John Block Friedman is professor emeritus of English at the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and visiting professor
of English at Kent State University-Salem. He received his Ph.D.
from Michigan State University. He is the co-editor, with Jessica
Wegmann-Sanchez, of Garland's Medieval Iconography: A Research
Guide(1998).
Kristen Mossler Figg is associate professor of English at Kent
State University-Salem. She received her Ph.D. from Kent State
University, where she did graduate studies in French and English.
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