Joe Lockard is associate professor of English, specializing in 19th-century American literature, prison literature, and translation economies.

Rosemarie Dombrowski is the inaugural Poet Laureate of Phoenix, AZ, the founding director of Revisionary Arts, and the founding editor of rinky dink press, The Revolution (Relaunch), and ISSUED: stories of service.

Holbo studies American literature from the age of sentiment to the modernist era.

Rebecca Soares' research interests include 19th-century British and American literature, spiritualism, artistic and literary states of mind, transatlantic and global literature of the 19th and 20th centuries.

Olson holds a doctorate in English studies from ASU's Department of English. She has been an instructor in ASU's Writing Programs since 1996, focusing on First-Year Composition.

Bert Bender taught American literature at ASU from 1971 to 2003. He had a parallel career as a commercial fisherman in Alaska's Cook Inlet from 1963-1992.