Virginia Polytechnic Inst and State U
Biographical Sketch: Shoshana Milgram Knapp, Associate Professor of English at Virginia Tech, teaches detective fiction, science fiction, comparative literature, and literature and film, in addition to the usual period and genre courses. She specializes in the fiction of nineteenth-century and twentieth-century writers (American, British, French, and Russian). Her publications have included articles on such figures as Victor Hugo, Napoleon, Ursula K. LeGuin, Vladimir Nabokov, John Steinbeck, Richard Wright, Leo Tolstoy, Anton Chekhov, Fyodor Dostoevsky—and the pseudonymous George Eliot, Victoria Cross, Nevil Shute, George Sand, and Ayn Rand.