About the Author

William S. Haney II, a University of California, Davis, Ph.D., is Professor of English and has taught at the University of Maryland, the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany, and Eastern Mediterranean University, North Cyprus. His books and edited collections focus on contemporary British and American literature and culture, often from a consciousness studies perspective. They include Humanism and the Humanities in the Twenty-first Century (Bucknell, 2002), co-edited with Peter Malekin. He is working on two book projects: Sacred Theater (co-authored), and Cybercultures, Cyborgs, and Consciousness.