Contributors for Volume One, Issue Four
Aaron Belz
Aaron Belz lives in St. Louis where he curates Readings @ The Contemporary (formerly Readings @ City Museum) and teaches high school English. His poems have appeared in Boston Review, Fine Madness, Fence, and many other places.
Randy Boyagoda
Randy Boyagoda is a Ph.D. candidate in English at Boston University who writes frequently on literature, religion, and culture. His academic articles, literary essays, reviews, opinion pieces and fiction have appeared in publications such as First Things, Crisis, The Human Life Review, Religion and Literature, The American Enterprise, Mississippi Quarterly, The Dalhousie Review, World and I, Descant, Queen Street Quarterly, and Postcolonial Text.
Scott Derrickson
Scott Derrickson is the writer (with Paul Harris Boardman) of Urban Legends: Final Cut, as well as Hellraiser: Inferno and the upcoming The Exorcism of Annaliese Michele (starring Laura Linney and Tom Wilkinson), both of which he also directed. He is a graduate of the USC School of Cinema and Television.
Jack D. Elliott, Jr.
Jack D. Elliott, Jr. is a historical archaeologist with the Mississippi Department of Archives and History. With Mary Ann Wells he is co-author of Cotton Gin Port: A Frontier Settlement on the Upper Tombigbee (Quail Ridge Press, 2003). Mr. Elliott also operates the Radical Preservation website.
John Fea
John Fea is Assistant Professor of History at Messiah College. He specializes in early American History and is currently writing a book on the relationship between Protestantism and the Enlightenment in Fenwick's Colony--the first permanent English settlement in the Delaware Valley.
Kevin J. Jones
Kevin Jones reviews political philosophy, theology, and current events with a bit of literary commentary thrown in at Philokalia Republic.
John Knauss
John Knauss is an MFA student in Acting at the University of Delaware's Professional Theatre Training Program. He studied art and began working on set design and then acting at Wheaton College. He has performed and directed many plays and was most recently a member of the Warehouse Theatre's Journeyman company in Greenville, South Carolina.
Scott Kolbo
Scott Kolbo is Assistant Professor of Art. He teaches printmaking, drawing, digital imaging, sesign, and contemporary art history at Whitworth College in Spokane, Washington. Kolbo's print, "Naaman Dirty," was named Best of Show in Printmaking at the 28th annual Bradley National Print and Drawing Exhibition in 2002. His work reflects his belief "that despite our best efforts to look important, rational, and dignified, we all make fools of ourselves in the end. Human nature is corrupted by folly, and even our best intentions are subverted by our mixed motivations."
Lynda Rutledge
A professional writer and journalist, Lynda Rutledge has published book-length work (as Lynda Rutledge Stephenson), including Give Us A Child (HarperCollins/Zondervan, 1992), the Complete Idiot's Guide on Writing Your Family History (Macmillan/Alpha, 2000), and a two-volume History of the San Diego Zoo and Wild Animal Park (ZSSD, 2005). Her articles have appeared in a variety of magazines and newspapers including the Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune Magazine, Memphis Commercial-Appeal, Houston Post, San Diego Union-Tribune and Poets and Writers. Excerpted in this issue of The New Pantagruel, Brave New Wanda is her first novel.
James V. Schall, S. J.
Rev. James V. Schall, S.J., is a professor of government at Georgetown University. He is a columnist for Crisis magazine and the author of numerous books and articles, the latest of which include Roman Catholic Political Philosophy (Lexington, 2004), The Unseriousness of Human Affairs: Teaching, Writing, Playing, Believing, Lecturing, Philosophizing, Singing, Dancing. (ISI, 2001), Reason, Revelation, and Human Affairs: Selected Writings of James V. Schall (Lexington, 2001), and Schall on Chesterton: Timely Essays on Timeless Paradoxes. (Catholic University, 2000).
Mark Stevick
Mark Stevick teaches creative writing at Gordon College and has written and published both poetry and plays. In The Language of Objects, poems converse across the page with a correlated set of still-lives and landscapes by the painter George Wingate. His poems have appeared in literary journals such as Christianity & Literature, Christianity and the Arts, Mars Hill Review, and Poet's Market. He has written or adapted twelve plays, including several which continue to run in Salem, Massachusetts, and several which have toured with Gordon students.
Amy Unsworth
Amy Unsworth is a Contributing Editor for Poems Niederngasse. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in various publications, including The Hogtown Creek Review, Miller's Pond, The Briar Cliff Review, and in The Alsop Review Anthology. Her CD In the Breaking Light was released in September 2004 as part of the Alsop Review Press Spoken Word series. A graduate of Eastern Michigan University's English Department, she lives in Manhattan, Kansas with her husband and three sons.
Eric Voegelin (1901-1985)
Eric Voegelin's work has had a substantial impact on the thinking of some of The New Pantagruel's founding editors. Voegelin was a philosopher of politics, history and consciousness. He taught political theory and sociology at the University of Vienna from 1928 until reactions to two of his books criticizing Naziism and racism forced him to flee. He then taught at several American universities and settled at Louisiana State University's Department of Government in 1942, becoming a US citizen in 1944. In 1958 he took Max Weber's former chair in political science at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitüt in Munich where he founded the Institut für Politische Wissenschaft. In 1969 he joined Stanford University's Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace where he worked until his death.