Laura Eldred, Editor in Chief

Laura G. Eldred is assistant professor of English at LVC, where she teaches classes in literature, composition, and film. She specializes in the intersections between contemporary Irish literature and the horror genre, and has published an article on Patrick McCabe in The New Hibernia Review and chapters on Martin McDonagh in Martin McDonagh: A Casebook and The Theatre of Martin McDonagh: A World of Savage Stories. Currently, she is working on a manuscript entitled A Brutalized Culture: The Horror Genre in Contemporary Irish Literature.

J. Gabriel Scala, Founder and Poetry Editor

Gabriel Scala founded VHR in 2009 while an Assistant Professor in the English Department at LVC. She holds an MFA in Poetry from Bowling Green State University and a PhD in English from the University of Mississippi. Scala has published two collections of poetry and numerous articles in both scholarly and creative journals and has served as Managing Editor of Mid-American Review, Assistant Editor of The Yalobusha Review and Co-Editor of Tapestry.

Anthony Gorick, Poetry Editor

Anthony Gorick is majoring in English with a concentration in communications. He enjoys journalism and creative writing. Anthony has won the Hershey Entertainment and Resorts Higher Education Scholarship two years in a row and the Hitachi Medical Systems – Robert A. Schlueter Memorial Scholarship for his essays. He hopes to pursue a career that allows interaction with other individuals and also gives him opportunities to write creative fiction. Anthony is also an aspiring photographer and desires to publish a photography journal and work with that artistic medium as well. Later in his life he hopes to create a writing organization that focuses on cultivating creative writing in students at a young age

Robert Valgenti, Religion and Philosophy Editor

Robert T. Valgenti is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Lebanon Valley College.  He has studied at the College of the Holy Cross, Oxford University, Università di Torino, Fairleigh Dickinson University, and DePaul University (Ph.D. 2007).   His research interests include 19th and 20th Century Continental philosophy, hermeneutics, contemporary Italian philosophy, and the philosophy of food.  He is the translator of several essays by Italian philosophers into English, and is currently completing his translation and critical introduction to Luigi Pareyson’s Truth and Interpretation.  Forthcoming essays include “The Tradition of Tradition in Philosophical Hermeneutics” in Consequences of Hermeneutics (Northwestern University Press), “La deduzione ermeneutica” in Tropos, and "Gianni Vattimo's Recovery of Reason," in Between Nihilism and Politics (SUNY Press).  Current projects include a critical study of the work of Gianni Vattimo, and an introduction to philosophy through the experience of eating.

Tiffany Hubble, Religion and Philosophy Editor

Tiffany Hubble is a dual major in Philosophy and Political Science.  She has consistently achieved Dean's List status and works at Lebanon Valley College as a Peer Tutor.  Minoring in law and society as well as art and art history, Tiffany plans to attend law school after graduation.

 

Grant Taylor, Art and Art History Editor

Grant Taylor is an artist, art historian and film-maker. In his native Australia, Taylor has directed a documentary, produced short-films, and completed artist residencies and solo exhibitions. Taylor has recently completed a series of installations and public art projects that center on local Pennsylvanian themes. Taylor’s contributions to the discipline of art history include a number of journal articles on the early history of computer art. 

 

Rachel Eck, Art and Art History Editor

Rachel Eck is a sophomore studying Art and Art History at Lebanon Valley College.  She has gained experience in both artistic and literary spheres by exhibiting her paintings at professional galleries and by presenting a paper at the 2008 Christianity and Literature Conference held in Bridgewater, Virginia. She is a recipient of the Vickroy scholarship and the J. Luella K. Dunn scholarship for academic excellence. She will be working with Dr. Grant Taylor and other undergraduates on a research project concerning environmental art and the public space. For the past five years, Rachel has taught summer programs in the housing projects of Schuylkill County.

Gary Grieve-Carlson, Literature Editor

Gary Grieve-Carlson is Professor of English and Director of General Education at Lebanon Valley College.  He is the editor of Olson’s Prose and the author of many essays on twentieth-century American literature.

 

 

Mark Rosborough, Literature Editor

Mark Rosborough is an undergraduate English Literature major. He plans to attend grad school upon graduation and further his career in literary analysis. He is currently working on getting a review of Lucille Clifton's most recent collection of poetry, Voices, published.

 

Michael Schroeder, History Editor

Michael J. Schroeder is Assistant Professor of History at Lebanon Valley College. A Latin Americanistby training and a specialist in Nicaraguan history, Dr. Schroeder received his Ph.D. in History from the University of Michigan in 1993. In addition to numerous publications in his area of expertise, Dr. Schroeder is author of a middle school textbook on Mexican Americans and co-author of a widely used textbook in 20th century world history. A licensed residential builder in the State of Michigan, nationally certified massage therapist, sole author and administrator of the website www.SandinoRebellion.com, and an aficionado of hiking, canoeing, camping, yoga, and maidenhair ferns, he currently resides in Annville.

Chris DeLorenzo, History Editor

Chris DeLorenzo is a senior majoring in History and Spanish. He is currently the president of HyPE, LVC’s History, Political Science, and Economics Club, and a research assistant for Dr. Schroeder’s online archive of the Sandino Rebellion in Nicaragua. This March, he will present his research paper, entitled “Indigenous Movements in Bolivia and Peru: Identity and Mobilization,” at the conference of the Mid-Atlantic Council of Latin American Studies in Baltimore. Upon graduation, Chris plans to pursue a Ph.D. in Latin American History.

Rick Chamberlain, Foreign Languages Editor

Rick Chamberlin teaches courses at all levels in both German and French. He earned his PhD in German Literature from the University of Michigan in 1997; his areas of research are German and French medieval literature, as well as literary relations between the 20th-century German literature and culture.  He joined LVC in 2006. 

 

Jared Larson, Foreign Languages Editor At Large

Jared D. Larson, a native of Kansas City, Kansas, was a Visiting Instructor of Spanish at Lebanon Valley College in 2008-09.  A Ph.D. candidate in International Relations at the University of Delaware, he holds a B.A. in Spanish, French and Philosophy from Emporia State University (Emporia, Kansas) and an M.A. in International Relations and International Law from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid.  In addition to having been a Visiting Researcher at the Instituto Complutense de Estudios Internacionales in 2008, he has also been a Research Associate at the Instituto Galego de Análise e Documentación Internacional in Baiona, Galicia (Spain) since 2006.  In 2009-10 he will be a Visiting Researcher at the Centro de Estudos Geográficos at the Universidade de Lisboa, on a Fulbright scholarship.
He speaks English, Spanish, French, Portuguese and has studied Basque, Catalan, Galician, Italian and Mandarin.

Kristine Bova, Foreign Languages Editor

Kristine Bova is a student majoring in biology and psychobiology and minoring in German. Her most recent accomplishment in the Humanities field was attending the Mid-Atlantic Writing Centers Association Conference at York College, PA. Since attending the conference, she has been meeting with the director of the Writing Center and fellow writing center tutors to plan and implement fresh, new ideas for the improvement of LVC’s own Writing Center. She also has been recently inducted into the Biology Honors Society and the Social Justice Honors Society at LVC.