for her undergraduate studies, landing in Boston at Northeastern University for a BA in English. She has also completed her MA in English at NU. Megan enjoys long walks on the beach, recycling overused jokes, taking photos, and watching musicals. Her intellectual interests involve visual studies, Cuban politics and culture, Modern poetry, and the contemporary novel. She currently resides in Brooklyn, NY, and, of course, has a blog.
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Editorial Board
Genie Giaimo
Genie is a Doctoral Candidate in Northeastern University’s English Department. Her dissertation examines contemporary American life narratives through the lens of current cognitive neuroscience research on memory and visual perception. In addition to dissertating, Genie is interested in new media and its various uses as a pedagogical tool. In her spare time, she writes for the music website Mule Variations, posts on her blog Visual Memoir as well as her Other blog Pedagogical Musings, and participates in a monthly RPG (role playing game).
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Tabitha Clark
“Once, an American writer summed up this modern life in all its beauty and horror by writing three words: So it goes. I work with this simplicity as my imperative. Besides this, I have the same deep respect for American folk that has driven the American imagination since Twain. I like to tell stories.”
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“Nuxia & Lynga”
Nuxia & Lynga is an artist and computer scientist working toward his Ph.D. degree in Boston. His research is focused on the use of interactive storytelling technologies to promote health, both physical and mental. His comic books are usually of the Japanese manga style, and tend to have a flavor of serious drama.
Ashley Jean Hight
Ashley is a shy wallflower, who trekked back to rainy Portland after completing her MA from Northeastern University. Her interests include American dystopia, endless tubs of hummus, the Russians, and using her BA in English Lit as an excuse to drink copious amounts of red wine for the sake of literary inspiration. She sometimes tweets feminist rants and other facetious insights.
Zoey Farber
Jefferson Riordan
Lauren S Schechinger
Tim Strange
Rebecca Thorndike-Breeze, PhD
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