Edward S. Louis is the pen name of E. L. Risden, Professor Emeritus of English at St. Norbert College in De Pere, Wisconsin, USA. With specialties in English medieval and Renaissance literature and language, over thirty-seven years of college-level teaching he offered more than sixty different courses, workshops, and independent investigations. His nearly 180 publications include thirty-two books ranging from literary scholarship and theory to fiction, poetry, drama, translation, and pedagogical materials. Current work includes a study of literary spatiality, a consideration of the ongoing historical and aesthetic importance of film noir, and science fiction in both novel and short-story formats.