Masquerades: Gender and Identity in Fielding's Plays and Novels, and she is currently writing a book on Pope, Lord Hervey, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, and the construction of gender in eighteenth-century England.
Deirdre David is Professor of English and chair of the department at Temple University. The author of Fictions of Resolution in Three Victo -1017- rian Novels and Intellectual Women and Victorian Patriarchy, she is now completing a study entitled ''Grilled Alive in Calcutta': Women, Empire, and Victorian Writing.'
Ina Ferris is Professor of English at the University of Ottawa, Canada. Among her publications are The Achievement of Literary Authority: Gender, History and the Waverley Novels and William Makepeace Thackeray. She is currently working on a study of the national tale in the early Romantic period.
Brian Finney is adjunct Professor at the University of Southern California. Among his publications are Since How It Is: A Study of Samuel Beckett's Later Fiction, Christopher Isherwood: A Critical Biography, and The Inner I: British Literary Autobiography of the Twentieth Century. He is currently at work on a book about the current generation of British postmodernist novelists.
David Galef is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Mississippi. Specializing in British modernism, he has published The Supporting Cast: A Study of Flat and Minor Characters and essays on Conrad, Joyce, Woolf, T. S. Eliot, and many others.
Michael Gorra is Associate Professor of English at Smith College. He is the author of The English Novel at Mid-Century and is completing a book on imperialism and the novel in the twentieth century.
George E. Haggerty is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Riverside. He is the author of Gothic Fiction/Gothic Form and a wide range of essays on the eighteenth-century English novel. He is also the coeditor, with Bonnie Zimmerman, of Professions of Desire: Lesbian and Gay Studies in Literature. He is completing a book entitled Forms of Resistance: The Female Novel of the Later Eighteenth Century.
N. John Hall is Distinguished Professor of English at Bronx Community College and the Graduate School, City University of New York. Among his publications are The Letters of Anthony Trollope and Trollope: A Biography. He is currently writing a book on Max Beerbohm.
Lynne Hanley is Professor of Literature and Writing at Hampshire College. She is the author of Writing War: Fiction, Gender and Memory, and is currently writing a book entitled 'The Other Wars' on the representation of modern warfare in novels and memoirs by women of color and women of «enemy» nations.
Richard Kroll is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of The Material Word: Literate Cul -1018- ture in the Restoration and Early Eighteenth Century. He has published essays on Restoration drama and Hobbes, Davenant, Dryden, and Locke, and he is currently at work on two anthologies of critical essays on intellectual and literary history, and a study of eighteenth-century notions of dissent.
John Kucich is Professor of English at the University of Michigan. He is the author of Excess and Restraint in the Novels of Charles Dickens and Repression in Victorian Fiction. He is currently writing a book about the relationship between ethics and politics in Victorian fiction.
George Levine is Kenneth Burke Professor of English and Director of the Center for the Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture at Rutgers University. His most recent books are The Realistic Imagination, Darwin and the Novelists, and the volume of essays he has edited, Realism and Representation. He is currently working on a study of scientific objectivity, particularly in the nineteenth century, in its relation to literature and narrative.
Vicki Mahaffey is Associate Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Reauthorizing Joyce and numerous articles on modern literature. A Guggenheim Fellow in 1993 -94, she is finishing a book entitled 'The Fraying of the Plot: The Sub/Version of Representation in Modern Literature.'
George McCartney teaches at St. John's University. His articles have appeared in various magazines and journals and his study of Evelyn Waugh, Confused Roaring, is published by Indiana University Press.
Carol McGuirk is Professor of English at Florida Atlantic University. Her research interests range from eighteenth-century poetry to contemporary fiction and cultural studies. Recent publications include an essay on William Gibson's cyberpunk novels of the 1980s for Fiction 2000: Cyberpunk and the Future of Narrative and an annotated edition of the poems of Robert Burns published by Penguin.
Anne K. Mellor is Professor of English and Women's Studies at the University of California at Los Angeles. Her most recent book is Mary Shelley: Her Life, Her Fiction, Her Monsters. She has edited Romanticism and Feminism and The Other Mary Shelley: Beyond Frankenstein.
Vincent P. Pecora is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles. Among his publications is Self and Form in Modern Narrative. He is currently writing a book on ethnology, modernism, and modern literary theory. -1019-
Robert M. Polhemus is Howard H. and Jessie T. Watkins Professor of English at Stanford University. He is the author of Comic Faith: The Great Tradition from Austen to Joyce, The Changing World of Anthony Trollope, and Erotic Faith: Being in Love from Jane Austen to D.H. Lawrence. He is currently at work on a book on faith in the child and child abuse in literature and contemporary life.
Mary Poovey is Professor of English at The Johns Hopkins University. Among her publications are The Proper Lady and the Woman Writer and Uneven Developments. She is currently writing a book on the development of statistical thinking in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
Barry V. Qualls is Professor and Chair of English at Rutgers University. Among his publications are The Secular Pilgrims of Victorian Fiction: The Novel as Book of Life and articles on the Bible and literature. He is currently at work on a study of English readings of the Bible and Bunyan in the nineteenth century.
Rubin Rabinovitz is Professor of English at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Among his publications are The Reaction Against Experiment in the English Novel, Iris Murdoch, The Development of Samuel Beckett's Fiction, Innovation in Samuel Beckett's Fiction, a book on computer word processing, and many essays on modern literature.
John Richetti is Leonard Sugarman Professor of English and chair of the department at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the coeditor of the Cambridge University Press Series in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Thought. Among his publications are Popular Fiction Before Richardson: Narrative Patterns 1700– 1739, Defoe's Narratives, and Philosophical Writing: Locke, Berkeley, Hume. He is currently at work on a history of the eighteenth-century British novel and its relationship to social change.
Michael Rosenthal is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. In addition to numerous essays and reviews on twentieth-century British literature, he is the author of Virginia Woolf and The Character Factory: Baden Powell's Boy Scouts and the Imperatives of Empire. He is currently writing a biography of Nicholas Murray Butler.
G. S. Rousseau is Professor of English and Eighteenth-Century Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. Among his recent publications is a trilogy of books, Enlightenment Crossings, Perilous Enlightenment, and Enlightenment Borders: Pre- and Post-Modern Discourses. Together with Sander Gilman, Roy Porter, and Elaine Showalter, he most recently published Hysteria Beyond Freud. -1020-
Daniel R. Schwarz is Professor of English at Cornell University. Among his publications are Conrad: 'Almayer's Folly' to 'Under Western Eyes,' Conrad: The Later Fiction, The Transformation of the English Novel, 1890–1930, and The Case for a Humanist Poetics. In 1992 -93 he held the Visiting Citizen's Chair of English at the University of Hawaii.
Michael Seidel is Professor of English and chairman of the department at Columbia University. He is the author of books on James Joyce, on Daniel Defoe, on narrative theory, and on satire. He also writes on baseball history, including books on Joe DiMaggio and Ted Williams.
Patricia Meyer Spacks is Edgar E. Shannon Professor and chair of the department of English at the University of Virginia. Among her publications is Desire and Truth: Functions of Plot in Eighteenth- Century English Novels. She is currently completing a book on boredom.
