Michael Joseph Author & Editor

Alicja Bemben, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of English, the University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland. She is a co-organiser of various academic conferences and events, has co-edited several monographs, and authored a number of texts dealing with historiography (especially in the vein of Hayden White), historical novels (especially by Robert Graves) and their relationships. She cooperates with several journals, is a member of a few societies and research groups, and has coordinated a number of scientific projects.

Michael Joseph retired as Rare Books Librarian and full professor Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. He is the author of Teaching Guide to the Norton Anthology of Children’s Literature (2005), over 65 scholarly texts (articles, book chapters, reviews, etc.) and various novels, books of short stories and poetry. He is an editor of Handmade Literacies: Special Issue of The Lion and the Unicorn and The Robert Graves Review and the founding director of the New Jersey Book Arts Symposium. His recent publications include “Making Video Poems from Poems Made from Diary Entries Made from Dreams” in Book 2.0 (2025, 12 (1–2)), Omni-Puss in Boots (2025), The Marvelous Real in a Land of Dreams (2024), and “Children’s Poetry” in The Routledge Companion to Children's Literature (2023). In 2023, he was asked to participate in a discussion of contemporary children’s poetry, which appears as chapter 29, “Contemporary Children’s Poetry: A Colloquy” in The Bloomsbury Handbook of Contemporary American Poetry (2023). Since 2016 he has been the editor of The Robert Graves Review (formerly Gravesiana)