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Phillip Sipiora

Scholar of rhetoric, literature, and film; Professor of English and Film Studies at the University of South Florida and the founding editor of The Mailer Review. He wrote the "Criticism" chapter of Norman Mailer in Context (2021) and edited the Mailer essay collection Mind of an Outlaw.

Phillip Sipiora is a Professor of English and Film Studies at the University of South Florida and the founding editor of The Mailer Review — the annual jointly sponsored by USF and the Norman Mailer Society (see About this project). He is the author or editor of five books, including Mind of an Outlaw (Random House), a collection of essays by Norman Mailer, and he has published some fifty scholarly essays on twentieth-century literature and film, on writers from F. Scott Fitzgerald to Ernest Hemingway. He contributed the “Criticism” chapter to Norman Mailer in Context.

In The Mailer Review

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Vol. 1 (2007)

Phillip Sipiora is Professor of English and Film Studies at the University of South Florida, where he has taught twentieth-century literature and film since coming from the University of Texas at Austin in 1985. He is the author or editor of three books, more than two dozen scholarly articles, and has lectured nationally and internationally on literature and film. He is the editor of The Mailer Review.

Vol. 2 (2008)

Phillip Sipiora is Professor of English and Film Studies at the University of South Florida, where he has taught twentieth-century literature and film since coming from the University of Texas at Austin in 1985. He is the author or editor of three books, three dozen scholarly essays, and has lectured nationally and internationally on literature and film. He is Editor of* The Mailer Review*.

Vol. 3 (2009)

Phillip Sipiora is Professor of English and Film Studies at the University of South Florida. He is the author or editor of three books and has published approximately three dozen scholarly essays. He has lectured nationally and internationally on twentieth-century literature and film and is the Editor of The Mailer Review.

Vol. 4 (2010)

Contributor’s note as in vol. 3.

Vol. 5 (2011)

Contributor’s note as in vol. 3.

Vol. 6 (2012)

Phillip Sipiora is Professor of English and Film Studies at the University of South Florida. He is the author or editor of four books and has published approximately three dozen scholarly essays. He has lectured nationally and internationally on twentieth-century literature and film and is the founding editor of The Mailer Review.

Vol. 7 (2013)

Phillip Sipiora is Professor of English and Film Studies at the University of South Florida. He is the author or editor of four books and has published approximately three dozen scholarly essays. He has lectured nationally and internationally on twentieth-century literature and film. His most recent book is Mind of An Outlaw: Selected Essays (Random House 2013) and is currently working on a volume examining the career of Ida Lupino. Sipiora is the founding editor of The Mailer Review and is a member of the Board of Directors of the Norman Mailer Society.

Vol. 8 (2014)

Phillip Sipiora is Professor of English and Film Studies at the University of South Florida. He is the author or editor of four books and has published approximately three dozen scholarly essays. His forthcoming book, The Films of Ida Lupino, will be published in 2015 (U of Edinburgh P). He has lectured nationally and internationally on twentieth-century literature and film and is the Founding Editor of The Mailer Review.

Vol. 9 (2015)

Phillip Sipiora is Professor of English and Film Studies at the University of South Florida. He is the author or editor of five books and has published approximately three dozen scholarly essays. He has lectured nationally and internationally on twentieth-century literature and film and is the Founding Editor of The Mailer Review. He is the editor of a forthcoming volume, The Films of Ida Lupino (Edinburgh University Press, 2016).

Vol. 10 (2016)

Phillip Sipiora is Professor of English and Film Studies at the University of South Florida. He is the author or editor of five books and has published approximately three dozen scholarly essays. He has lectured nationally and internationally on twentieth-century literature and film and is the Founding Editor of The Mailer Review. He is the editor of a forthcoming volume, The Films of Ida Lupino (Edinburgh University Press, 2017).

Vol. 11 (2017)

Phillip Sipiora is Professor of English and Film Studies at the University of South Florida. He is the author or editor of five books and has published approximately three dozen scholarly essays. He has lectured nationally and internationally on twentieth-century literature and film and is the Founding Editor of The Mailer Review. He is the editor of a forthcoming volume, Ida Lupino: The Pioneering Lens (Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2019).

Vol. 12 (2018)

Contributor’s note as in vol. 11.

Vol. 13 (2019)

Phillip Sipiora is Professor of English and Film Studies at the University of South Florida. He is the author or editor of five books and has published approximately three dozen scholarly essays. He has lectured nationally and internationally on twentieth-century literature and film and is the Founding Editor of The Mailer Review. He is the editor of a forthcoming volume: *Ida Lupino, Filmmaker *(Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2020), “Bathos and Pathos in the Bowery” in Wallace Fox and Social Protest (Edinburgh UP, 2020), and “Mailer’s Literary Criticism” in Norman Mailer in Context. Ed. Maggie McKinley (Cambridge UP, 2021).

Vol. 14 (2020)

Phillip Sipiora is Professor of English and Film Studies at the University of South Florida. He has lectured nationally and internationally on twentiethcentury literature and film and is the Founding Editor of The Mailer Review. He is the author or editor of five books, including *Mind of An Outlaw *(Random House, 2013). He has published approximately three dozen scholarly essays, including readings of the films of Wallace Fox, Joseph H. Lewis, Stanley Kubrick, Ida Lupino, Edgar Ulmer, Robert Wiene, and Billy Wilder. He is the editor of a forthcoming volume: *Ida Lupino, Filmmaker *(Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2021), and forthcoming essays, “Norman Mailer’s Literary Criticism” in Norman Mailer in Context (Cambridge UP, 2021), “Bathos in the Bowery,” in Wallace Fox and Social Protest (U of Edinburgh P, 2021), and “Ethical Encounter(s): Narrative Performance in The Great Gatsby and The Sun Also Rises” (2021).

Vol. 15 (2021)

Phillip Sipiora is Professor of English and Film Studies at the University of South Florida. He has lectured nationally and internationally on twentieth-century literature and film and is the Founding Editor of The Mailer Review. He is the author or editor of five books, including *Mind of an Outlaw *(Selected Essays by Norman Mailer, Random House, 2013). He has published approximately three dozen scholarly essays, including readings of the films of Joseph H. Lewis, Stanley Kubrick, Ida Lupino, Edgar Ulmer, Robert Wiene, and Billy Wilder. He is the editor of Ida Lupino, Filmmaker (Bloomsbury Academic Press, August, 2021), and author of Chapter 7, “Criticism,” in Norman Mailer in Context (Cambridge UP, 2021). Forthcoming essays include “Bathos in the Bowery,” in Wallace Fox and Social Protest (U of Edinburgh P, 2022).

Vol. 16 (2026) — forthcoming

Phillip Sipiora is Professor of English at the University of South Florida and the founding editor of The Mailer Review. A scholar of rhetoric and of twentieth-century American literature, he has edited several collections and guided two decades of Mailer scholarship through the journal he founded.

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