Alfred Bendixen has taught at Princeton University, Texas A&M University, California State University - Los Angeles, and Barnard College. He is best known as the founder and Executive Director of the American Literature Association. His recent work focuses on the development of genre in a democratic society and includes The Cambridge Companion to American Travel Writing, co-edited with Judith Hamera (2009); A Companion to the American Novel (Blackwell 2012); The Cambridge History of American Poetry, co-edited with Stephen Burt (2015); and The Centrality of Crime Fiction in American Literary Culture, co-edited with Olivia Carr Edenfield (Routledge 2017). James Nagel is the Eidson Distinguished Professor of American Literature Emeritus at the University of Georgia. From 2012 to 2018 he served as Resident Scholar at Dartmouth College. Early in his career he founded the scholarly journal Studies in American Fiction and the widely influential series Critical Essays on American Literature. Among his 24 books are Stephen Crane and Literary Impressionism, Hemingway in Love and War (which was made into a Hollywood film directed by Lord Richard Attenborough), The Contemporary American Short-Story Cycle, and Race and Culture in New Orleans Stories. He has published some 80 articles in the field, and he has lectured on American literature in 17 countries.
The Nineteenth Century
The Emergence and Development of the American Short Story
Poe and the American Short Story
A Guide to Melville's "Bartleby, the Scrivener"
Towards History and Beyond: Hawthorne and the American Short Story
Charles W. Chesnutt And the Fictions of a "New" America Mark Twain and the American Comic Short Story
New England Local-Color Literature: A Colonial Formation
Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Feminist Tradition of the American Short Story
The Short Stories of Edith Wharton
The Transition into the New Century
The Short Stories of Stephen Crane Kate Chopin Frank Norris and Jack London
From "Water Drops" to General Strikes: Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Short Fiction and Social Change
The Twentieth Century
The Twentieth Century: A Period of Innovation and Continuity
The Hemingway Story
William Faulkner's Short Stories
Katherine Anne Porter
Eudora Welty and the Short Story: Theory and Practice
The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Structure, Narrative Technique, Style
"The Look of the World": Richard Wright in Perspective
Small Planets: The Short Fiction of Saul Bellow
John Updike
Raymond Carver in the 21st Century
Multi-Ethnic Female Identity and Denise Chávez's
The Last of the Menu Girls Expansive Considerations
Landscape as Haven in American Women's Short Stories
The American Ghost Story
The Detective Story
The Asian American Short Story
The Jewish-American Story
The Multiethnic American Short Story
"Should I Stay or Should I Go?": American Restlessness and the Short Story Cycle
