About the Contributors
Dr Eva Aldea is a Visiting Lecturer at Goldsmiths College and University of Westminster. She has published and presented on magical realism, Gilles Deleuze, literature and philosophy and contemporary fiction and drama. Her book The Indiscernibility of Difference: Gilles Deleuze and Magical Realism will be published by Continuum at the end of 2010.
Leif Bull is a PhD student at Goldsmiths, where he also works as a Visiting Tutor. He has presented papers on Richard Yates at the ‘Real Things’ conference at the University of York in July 2007, and at the 2009 conference of the International Society for the Study of Narrative in Birmingham. He has also published work on Yates in Peer English: The Journal of New Critical Thinking, and has written a chapter for the forthcoming anthology Realism’s Others, edited by Dr Eva Aldea and Dr Geoff Baker. He is currently organising a one-day conference on Richard Yates, scheduled to take place at Goldsmiths on the 5th of June 2010.
Emma Haigh's main interests are anxiety, insecurity and fictional spies. She curated the Best of Bond event at the Barbican (2007), has presented at GLITS (2009, 2010) and is eagerly awaiting confirmation for upcoming conferences. Recently, she launched The Spy Project (http://thespyproject.wordpress.com).
Catherine Humble holds a BA in English from King’s College, Cambridge, an MA in Twentieth Century Literature from Goldsmiths, an MA in Creative Writing from Birkbeck, and is currently working on a PhD thesis on American suburban realism and psychoanalysis. She has written several reviews for the Times Literary Supplement on contemporary fiction and continental philosophy, including articles about Heidegger, Levinas, Slavoj Zizek, and David Foster Wallace. She has also written regularly for the Telegraph and the Observer. Her creative fiction has appeared in the WritLoud online journal. In the summer of 2009 she organised the Goldsmiths GLITS Literature and Ethics Conference, presenting a paper on Raymond Carver. Teaching experience includes taking undergraduate seminars at Goldsmiths in the short story and poetry. She is currently working on editing a volume of articles about ethics and literature.
Kevin O'Neill is a part-time PhD student in the English and Comparative Literature Department at Goldsmiths. He has presented papers on McSweeney's at the 'Identity and Form' conference at Sheffield Hallam University in July 2009, and 'Continuity and Change in American Culture' at Freie Universität Berlin, also in July 2009.
Jack Underwood was born in Norwich in 1984. He graduated from Norwich School of Art and Design in 2005 and is currently studying towards a PhD in Creative Writing at Goldsmiths College, where he also teaches English Literature and Creative Writing. He is a librettist, musician and co-edits the anthology series Stop Sharpening Your Knives. He won an Eric Gregory Award in 2007 and was named a Faber New Poet in 2009. His debut pamphlet was published by Faber in October and his poems also feature in ‘Voice Recognition: 21 poets for the 21st Century’ from Bloodaxe. Elsewhere his poems have appeared in Poetry London, Rialto, Smiths Knoll and the Manhattan Review. He regularly reviews poetry for Ambit and also Poetry London. He lives in Hackney.