Jennie Skerl
Senior Scholar in Beat Literature, West Chester University, USA
Jennie Skerl was associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at West Chester University and is a founding board member and past president of the Beat Studies Association. She has published William S. Burroughs, William S. Burroughs at the Front: Critical Reception, 1959-1989 (co-edited with Robin Lydenberg), A Tawdry Place of Salvation: The Art of Jane Bowles, and Reconstructing the Beats. Skerl edited the Winter 2000 special issue of College Literature on Teaching Beat Literature and contributed to Naked Lunch @ 50 (edited by Oliver Harris and Ian Macfadyen).