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Editor

Jonathan Freedman
mqr@umich.edu

Jonathan Freedman is a professor of English and American Studies as well as a faculty associate in the Frankel Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Michigan.  That is to say, he is interested in many things—and goes to too many meetings.  Author of three books—Professions of Taste: Henry James, British Aestheticism and Commodity Culture (Stanford, 1991), The Temple of Culture: Assimilation, Aggression, and the Making of Literary Anglo-America (Oxford, 2000), and Klezmer America (Columbia, 2008), he’s recently been writing essays on realist fiction and economics and working on a book about Jews and decadence.

 

Managing Editor

Vicki Lawrence
mqr@umich.edu
734-764-9265

Vicki Lawrence has many years of experience in journal management and in writing and editing for publications in science, health, medicine, and the arts and humanities. She has an MFA in writing and literature from Bennington College and also writes fiction.  

 

Associate Editor

Keith Taylor
mqr@umich.edu

Keith Taylor coordinates the undergraduate creative writing program at the University of Michigan and directs the Bear River Writers’ Conference. He has published his poetry and criticism widely in this country and in Europe, including in The Southern Review, The Iowa Review, The Boston Review, The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune, Hanging Loose, and, of course, Michigan Quarterly Review. Of several books, the most recent is If the World Becomes So Bright (Wayne State University Press, 2009).

 

Blog Editor

Ashley David
mqr@umich.edu

Ashley David is a doctoral student at the University of Georgia. Her poems and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in Alimentum, Center, Greensboro Review, Hanging Loose, Michigan Quarterly Review, Mid-American Review, The Offending Adam, Southern Review, Verse, and Women’s Studies Quarterly. Op-ed features on education, the environment, and social justice have appeared in The Flagpole, and scholarship on Toni Cade Bambara’s The Salt Eaters is forthcoming in several anthologies. She is the editor-in-chief of Mandala Journal.

 

Contributing Editors

Charles Baxter 

Philip Levine 

 

Editorial Board

Ruth Behar

Sara Blair

Peter Ho Davies

Geoff Eley

Tom Fricke

Linda Gregerson

Don Herzog

Peggy McCracken

 

Assistant Editors

Elizabeth Goodenough
Khaled Mattawa
Tish O’Dowd
Alan Wald
Gillian White

 

Interns

Gina Balibrera

Mary Daniel

Monique Daviau

Rachel Farrell

Benjamin Landry

Amielle Major

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Michigan Quarterly Review is published with financial support from the Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies at the University of Michigan.

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