Mike Witcombe is a Ph.D. candidate in the Parkes Centre for Jewish/Non-Jewish Relations at the University of Southampton. His current research explores depictions of sex in the novels of Philip Roth, using them as a platform to discuss issues of ethnicity, influence, and masculinity in his work. He has additional research interests in psychoanalysis and baseball fiction.
Marjorie Worthington is an associate professor of English at Eastern Illinois University, specializing in contemporary American literature. Her work has appeared in journals such as Critique, Studies in the Novel, LIT: Literature, Interpretation, Theory, and Twentieth-Century Literature. She is currently at work on a book about self-reflexivity in late twentieth- and twenty-first-century fiction.
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