Journal of Commonwealth Literature, among others.
Paul Lauter is A. K. and G. M. Smith Professor of Literature at Trinity College. He is coordinating editor of the groundbreaking Heath Anthology of American Literature. His most recent book is Canons and Contexts. He is a member of the editorial board of Radical Teacher, the board of Resist, has served as editor and treasurer of The Feminist Press, and has worked both as activist and academic through much of his life.
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Robert S. Levine is Associate Professor of English at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is the author of Conspiracy and Romance: Studies in Brockden Brown, Cooper, Hawthorne, and Melville.
James H. Maguire, Professor of English at Boise State University, has served as coeditor of BSU's Western Writers Series since its founding in 1972. He is the author of Mary Hallock Foote and the editor of The Literature of Idaho: An Anthology.
Terence Martin is Distinguished Professor of English at Indiana University. He has published numerous studies and editions of nineteenth-century American writers, among them The Instructed Vision: Scottish Common Sense Philosophy and the Origins of American Fiction and Nathaniel Hawthorne. He is an associate editor of American National Biography.
Nellie McKay is Professor of American and Afro-American Literature at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She is the author of Jean Toomer, Artist: A Study of His Literary Life and Work, 1894–1936, editor of Critical Essays on Toni Morrison, and associate general editor of the forthcoming Norton Anthology of Afro-American Literature. She is currently working on a study of autobiographical narratives of African American women.
Susan Mizruchi is Assistant Professor of English at Boston University. She is the author of The Power of Historical Knowledge: Narrating the Past in Hawthorne, James, and Dreiser, as well as articles on James and Melville.
Margot Norris is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine. Her essays have appeared in PMLA, ELH, and MLN and in various collections of books, including work on Joyce, Kafka, Ibsen, and Puig. She is the author of The Decentered Universe of 'Finnegans Wake' and Beasts of the Modern Imagination: Darwin, Nietzsche, Kafka, Ernst, and Lawrence. Her new book on James Joyce's critique of modernism will be published by the University of Texas Press in 1992.
Patrick O'Donnell is the Eberly Professor of American Literature at West Virginia University. He is the author of John Hawkes; Passionate Doubts: Designs of Interpretation in Contemporary American Fiction; and Echo Chambers: Figuring Voice in Modern Narrative (forthcoming). He is the coeditor of Intertextuality and Contemporary American Fiction, and the editor of New Essays on The Crying of Lot 49. Presently he is working on a book about paranoia and contemporary American fiction.
Sandra Pouchet Paquet is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania, where she teaches Caribbean Literature and African American -850- Literature. She is the author of The Novels of George Lamming and is writing a book on West Indian autobiography.
Lora Romero is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Texas, Austin. She has written articles on Cooper and Stowe, as well as on minority discourse. She is currently completing a book entitled Domestic Fictions: A New Historicist Reading of the American Renaissance.
Jeffrey Rubin-Dorsky is Associate Professor of English and American Studies at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. He has published essays in nineteenth-century American literature and culture and in Jewish American literature, and he is the author of Adrift in the Old World: The Psychological Pilgrimage of Washington Irving. He is currently writing a book on masculinity and heroism in American literature and culture.
José David Saldívar is Associate Professor of American Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is the editor of The Rolando Hinojosa Reader: Essays Historical and Critical, coeditor of Criticism in the Borderlands: Studies in Chicano Literature, Culture, and Ideology, and author of The Dialectics of Our America: Genealogy, Cultural Critique, and Literary History and articles on cultural studies, Chicano literary criticism, and the institution of literary studies.
Robert Shulman has written Social Criticism and Nineteenth-Century American Fictions and numerous essays on nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature, culture, and politics for such journals as PMLA, American Literature, ELH, and Massachusetts Review. He is Professor of English at the University of Washington and was a visiting professor of American Studies and English at the University of Minnesota. He is currently writing a book on Political Art and the Politics of the Literary Canon: The 1930 Left Reconsidered.
Valerie Smith is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles. The author of Self-Discovery and Authority in Afro-American Narrative, she has published essays on African American feminist literature and theory. She is currently completing a book of essays on race, gender, and culture.
Cecelia Tichi is the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of English at Vanderbilt University. She is interested in literary-cultural relations, and her work spans Puritan New England through the television age. Her books include New World, New Earth: Environmental Reform in American Literature from the Puritans through Whitman; Shifting Gears: Technology, Literature, Culture -851- in Modernist America; and Electronic Hearth: The Acculturation of Television in the United States.
John M. Unsworth is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at North Carolina State University. He is coeditor of Postmodern Culture, an electronic journal available on Bitnet and Internet. He has published articles on John Hawkes, Gilbert Sorrentino, Carlos Baker, Wallace Stevens, Henry Fielding, and electronic publishing.
David Van Leer is Associate Professor of Englishand American Literature at the University of California, Davis. Author of Emerson's Epistemology, a study of Emerson and Kant, he is currently at work on a companion volume treating Poe's relation to Newtonian physics. His essays on contemporary culture for The New Republic and elsewhere are collected in The Queening of America: Gay Culture in Straight Society.
Cornel West is Professor of Religion and Director of African American Studies at Princeton University. His publications include Prophesy Deliverance! An Afro-American Revolutionary Christianity; Prophetic Fragments; PostAnalytic Philosophy (coedited with John Rajchman); and The American Evasion of Philosophy: A Genealogy of Pragmatism.
Christopher P. Wilson is Associate Professor of English and Director of American Studies at Boston College. He is the author of The Labor of Words: Literary Professionalism in the Progressive Era and White Collar Fictions (forthcoming).
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Aaron, Daniel, 383
Abbey, Edward, 753; The Brave Cowboy, 459; Desert Solitaire, 459; Hayduke Lives, 459; Jonathan Troy, 459; The Monkey Wrench Gang, 459
Abish, Walter, 753; Alphabetical Africa, 736; How German Is It, 737 -39
Abolition, 140 -43, 218 -22; Emerson and, 130 -31; Melville and, 150 -51; slave narratives and, 39–41; Uncle Tom's Cabin and, 144 -46
Abolitionists: Poe's view, 97 -98; women, views of, 101
Abortion, fictional account, 354
Abrams, M. H., 10
Academia: and literary success, 692 -94; male novelists and, 46; and postmodernism, 516 -17; post-World War II, 488 -89
Acculturation: Native American, in Canada, 576; novels of, 532 -34
Achebe, Chinua, Anthills of the Savannah, 665
