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Elizabeth Ammons is Professor of English and of American Studies at Tufts University. She is the author of Edith Wharton's Argument with America and Conflicting Stories: American Women Writers at the Turn into the Twentieth Century. She is also the editor of Critical Essays on Harriet Beecher Stowe, How Celia Changed Her Mind and Selected Stories by Rose Terry Cooke, and Short Fiction by Black Women, 1900– 1920.
Christine Bold is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Guelph, Canada. She is author of Selling the Wild West: Popular Western Fiction, 1860 to 1960, as well as several essays on United States] popular culture and 1930s writing.
Robert Boyers founded the American intellectual journal Salmagundi in 1965, and continues to edit it at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York, where he is also Professor of English and Director of the New York State Summer Writers Institute. He writes frequently for such publications as The New Republic, TLS, Dissent, The American Scholar, Partisan Review, and the New York Times Book Review. The most recent of his six books are Atrocity and Amnesia: The Political Novel Since 1945 and After the AvantGarde.
Bill Brown, who teaches at the University of Chicago, has published work in Arizona Quarterly, Cultural Critique, and Critical Inquiry, among other journals; he is the author of Recreation and Representation in America, 1880–1950 (forthcoming).
Debra A. Castillo is Associate Professor of Romance Studies and Comparative Literature at Cornell University. She is author of The Translated World: A Postmodern Tour of Libraries in Literature and Talking Back: Strategies -847- for a Latin American Feminist Literary Criticism (forthcoming). She has published numerous essays on contemporary Latin American, Spanish, United States Hispanic, and British commonwealth fiction. She is editor of Diacritics, as well as book review editor of Letras femeninas.
Ed Cohen is the author of Talk on the Wilde Side: Towards a Genealogy of the Discourse on Male (Homo)Sexuality (forthcoming), as well as a number of articles on gender and cultural studies. He currently teaches in the English Department at Rutgers University and works as a counselor for people with life- threatening illnesses at the Manhattan Center for Living.
Arnold E. Davidson is Professor of Canadian Studies at Duke University. He has written Mordecai Richler, coedited The Art of Margaret Atwood, edited the MLA volume Studies on Canadian Literature: Introductory and Critical Essays, and published many essays on Canadian fiction.
Cathy N. Davidson is Professor of English at Duke University and editor of American Literature. Her most recent books are Revolution and the Word: The Rise of the Novel in America and Reading in America: Literature and Social History. She is general editor for Oxford University Press's Early American Women Writers series and is currently coediting the Oxford Companion to Women's Writing in the United States.
Thadious M. Davis is Professor of English at Brown University. She is the author of Faulkner's 'Negro': Art and the Southern Context, and a biography of Nella Larsen, Engendering Self in the Harlem Renaissance. Coeditor of three volumes on African American authors for The Dictionary of Literary Biography, she has published essays on Southern and African American literature. Joan Dayan's Fables of Mind: An Inquiry into Poe's Fiction, was published in 1987. She is currently a fellow at the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies at Princeton University, where she is completing a book called 'Haiti, History, and the Gods.'
Emory Elliott is Presidential Chair of English at the University of California, Riverside. He is the author of Power and the Pulpit in Puritan New England and Revolutionary Writers: Literature and Authority in the New Republic, as well as the editor of several books in American literature including the Columbia Literary History of the United States. He is also series editor for The American Novel for Cambridge University Press and for Penn Studies in Contemporary American Fiction.
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Thomas J. Ferraro is Assistant Professor of English at Duke University. He has published several essays on twentieth-century ethnic literature and film.
Michael T. Gilmore is Professor of English at Brandeis University. He is the author of American Romanticism and the Marketplace and a contributor to the forthcoming Cambridge History of American Literature.
Phillip Brian Harper is Assistant Professor of Englishand Afro-American Studies at Harvard University, where he teaches courses in English literary modernism, nineteenth- and twentieth-century United States literature, AfroAmerican culture, and contemporary cultural studies. His current scholarship, on social marginality and postmodern fiction, and on social division in African American culture, has been supported by grants from the Mellon Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Molly Hite is Associate Professor of English at Cornell University. She is the author of Ideas of Order in the Novels of Thomas Pynchon, The Other Side of the Story: Structures and Strategies of Contemporary Feminist Narrative, the academic novel Class Porn, and articles on contemporary literature, feminist theory, and the discipline of literary studies.
Amy Kaplan is Associate Professor of English at Mount Holyoke College. She is the author of Social Construction of American Realism, and has authored several essays on American realists and American imperialism in journals such as PLMA, ELH, and American Literary History. She is currently at work on a book about American imperialism.
Ketu H. Katrak, who grew up in Bombay, India, is currently Associate Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She is the author of Wole Soyinka and Modern Tragedy: A Study of Dramatic Theory and Practice and coeditor with H. L. Gates, Jr., and James Gibbs of Wole Soyinka: A Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Sources. She has published essays on African, Indian, and Caribbean literatures in journals such as Modern Fiction Studies, Third World Affairs, Black American Literature Forum, and
