holds the rank of University Professor of English at Pittsburg State University where she has taught since 1997. She is the author of Feminist Intertextuality Through Bluebeard Studies (2001) Bluebeard: A Reader’s Guide to the English Tradition (2009), A Case Study of Film Adaptations of J. M. Barrie’s Peter Pan Story (2016), and Filming the Children’s Book: Adapting Metafiction (2019); and co-editor of Where is Adaptation? Mapping Cultures, Texts, and Contexts (2018) and The Palgrave Handbook of Children’s Film and Television (2019). She has published more than twenty literacy fiction readers for children and young adults for Heinemann Education, and two non-fiction titles for K-12 students. In 2012 she was a visiting Fellow at Massey University in New Zealand (her alma mater), and in 2014 she spent a semester in Turku, Finland as a Fulbright Scholar.
Julie Allison, Ph.D. is University Professor in the Department of Psychology and Counseling at Pittsburg State University (PSU), where she has worked since 1991. She is co-author of Rape: The Misunderstood Crime (1993) with Lawrence S. Wrightsman and Gender-based violence: Theory, research, activism (2007) with Chris Kilmartin. In her communities, she has worked as an advocate for victims and survivors of gender-related crimes, co-facilitator of a batterer’s intervention program, and director of the Office of Violence Response and Prevention at PSU. She directs the undergraduate concentrations in psychology related to the law and the military.
A former janitor, factory worker, clerk, marksmanship training unit member, and tank commander, Dr. Daley earned his graduate degrees with financial help from the GI Bill and a supportive spouse. Since 1994, He has taught courses in nineteenth century American history and modern military history at Pittsburg State University, where he also served as the Department of History's chairperson from 2001 to 2010. Doctrinal development—especially of mechanized and aerial warfare—pedagogy, and higher education policy have attracted most of his attention as a researcher although his course offerings cover a broader range. He is currently editing a newly found set of World War II letters, examining lower division history texts for presentist bias, and studying the counterinsurgency tactics of Lieutenant General Sir Aylmer L. Haldane. His articles and reviews appear in The Journal of Military History, Southern Historical Review, Civil War History, Thought and Action, Global War Studies, Michigan Historical Review, Armor, and Gulf Coast Historical Review. While serving on the University Press of Kansas Editorial Board in 2000, he joined the Quarterly's Board of Editors at the invitation of then Editor-in-Chief Dr. James B.M. Schick, a fellow historian. The journal's eclectic coverage attracted him most, as it provided a window on fields outside of his own, and he continues to savor the interdisiplinary adventure it provides.
Sara DeCaro is the Curator of Special Collections and University Archivist at Pittsburg State University. She has bachelor's degrees in history and vocal music from Wichita State University and a Master of Library Science and Archives Studies Certificate from Emporia State University. She has also worked in archives and special collections for a decade and has held positions at the Kansas Historical Society, Baker University, and the Missouri Valley Special Collections at the Kansas City Public Library.
is the chair of the math department at Pittsburg State University. He lives on a small farm in a rural setting outside of Pittsburg with his wife and five children. Tim attended schools in the area and graduated from PSU. He received a PhD in analytic number theory from Oklahoma State University. Most of Dr. Flood’s spare time is spent with family and he especially enjoys spending time with the family outdoors on the farm or attending his children’s various events.
is an assistant professor of English at Pittsburg State University. She’s had both poetry and fiction published in magazines like Prick of the Spindle, The MacGuffin, The Little Balkans Review, Room Magazine, Grass Limb, The Knicknackery, Midwest Quarterly, Kansas Time + Place, 150 Kansas Poets, and in a Kansas Notable Book poetry collection To the Stars Through Difficulties. Martin has taught creative writing at the University of Iowa, Pittsburg State University, and Independence Community College. She has worked as a reader for both The Iowa Reviewand NPR. She is a founding member of the Astra Arts Festival in Independence, KS and was director of the visiting writers’ series at ICC. Martin has been awarded for her work in The Cincinnati Review and Kansas Voices. She is a graduate of Iowa Writer’s Workshop where she was named a Truman Capote Fellow and received the Clark Fischer Ansley Award for Excellence in Fiction.
has been at Pittsburg State University since 1997. He teaches and researches mainly in the areas of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century British literature, but has developed an enthusiasm for such twentieth-century authors as Waugh, Mitford, Amis, and Larkin.
Sang-Heui Lee is a Professor of Management at Kelce College of Business at Pittsburg State University. He teaches courses in Supply Chain, Operations, and Quality Management. His research interests focus on international logistics, open-source enterprise information systems, and institutional environmental performance. He is the Editor of the Journal of Managerial Issues (JMI) and a Certified Supply Chain Professional (CSCP). Sang travels to African countries for research, teaching, and consulting. Dr. Lee holds a B.E. in Computer Science from Incheon National University and an M.A. in Computer Science from the University of Colorado Denver, as well as a Ph.D. in Operations Management from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Before joining academia, he worked as a Software Engineer for IT companies, including MCI WorldCom and Eastman Kodak Company. Sang is a lay speaker of the United Methodist Church, an amateur saxophonist, and a motorcycle rider. He is a husband and father of four.
Judy B. Smetana is an assistant professor of Human Resource Development at Pittsburg State University. She received her PhD from Colorado State University in Human Resource Studies and Education. Before joining PSU, Dr. Smetana worked in human resources and taught as an adjunct for University of Colorado-Denver and Fielding Graduate University. Dr. Smetana has a personal passion for writing. As a student, she worked for an English language newspaper in Vienna, Austria and treasured her time as a journalist. Later, she worked as a research assistant for the International Atomic Energy Agency and spent much of her time researching and writing. Needless to say, she truly loves reading and writing. Aside from having scholarly publications she aspires to write a novel someday. In her free time, Judy enjoys hiking with her spouse George and border collie Izzy, cooking and savoring meals with family, or curling up with a good book.
was born in Istanbul, Turkey. He was educated in the public schools of Istanbul, and was awarded a Bachelor of Science with major in Physics from the University of Istanbul in 1991. He entered the graduate school of Case Western Reserve University in 1993 and completed the requirements for the Master’s degree in Physics in December 1994. After that, he entered the graduate school of Illinois Institute of Technology (ITT) in 1995 and was awarded the PhD in Physics in 2000. After a couple of post-doctoral research positions at SUNY-Binghampton and Kansas State University, he started teaching Physics at Pittsburg State University in 2004. He became a US citizen in 2011. He enjoys reading, teaching, experimenting, and deep thinking. In his spare time, he likes to experience nature via walking, hiking, and observing. He has many layers of thinking, permissions and compartmentalization. He has a photographic memory for faces which helps a lot in his teaching profession. His main area of research encompasses experimental condensed matter physics and materials science. Specifically, he works in nanotechnology, graphene and magnetic sensors area.
Assistant Poetry Editor
Morgan has an MFA in Poetry from Washington University in St. Louis and a Master of Library Science from Emporia State in Kansas. She is a Cataloging Librarian at Pittsburg State University.