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Dylan Review Vol. 8.1, Spring/Summer 2026 – Contributors

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Andrew Beck is the author of best-selling and frequently cited works such as Cultural Work (2003). He retired from Coventry University in 2017 but continues to teach, advise, research, and publish. In the last the years he has contributed to and edited eleven books, mainly on UK media politics, and occasional features for China Eye.

Anne Margaret Daniel teaches at the New School University in New York City and at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson. Her essays on literature, music, books, baseball, and culture have appeared in The New York Times, Hot Press, The Spectator, and The Times Literary Supplement.

Timothy Hampton is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Bob Dylan, How the Songs Work (Zone Books, 2019) and Cheerfulness: A Literary and Cultural History (Zone Books, 2022). His newest book, Trespasser: A Story of Class, Poverty and Education in the American Desert, will be published in early 2027 by High Road Books.

Christine Hand Jones is an Assistant Teaching Professor of Writing and Reasoning at Southern Methodist University, an active singer-songwriter, and a composer-lyricist-book writer for musical theatre. She has a PhD in literary studies from the University of Texas at Dallas, earned largely by writing about Bob Dylan.

Jon Lasser is a University Distinguished and Regents’ professor in the School Psychology Program at Texas State University. He teaches the Art of Bob Dylan in the Honors College and has presented and published on Dylan’s work, utilizing primary source material at the Bob Dylan Archive.

Marc A. Mamigonian is the Director of Academic Affairs of the National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR). He co-authored Annotations to James Joyce’s Ulysses (Oxford University Press, 2022; with John N. Turner and Sam Slote) and annotated editions of Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Alma Classics, 2014; with John N. Turner) and Ulysses (Alma Classics, 2015; with John N. Turner and Sam Slote).

Olivia Carter Mather is a scholar of American popular music at Chapman University. Her recent works spans race in country music scholarship (“Race and Country Music,” The Oxford Handbook of Country Music), Eagles and American regionalism (for American Music), and an interview U2 producer Daniel Lanois (in Echo: A Music-Centered Journal).

Mason Moreno is an undergraduate student at Texas State University, expected to graduate in May 2027, and majoring in history with an emphasis on studies in popular culture. He presented at World of Bob Dylan 2025 and is currently an archival assistant at The Wittliff Collections. He has also hosted three Dylan tribute shows in Central Texas.

Celia Rabinovitch was Director of the School of Art, University of Manitoba. She has taught at the University of Colorado at Denver, Syracuse University, Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Vancouver, California College of the Arts, and the San Francisco Art Institute. She also served as Program Director for Graphic Design, Fine Arts, Music, and Art History at UC Berkeley Extension.

Robert Reginio teaches modern literature at Alfred University. His book Bob Dylan Outside the Law: The Poetics of John Wesley Harding was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2025. He contributed to and co-edited (with David Polanski) a forthcoming collection of essays and interviews New Perspectives on Bob Dylan and the Blues (Intellect Books, 2027).

Mike Schneider has won awards for his poetry and writing. His collection Spring Mills (2023) was followed by his fourth chapbook “Many Hats” and second full-length collection Friday’s Dance (2025). In 2017, for Carnegie Mellon University’s Lifelong Learning program, he taught what he believes was Pittsburgh’s first course on Bob Dylan, repeated in 2018 and 2023.

Erica Zeitman has just finished her first year at the University of Texas at Austin, where she studies Government on a pre-law track focusing on energy and constitutional law. Her poetic influences range from Pope and Dryden to Whitman, Auden and Bob Dylan. She is drawn to Anne Carson and to the women who shaped American song — Billie Holiday, Nina Simone.

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Dylan Review Vol. 7.2, Fall/Winter 2025-2026 – Contributors

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Nicholas Birns teaches modern and contemporary literature at the School of Professional Studies, New York University. His recent books include The Literary Role of History in the Fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien (2024), and the co-authored Agatha Christie Under the Magnifying Glass (with Margaret Boe Birns, 2025).

Erin C. Callahan is a professor of English at San Jacinto College in Houston, Texas. She has published essays on the Star Wars, and Charles Schulz’s Peanuts. She is the co-editor with Court Carney of The Power and Politics of Bob Dylan’s Live Performances: Play a Song for Me (2023), and hosts the Infinity Goes Up on Trial podcast.

Alessandro Carrera is Moores Professor of Italian Studies at the University of Houston, Texas. He translated Chronicles, Tarantula, and The Philosophy of Modern Song into Italian, authored La voce di Bob Dylan (2001, 2011, 2021), and in 2025 with Carlo Feltrinelli, edited Bob Dylan, 64 Lyrics.

Charles O. Hartman has published eight books of poetry, including Downfall of the Straight Line (2024), as well as books on jazz and song and on computer poetry. His Free Verse (1981) is still in print, and Verse: An Introduction to Prosody came out in 2015. He is Poet in Residence at Connecticut College, and plays jazz guitar.

Jonathan Hodgers received his PhD in music from Trinity College Dublin, where he teaches in popular music. His core areas of interest are song lyrics, the music of the 50s and 60s, audiovisual aesthetics, and music in movies. His recent book, Dylan on Film, was published by Routledge in 2024.

Bill Lattanzi is a playwright, video editor, and writer. His essays have appeared in Los Angeles Review of Books and Cognoscenti. He is a past Hall Humanities Fellow at U. of Kansas, a Knight Fellow in Science Journalism at MIT, and holds a master’s degree in creative writing from Boston University.

Quentin Miller, Professor of English at Suffolk University, is retiring at the end of this year to pursue non-academic writing. He is working on two projects: a campus novel titled Paradise Misplaced and a book about American halls of fame.

Jason Miller is a Distinguished Professor and public scholar at NC State University whose work has been featured on ABC, NBC, CNN, BBC, NPR, and The Rachel Maddow Show. His fourth book, Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood: Nina Simone, Langston Hughes, and the Birth of Black Power is forthcoming this fall from the trade division of UNC Press.

Thomas G. Palaima is Robert M. Armstrong Professor of Classics at University of Texas, Austin and a MacArthur fellow. He has written over 500 commentaries, reviews, features, and poems. These have appeared in Times Higher Education, Michigan War Studies Review, Arion, The Texas Observer, the Los Angeles Times, and commondreams.org.

Stephen Rive is an independent scholar living in Toronto.

Gayle Wald is Professor of American Studies at George Washington University, where she teaches cultural theory, American cultural history and popular music. Her most recent book, This Is Rhythm: Ella Jenkins, Children’s Music, and the Long Civil Rights Movement was published by University of Chicago Press in 2025.

 

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Dylan Review Vol. 7.1, Spring/Summer 2025 – Contributors

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Alessandro Carrera is Moores Professor of Italian Studies and World Cultures and Literatures at the University of Houston, Texas. He has translated the songs and prose of Bob Dylan into Italian, including Chronicles, Volume One and Tarantula, and authored La voce di Bob Dylan.

 

Britt Eisnor is a writer and researcher. Britt graduated from Emerson College in 2019 with a BA in Visual Media Arts Production, and works in museums. She has spoken about Dylan to the Wall Street Journal and Definitely Dylan podcast, and posts about Dylan on Instagram.

 

Michael Gray is a critic, writer and public speaker. His book Song & Dance Man: The Art of Bob Dylan (1972), was the first critical study of Dylan’s work. The massive third edition Song & Dance Man III was first published in 1999. He has also authored Bob Dylan Encyclopedia (2006) and Hand Me My Travelin’ Shoes: In Search of Blind Willie McTell (2007).

 

Bill Lattanzi is a playwright, video editor, and writer. His essays have appeared in Los Angeles Review of Books and WBUR’s Cognoscenti, and he has presented on Bob Dylan and Sam Shepard. He is a past Hall Humanities Fellow at U. of Kansas, a Knight Fellow in Science Journalism at MIT, and holds a master’s degree in creative writing from Boston University.

 

Griffin Ondaatje is a writer and documentary filmmaker. His essay “Highway to the Sea” was published in BOB DYLAN: Mixing Up the Medicine. His books include The Mosquito Brothers and The Camel in the Sun. Currently he is writing Half Wild, a book of essays and interviews on Dylan’s music. He lives in Toronto with his family.

 

Thomas G. Palaima is Robert M. Armstrong Professor of Classics at University of Texas, Austin and a MacArthur fellow. He has written over 500 commentaries, reviews, features, and poems. These have appeared in the Times Higher Education, Michigan War Studies Review, Arion, The Texas Observer, the Los Angeles Times, and commondreams.org.

 

Craig Proctor has been published in literary journals including Blood & Aphorisms and Brick. He co-directed the documentary film Complete Unknown (2003), and co-wrote You Shoot Me in a Dream, a monograph on Harvey Keitel.

 

David Sheftman is a native New Yorker whose abiding loves are his wife and daughter, the literary arts, baseball, and folk music. He teaches English composition courses full-time at Cabrillo College in Aptos, CA, and outside of teaching enjoys singing and playing “A Hard Rains A-Gonna Fall” on acoustic guitar.

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Dylan Review Vol. 6.2, Fall/Winter 2024-2025 – Contributors

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Annie Burkhart is an instructor of Writing Studies at the University of Northern Colorado. She received her PhD in English from the University of Iowa in 2024. Annie has written about Dylan and the Band for Flagging Down the Double E’s and appeared on the podcast The Band: A History.

Erin C. Callahan is Professor of English at San Jacinto College in Houston, Texas. She has published on gender in the Star Wars Saga, Star Trek: The Next Generation, and Charles Schulz’s Peanuts and contributed an essay to 21st Century Dylan: Late and Timely.

Court Carney is Professor of History at Stephen F. Austin State University. He is the co-editor of a collection of essays on Bob Dylan’s setlists entitled The Politics and Power of Bob Dylan’s Live Performances: “Play a Song for Me,” published with Routledge later this year.

Barry J. Faulk is a Professor of English at Florida State University. His recent work includes an article on William Burroughs in the American Book Review (2020) and an essay on Burroughs, David Bowie, and Bob Dylan in Lit-Rock: Literary Capital in Popular Music (Bloomsbury, 2022).

Andrew Fehribach is studying for Masters in Applied Research at Radboud University, Netherlands. He presented research at the “Bob Dylan – Questions on Masculinity” symposium at the University of Southern Denmark. Andrew has a BA in History and German from Centre College, Kentucky.

Timothy Hampton is professor of Comparative Literature and French at the University of California, Berkeley, where he also directs the Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities. He writes widely on literature and culture. He is the author of Bob Dylan: How the Songs Work (Zone Books, 2019).

Graley Herren is Professor of English at Xavier University in Cincinnati. He is the author of books on Samuel Beckett, Don DeLillo, and Bob Dylan. He writes a newsletter on Dylan called Shadow Chasing and serves on the editorial board of the Dylan Review.

Jonathan Hodgers received his PhD in music from Trinity College Dublin, where he teaches in popular music. His core areas of interest are song lyrics, the music of the 50s and 60s, audiovisual aesthetics, and music in movies. His recent book, Dylan on Film, was published by Routledge in 2024.

Quentin Miller is Professor and chair of English at Suffolk University where he teaches contemporary American literature. He is the author or editor of more than a dozen books, including The Routledge Introduction to the American Novel (Routledge, 2024), and James Baldwin in Context (Cambridge UP, 2019).

Thomas Palaima is Robert M. Armstrong Professor of Classics at University of Texas, Austin and a MacArthur fellow. His reviews, book chapters, features, and poems have appeared in the Times Higher Education, Michigan War Studies Review, Arion, the Los Angeles Times, and commondreams.org.

Rebecca Slaman is a freelance writer and editor. She has a BA from Fordham University in English and Classics. Her writing specializes in fan communities on social media, particularly Twitter. She has presented at University of Tulsa and Florida International University.

Chuck Sweetman is senior editor for december magazine. His work has appeared in Verse Daily, River Styx, Poet Lore, Black Warrior Review, and Notre Dame Review. His chapbook of poems, Incorporated, won the 2007 Dream Horse Press Chapbook Prize.

Jack Walters is a frequent contributor to PopMatters. His book, Bruce Springsteen: Song by Song (Fonthill, 2023), takes a close look at each track on Springsteen’s twenty-one studio albums. He is currently writing a song-by-song book on Bob Dylan, covering 1962 to 1969.

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Dylan Review Vol. 6.1, Spring/Summer 2024 – CONTRIBUTORS

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Nora Bonner is a fiction writer, singer-songwriter, and college writing instructor from Detroit, Michigan. She teaches composition at Georgia State University, where she obtained her PhD in Creative Writing. Her stories have appeared in Third Coast, Redivider, and the Best American Non-Required Reading.

Andrea Cossu is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Social Research at the University of Trento, where he obtained his PhD in Sociology. He is the author of It Ain’t Me, Babe: Bob Dylan and the Performance of Authenticity.

Jason Grant is a designer and co founder of Inkahoots Design in Brisbane, Australia. He occasionally writes about design and culture.

Roberta Rakove has a Master’s degree in Public Health from the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health. Roberta developed a class on Bob Dylan for the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Northwestern University, and has been interviewed on The Dylantantes, Pod Dylan, and Songs of Experience: A Bob Dylan Podcast.

Bob Russell is a retired IT Manager. He is an admirer of rock, folk, and traditional country and bluegrass music, and a longtime listener to the music of Bob Dylan.

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Dylan Review Vol. 5.1, Spring/Summer 2023 – CONTRIBUTORS

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Owen Boynton works at Collegiate School in NYC. He earned a PhD in English from Cornell University in 2013, with a dissertation focusing on Victorian poetry and the experience of time.


Erin C. Callahan is Professor of English at San Jacinto College in Houston, Texas. She has published on gender in the Star Wars Saga, Star Trek: The Next Generation, and Charles Schulz’s Peanuts and contributed an essay to 21st Century Dylan: Late and Timely.


Court Carney is Professor of History at Stephen F. Austin State University. He is the co-editor of a collection of essays on Bob Dylan’s setlists entitled The Politics and Power of Bob Dylan’s Live Performances: “Play a Song for Me,” published with Routledge later this year.


Justin Hamm is the author of four collections of poetry – Drinking Guinness With the Dead, American Ephemeral, and Lessons in Ruin. A 2022 Woody Guthrie Poet, his work has appeared in Nimrod, Southern Indiana Review, and a host of other publications.


Christine Hand Jones is Assistant Professor of English at Dallas Baptist University, where she teaches writing, literature, and songwriting courses. She has a PhD in literary studies from the University of Texas at Dallas, earned largely by writing about Bob Dylan.


Graley Herren is Professor of English at Xavier University in Cincinnati. He is the author of books on Samuel Beckett, Don DeLillo, and Bob Dylan. He writes a newsletter on Dylan called Shadow Chasing and serves on the editorial board of the Dylan Review.


Harrison Hewitt is a writer from Canada. He’s been a Bob Dylan fan since he was a boy.


Matthew King is a freelance journalist and essayist based in New York. His writing on culture and technology has appeared in The Atlantic and the Boston Globe Magazine, among other publications. In a past life, he studied jazz and folk music as an aspiring saxophonist.


Jeffrey S. Lamp is Professor of New Testament and Instructor of Environmental Science at Oral Roberts University, Tulsa. His primary interests are in the ecotheology and Bob Dylan Studies. He was a translator and editor for the Modern English Version of the Bible.


Jon Lasser is University Distinguished Professor and Regents’ Professor in the School Psychology Program at Texas State University. He holds a doctorate in School Psychology from the University of Texas at Austin.


Harold Lepidus is the author of Friends and Other Strangers: Bob Dylan Examined. His writing has been referenced in Rolling Stone, Uncut, and American Songwriter, and he hosts The Boston Harold podcast.


Christopher Mitchell teaches composition and literature. He has written about Marshall McLuhan, Herman Melville, Nathanial Hawthorne, and Elvis Presley. In 2019 he spoke at the World of Bob Dylan about The Waste Land and “Desolation Row.”


Jim Salvucci is an English professor by training and taught a course on Dylan for many years. His writing is published in 21st-Century Dylan and The Politics and Power of Bob Dylan’s Live Performances: Play a Song for Me. He is also the founder of The Dylantantes.


Nathan Schmidt is currently pursuing a PhD in American literature at Indiana University, Bloomington. His work has appeared in the Walt Whitman Quarterly Review and the Indiana University blog Conversations in Science. He has played guitar since he was nine years old.


Evan Sennett a graduate student at Indiana University specializing in American literature. His interests include American Transcendentalism as well as twentieth century Kentucky authors Wendell Berry and Harlan Hubbard.


Rebecca Slaman is a freelance writer and editor. She has a BA from Fordham University in English and Classics. Her writing specializes in fan communities on social media, particularly Twitter. She has presented at University of Tulsa and Florida International University.


Stevan M. Weine is a psychiatrist, researcher, and author. He is Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Illinois College of Medicine. His most recent book is Best Minds: How Allen Ginsberg Made Revolutionary Poetry from Madness (Fordham University Press, 2023).


Bernard Wills is Professor of Humanities at Grenfell Campus Memorial University. He is a poet and scholar who has on Cohen, Blake, Davies as well as on Ancient, Medieval and Modern philosophy. He currently resides in Corner Brook Newfoundland and Labrador.

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Dylan Review Vol. 4.2, Fall/Winter 2022-2023 – CONTRIBUTORS

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Harriet Archer is a lecturer in early modern English literature at the University of St Andrews, where she teaches modules on the English Renaissance, Bob Dylan, and popular music, and is the author of Unperfect Histories: the Mirror for Magistrates, 1559-1610 (Oxford University Press, 2017).

 

David Bond graduated from Johnston College, the University of Redlands, in 1975, with a BA in Religion with a minor in Transpersonal Psychology. He attended Duke University Divinity School and graduated from West Virginia University with a Master of Social Work in 1979. He is a practicing psychotherapist and has been writing poetry for over forty years.

 

Nicholas Bornholt is a freelance writer, editor and a co-creator of gaslightrecords.com. He holds a BA and MRes in English from Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.

 

Jonathan Hodgers received his PhD in music from Trinity College Dublin, where he teaches in popular music. His core areas of interest are song lyrics, the music of the 50s and 60s, audiovisual aesthetics, and music in movies. Dylan and Cinema, his forthcoming monograph for Routledge, brings together these strands by examining Bob Dylan as a filmmaker.

 

James O’Brien is a writer and filmmaker. He holds a PhD in editorial studies and his dissertation focuses on Bob Dylan’s unpublished writings. Oxford University Press and others have issued his writings about Dylan’s work. OUP published his annotated bibliography of works about the director John Cassavetes.

 

Thomas Palaima is Robert M. Armstrong Professor of Classics at University of Texas, Austin and a MacArthur fellow. He has written over 500 commentaries, reviews, book chapters, features, and poems on what human beings do with their lives. These have appeared in the Times Higher Education, Michigan War Studies Review, Arion, Athenaeum Review, The Texas Observer, the Los Angeles Times, and commondreams.org.


Scott F. Parker is author of Being on the Oregon Coast: An Essay on Nature, Solitude, the Creation of Value, and the Art of Human Flourishing and A Way Home: Oregon Essays as well as editor of Conversations with Joan Didion and Conversations with Ken Kesey, both published by University Press of Mississippi. He teaches writing at Montana State University.

 

Robert Reginio teaches modern literature in the Division of English at Alfred University. He currently serves as the Hagar Professor of the Humanities at the University. This spring he will be working in the Bob Dylan Archive researching the composition of the songs that would make their way onto the album John Wesley Harding.

 

Christopher Rollason is author of numerous articles and papers on Bob Dylan, and of the book Read Books, Repeat Quotations: the Literary Bob Dylan (2021). He has presented papers at major Dylan conferences, including Caen, France (2005) and Tulsa (2019). Recently, he was plenary speaker at a conference on Dylan and popular culture, University of Jaén, Spain.

 

Richard F. Thomas is George Martin Lane Professor of Classics at Harvard University, where his teaching and research interests are focused on Hellenistic Greek and Roman literature, intertextuality, and the works of Bob Dylan. Books include Virgil and the Augustan Reception (Cambridge 2001), Bob Dylan’s Performance Artistry (Oral Tradition 22.1 (2007)), and Why Bob Dylan Matters (2017).

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Dylan Review Vol. 4.1, Spring/Summer 2022 – CONTRIBUTORS

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Mitch Blank is a music archaeologist and consultant archivist at the Bob Dylan Center, Tulsa Oklahoma. He is regarded as one of the pre-eminent collectors of Dylan memorabilia and artifacts, and is a longtime resident of Greenwich Village, New York City.

 

Ronald D. Cohen is Professor Emeritus of History at Indiana University, Northwest. He has received numerous awards including a Grammy nomination for The Best of Broadside liner notes in 2001. His books include Rainbow Quest: The Folk Music Revival and American Society, 1940–1970 (University of Massachusetts, 2002), Alan Lomax, Assistant in Charge: The Library of Congress Letters, 1935–1945 (2014) and Selling Folk Music: An Illustrated History (2017), both published by University Press of Mississippi.

 

Barry J. Faulk is a Professor of English at Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida. His recent work includes “A Matter of Electricity: William Burroughs and Rock Music” in the American Book Review (2020) and an essay on Burroughs, David Bowie, and Bob Dylan in Lit-Rock: Literary Capital in Popular Music, edited by Ryan Hibbett and forthcoming from Bloomsbury Press later this year.

 

Anne-Marie Mai is Professor of Literature and a chair of the Danish Institute for Advanced Study at The University of Southern Denmark. She nominated Bob Dylan for the Nobel Prize in Literature, which he won in 2016. She has published Bob Dylan the Poet (University Press of Southern Denmark, 2018), edited the anthology New Approaches to Bob Dylan (University Press of Southern Denmark, 2019), and contributed to The World of Bob Dylan (ed. Sean Latham, Cambridge University Press, 2021).

 

D. Quentin Miller is Professor and chair of English at Suffolk University in Boston where he teaches courses on contemporary American literature, including one on Dylan and the Beat generation. He is the author or editor of more than a dozen books, most recently Understanding John Edgar Wideman (UP of South Carolina, 2018), James Baldwin in Context (Cambridge UP, 2019), and The Compact Bedford Introduction to Literature (Palgrave/MacMillan, 2020). Forthcoming books include The Routledge Introduction to the American Novel and a new edition of the Bedford Introduction to Literature.

 

Walter Raubicheck is a Professor of English at Pace University in New York, where he teaches American Literature, film, and college composition. He is the co-author of Scripting Hitchcock (2011) and co-editor of Hitchcock’s Rereleased Films (1991), both with Walter Srebnick. He also edited Hitchcock and the Cold War (2019). He has published essays on British crime fiction authors including Arthur Conan Doyle, Dorothy Sayers, and G. K. Chesterton, as well as essays on American authors such as F. Scott Fitzgerald, T. S. Eliot, and Dashiell Hammett.

 

Bob Russell is a retired IT Manager. He is an admirer of traditional country and bluegrass music, and a longtime listener to the music of Bob Dylan.

 

David R. Shumway is Professor of English, and Literary and Cultural Studies, and the founding Director of the Humanities Center at Carnegie Mellon University. His most recent book is Rock Star: The Making of Musical Icons from Elvis to Springsteen (2014), and he has published numerous articles on popular music. Some of his other books include Michel Foucault (1989), Modern Love: Romance, Intimacy, and the Marriage Crisis (2003), and John Sayles (2012). He is currently editing The World of Leonard Cohen to be published by Cambridge University Press.

 

Rebecca Slaman is a freelance writer and editor. She has a BA from Fordham University in English and Classics. Her writing specializes in fan communities on social media, particularly Twitter. She has been cited as a Bob Dylan expert in speaking engagements at University of Tulsa and Florida International University.

 

Randy Turley is a retired Missouri teacher and attorney who now lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He earned a Bachelor’s of Science Degree in Secondary Education at the University of Arizona and a Juris Doctorate Degree from the University of Missouri, Columbia. He has been listening to Bob Dylan since 1966.

 

Karl Gustel Wärnberg is a PhD student in Philosophy at Leiden University in the Netherlands. He holds an MA in Intellectual History from Uppsala University, Sweden

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Dylan Review Vol. 3.2, Fall/Winter 2021-2022 – CONTRIBUTORS

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Nicholas Birns teaches modern and contemporary literature at the Center for Applied Liberal Arts, School of Professional Studies, New York University. His articles have appeared in Exemplaria, Angelaki, Victorian Studies, and MLQ. His latest book is The Hyperlocal in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Literary Space (Lexington, 2019).He teaches a Bob Dylan course regularly and contributed to Dylan At 80, coedited by Constantine Sandis and Gary Browning.

Mark DeStephano is Chairman and Professor of the Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures, and Director and Professor of the Asian Studies Program at Saint Peter’s University in Jersey City, New Jersey, U.S.A.  He earned his Bachelor’s degree in Spanish and Philosophy from Fordham University, four Master’s degrees in Theology from Regis College of the University of Toronto, and his Master’s and doctoral degrees in Romance Languages and Literatures from Harvard University.  His research focuses on medieval European literatures and on issues of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and identity in Asian and Latino cultures.

Christine Hand Jones is an Assistant Professor of English at Dallas Baptist University, where she teaches Writing, Literature, and Songwriting courses. She is interested in the intersections of music and literature, and her recent work has focused on Bob Dylan, The Band, and Paul Simon. She has a PhD in literary studies from the University of Texas at Dallas, which she earned largely by writing about the music and lyrics of Bob Dylan. When she’s not in the classroom, she performs her original soulful folk-rock music around the Dallas/Fort Worth area. Her most recent album, The Book of the World, features sweet, bluesey vocals over vintage folk-rock instrumentation. The songs celebrate the everyday inspiration found in coffee cups and bluebonnet fields, imagining all creation as a book of revelation.

Graley Herren is a Professor of English at Xavier University in Cincinnati. He is the author of Dreams and Dialogues in Dylan’s Time Out of Mind (Anthem Press, 2021), The Self-Reflexive Art of Don DeLillo (Bloomsbury, 2019), Samuel Beckett’s Plays on Film and Television (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), and numerous articles on various modern artists. He also edited five volumes of the Text & Presentation book series for McFarland, and he is an executive board member for the annual Comparative Drama Conference.

Dave Junker is Associate Professor of Instruction and Director of the Honors Program in the Moody College of Communications at the University of Texas at Austin. He earned his master’s degree in Afro-American Studies and his doctorate in English from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is also an active musician and an independent recording artist.

Thomas M. Kitts, Professor of English at St. John’s University, is the author of books on Ray Davies, John Fogerty, and, forthcoming, Richie Furay. With Nick Baxter-Moore, he edited the Routledge Companion to Popular Music and Humor, and with Gary Burns, he edits Popular Music and Society and Rock Music Studies. He also chairs the music area for the Popular Culture Association.

Thomas G. Palaima, Robert M. Armstrong Professor of Classics at University of Texas, Austin and a MacArthur fellow, has long thought and taught about evil, suffering, and injustice in human societies, ancient and modern. In 1963-’68, Bob Dylan and James Brown changed his life. He has written over five hundred commentaries, reviews, book chapters, feature pieces, and poems on what human beings do with their lives. These have appeared in such venues as the Times Higher Education, Michigan War Studies Review, Arion, Athenaeum Review, The Texas Observer, the Los Angeles Times, and commondreams.org.

Christopher Rollason: M.A. in English, Trinity College, Cambridge. Doctorate in English, University of York. Author of numerous published articles, lectures and conference papers on Bob Dylan, and of the book Read Books, Repeat Quotations: The Literary Bob Dylan (2021). Attended international Dylan conferences held in Caen (France), 2005 and Tulsa (Oklahoma), 2019.

Nathan Schmidt is currently pursuing a PhD in American literature at Indiana University, Bloomington. His work has appeared in the Walt Whitman Quarterly Review and the Indiana University blog Conversations in Science, and he is a contributing editor for the website Gamers with Glasses. Dylan and the Beats originally inspired him to pursue a career in English. He has played the guitar since he was nine years old.

​​Evan Sennett is a graduate student at Indiana University specializing in American literature. His interests include American Transcendentalism as well as twentieth century Kentucky authors like Wendell Berry and Harlan Hubbard. He also has a background in filmmaking. His various projects have screened in over 100 film festivals around the world.

Christopher Star is professor of classics at Middlebury College. His most recent book is Apocalypse and Golden Age: The End of the World in Greek and Roman Thought (Johns Hopkins University Press 2021).

Joe Whang is an artist and illustrator born in Seoul, Korea. He has a BFA in Illustration and an AAS degree in Graphic Design from Parsons School of Design. His paintings and illustrations have gained recognition from such prestigious organizations as the World Illustration Awards in the U.K., Applied Arts in Canada, American Illustration, 3×3 Magazine, Creative Quarterly, and the Society of Illustrators New York. His work has been shown in exhibitions in the U.K., South Korea, and the Philippines, and he is currently a member artist at b.j. spoke gallery in Huntington, NY.

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Dylan Review Vol. 3.1, Summer 2021- CONTRIBUTORS

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Alessandro Carrera is Moores Professor of Italian Studies and World Cultures and Literatures at the University of Houston, Texas. He has published extensively in the fields of Continental Philosophy, Italian and Comparative Literature, Art, Cinema, and Music (classical and popular). He is the author of La voce di Bob Dylan (Milan: Feltrinelli, 2001, 2011, 2021) and three other short books on Dylan. He has translated the songs and prose of Bob Dylan into Italian, all published by Feltrinelli: Chronicles Vol. 1 (2005), Tarantula (2007), Lyrics in various annotated editions, the most recent in three volumes: Lyrics 1961-1968, Lyrics 1969-1982, Lyrics 1983-2020 (published in 2021). 

Sarah Gates is the Craig Professor of English at St. Lawrence University, where she teaches British literature of all periods, poetry, and songwriting.  She has published on Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Tennyson, Joni Mitchell, and most recently, Louise Erdrich.  She is also a musician with the local indie-rock band Bee Children.

Michael Gray is an independent scholar who pioneered the serious study of Dylan’s work with Song & Dance Man: The Art of Bob Dylan, 1972. His books include the massively updated Song & Dance Man III(1999), The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia(2006), Hand Me My Travelin’ Shoes: In Search Of Blind Willie McTell (2007), and Outtakes On Bob Dylan: Selected Writings 1967-2021. He has delivered guest lectures in Europe and North America, including at Stanford, California and Bath Literature Festival. His website is www.michaelgray.net

Timothy Hampton is professor of Comparative Literature and French at the University of California, Berkeley, where he also directs the Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities. He has written widely on literature and culture, across several languages and centuries.  He is the author of Bob Dylan: How the Songs Work (Zone Books, 2019). A recent article is “Bob Dylan in the Country: Rock Domesticity and Pastoral Song” (Representations, 152, fall 2020). A new study, Cheerfulness: A Literary and Cultural History will be published in 2022 by Zone Books.  He writes about literature, music, and education at www.timothyhampton.org.

John Hughes‘s writings on Dylan include Invisible Now: Bob Dylan in the 1960s (Taylor & Francis, 2013). He is Professor of Nineteenth-Century Literature at the University of Gloucestershire and has published widely on nineteenth and twentieth-century literature and philosophy, particularly Thomas Hardy and William Wordsworth. 

Jeffrey S. Lamp is Professor of New Testament and Instructor of Environmental Science at Oral Roberts University, Tulsa, Oklahoma. His primary research and publishing interests are in the field of ecotheology. He has authored five books and co-edited one. He was a translator and editor for the Modern English Version of the Bible (Passio/Charisma House). He is a frequent presenter at academic conferences, has published articles in several journals, dictionaries, and volumes of collected essays, and is the editor of Spiritus: ORU Journal of Theology.

Michele Ulisse Lipparini, born in Milano where he’s based, is an independent scholar who started listening to Bob Dylan in 1988 at age 16. Digging into Dylan’s songs pushed him into learning English, which led him to work as a translator and eventually to collaborate for a few years with Delfina Vezzoli, Italian translator of Don DeLillo’s masterpiece Underworld. In addition to completing Vezzoli’s translation of John Edgar Wideman’s Brothers and Keepers, Lipparini has translated graphic novels and published articles about Bob Dylan in magazines such as Isis, Buscadero and on various websites, and contributed consistently to Olof Bjorner’s website, www.bjorner.com. He also held a conference about the Nobel Laureate as part of the Sant’Arcangelo di Romagna Poetry Festival in 2015. He has attended 170 Bob Dylan concerts all over the world.

Anne Marie Mai is professor of literature and a chair of DIAS at The University of Southern Denmark. She has published more than 200 articles, book chapters and monographs. She nominated Bob Dylan for the Nobel Prize, which he won in 2016. She has published Bob Dylan. The Poet (University Press of Southern Denmark, 2018, German translation will be published 2021), she edited the anthology New Approaches to Bob Dylan (University Press of Southern Denmark, 2019) and contributed to The World of Bob Dylan (ed. Sean Latham, Cambridge University Press, 2021).

Andrew Muir current commitments include teaching language and literature at The Leys School, Cambridge, UK and delivering Shakespeare and Dylan talks at a variety of conferences. Dylan publications: Razor’s Edge (2001), One More Night (21013), Troubadour (2003). An examination of historical and contemporary outdoor Shakespeare performances: Shakespeare in Cambridge followed, in 2015. This led to a comparative study, Bob Dylan and William Shakespeare: The True Performing of It, (2nd edition 2021).

Jacqueline Osherow is the author of eight collections of poetry, most recently My Lookalike at the Krishna Temple (LSU Press, 2019). She’s received grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, the NEA, the Ingram Merrill Foundation and the Witter Bynner Prize. Her poems have appeared in many magazines, journals and anthologies, including The New Yorker, The Paris Review, American Poetry Review, the Wadsworth Anthology of Poetry, Best American Poetry, The Norton Anthology of Jewish American Literature, The Penguin Book of the Sonnet, Twentieth Century American Poetry, and The Making of a Poem. She’s Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Utah. 

Allesandro Portelli has taught American Literature in the universities of Rome “La Sapienza” and Siena. He has served as advisor on democratic historical memory to the Mayor of Rome and founded the Circolo Gianni Bosio for the critical study and historical presence of people’s culture, folk music, and oral history. He is the author of many books on literature, popular culture, working-class history, including The Order Has Been Carried Out; They Say in Harlan Dean County; The Death of Luigi Trastulli. Form and Meaning in Oral History.

Christopher Rollason, M.A. in English, Trinity College, Cambridge. Doctorate in English, University of York. Author of numerous published articles, lectures and conference papers on Bob Dylan. Attended international Dylan conferences held in Caen (France), 2005 and Tulsa (Oklahoma), 2019.

Jim Salvucci, since receiving his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto, has served as an English professor, dean, and vice president at several institutions of higher education. For many years he taught an advanced course in Bob Dylan studies, and he continues to blog, present, and publish on Bob Dylan. Currently he lives in Newburgh, NY, and serves as a management consultant to nonprofits and other mission-driven organizations. He can be found online at jimsalvucci.com.

John H. Serembus, PhD., is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Widener University. In his forty-plus years in the classroom, he has taught a wide variety of courses, but mainly those in Logic (both formal and informal), Critical Thinking, Ethics, and Values.

David Thurmaier is Associate Professor of Music Theory and Chair of the Music Studies Division at the University of Missouri – Kansas City Conservatory. His research focuses on the music of Charles Ives, as well as the Beatles. He has published book chapters on George Harrison’s connections to popular music, John Lennon’s political music, and has a forthcoming chapter on Paul McCartney’s use of pastiche. In 2019, he presented a paper examining the musical relationship between Harrison and Bob Dylan at the “World of Bob Dylan” conference in Tulsa. He also co-hosts two podcasts: “I’ve Got a Beatles Podcast,” and “Hearing the Pulitzers.”

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