Field Language

Julia Spicher Kasdorf is Professor of English and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Penn State University. She is the author of The Body and the Book: Writing from a Mennonite Life. Essays and Poems and coauthor of Shale Play: Poems and Photographs from the Fracking Fields, both published by Penn State University Press.Christopher Reed is an art historian and Distinguished Professor of English and Visual Culture at Penn State University. He has taught and published on a wide variety of topics at the intersection of art and literature from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century. His previous curatorial collaborations were the exhibitions A Room of Their Own: The Bloomsbury Artists in American Collections; Forging Alliances; and JapanAmerica: Points of Contact, 1876-1970.Joyce Henri Robinson is Assistant Director at the Palmer Museum of Art and Affiliate Associate Professor in the Department of Art History at Penn State University. She has authored catalogues and curated numerous exhibitions in the fields of contemporary art, twentieth-century American art, and photography.