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Scott Dimovitz received his Ph.D. in modern and postmodern literature from NYU, and he has taught writing and contemporary literature for many years at NYU and Regis University in Denver, CO, where he currently is an English professor. His short story, “Vestigial Tales,” was a recent finalist for the Gival Press Short Story Award, and he has twice won the Bennett Harris Humorous Writing Award. His monograph, *Angela Carter: Surrealist, Psychologist, Moral Pornographer*, is available from Routledge. He has written extensively on writers such as David Mitchell, Alison Bechdel, and Paul Auster, and he has published dozens of articles in journals such as Modern Fiction Studies, C21: Journal of 21st Century Writings, and Contemporary Women's Wri ...more

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