Ludic Pleasures

Cristanne Miller is Distinguished Professor and Edward H. Butler Professor of English Emerita at the University at Buffalo, SUNY. She is the author of Reading In Time: Emily Dickinson in the Nineteenth Century. Claire Tranchino is a Presidential Fellow at the University at Buffalo, SUNY, completing a PhD in English. Her research examines the construction of gender and race in contemporary American poetry through psychoanalytic and aesthetic theories. Aaron VanSteinberg is also a PhD candidate in English at the University at Buffalo, SUNY. His research charts the relationships between race, professionalism, and labor in postwar North American poetry. Evie Shockley is Zora Neale Hurston Distinguished Professor of English at Rutgers University.