Dr. Maloney enjoys the interdisciplinary study of American literature and contemporary fiction. Since 2009, he has served as the Director of the St. Francis College Literary Prize ($50,000 for a mid-career work of fiction). He is on the Literary Council of the Brooklyn Book Festival and a Board Member for the Walt Whitman Initiative. Ian has been selected for the Speakers in the Humanities Program by the New York Council for the Humanities and is currently the Executive Editor of the Arthur Miller Journal. Ian's first book, Melville's Monumental Imagination (Routledge) came out in 2006. Dr. Maloney also wrote the Introductions for the Barnes and Noble editions of Herman Melville's Israel Potter and Walt Whitman's Specimen Days. His most recent articles are "Biographies" in Herman Melville in Context (Cambridge University Press, 2018) and "Union and Dismemberment: Melville, Whitman, and the Contradictions of American Character" in Monument and Modernity in the British and American Art and Literature (Sorbonne Nouvelle Press, 2015)