Cynthia O. Ho(†) was Professor Emeritus at University of North Carolina, Asheville. She received her doctorate in English Medieval Literature from the University of Maryland and was co-editor of Finding Saint Francis in Literature and Art (Palgrave, 2009), Crossing the Bridge: Comparative Essays on Heian Japanese and Medieval European Women (Palgrave, 2000), and The Asheville Reader: The Medieval and Renaissance World (Copley, 2003).
Kathleen W. Peters is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at Rhodes College. She received her BA in History and MA in Religion from the University of Georgia, and her PhD in Religion from Emory University. She is an expert in material culture whose publications include “Pottery as a Core Text? The Place of Archaeology in University Core Curriculum,” in Proceedings of the Sixteenth International Congress of Classical Archaeology, eds. C. Mattuch and A. Donahue (Oxbow Books, 2006), and “How the Clothes Do Make the Man: Conflicting Identities and the Sartorial History of St. Francis,” in Medieval Perspectives 30 (2015).
John M. McClain spent his career as a Lecturer in the Humanities Program at the University of North Carolina, Asheville. He received his MA and PhD in Political Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is a co-editor of The Asheville Reader: The Medieval and Renaissance World (Copley, 2003), and his publications include “A Christian Modernist and the Awe of Nature as Presented in Olivier Messiaen’s Opera, Saint François d’Assise,” in Finding Saint Francis in Literature and Art (Palgave, 2009).
J. Ross Peters is an educational consultant, writer, poet, and photographer. He received his B.A. in English from Sewanee: The University of the South and M.Ed. in Language Education from the University of Georgia. His poems have appeared in The American Journal of Poetry, Broad Street, The Broad River Review, Terminus, The Birmingham Poetry Review, and Aethlon. He has completed work on a volume of poetry, entitled The Flood is not the River.
