Notes on Contributors

Thomas M. Allen Assistant Professor of English at the University of Richmond, he is completing a book titled A Republic in Time: History, Modernity, and Social Imagination in Nineteenth-Century America.

Ralph Bauer Assistant Professor of English at the University of Maryland, College Park, he is author of The Cultural Geography of Colonial American Literatures: Empire, Travel, Modernity (2003).

Stephanie P. Browner Associate Professor in the Department of English, Theatre, and Speech Communication, and Dean of Faculty at Berea College, she is author of Profound Science and Elegant Literature (2004), and a scholarly electronic edition of The House Behind the Cedars (forthcoming).

Elizabeth Maddock Dillon Associate Professor of English and American Studies at Yale University, she is author of The Gender of Freedom: Fictions of Liberalism and the Literary Public Sphere (2004).

Andy Doolen Assistant Professor of American Literature and American Studies at the University of Kentucky, he is author of Fugitive Nation: Writing American Imperialism, 1741-1836 (forthcoming).

Laura Doyle Author of Bordering on the Body: The Racial Matrix of Modern Fiction and Culture (1994), she edited Bodies of Resistance: New Phenomenologies of Politics, Agency, and Culture (2001). She teaches at the University of Massachusetts- Amherst.

John M. González Assistant Professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin, he is currently completing a study titled "Inthe Wake of Reconstruction: Cultural Identities in Post-Reconstruction America."

Melody Graulich Editor of Western American Literature and Professor of English and American Studies at Utah State University, her recent books include Trading Gazes: Euro-American Women Photographers and Native North Americans, 1880-1940 (2003) and Reading the Virginian in the New West: Centennial Essays (2003).

Richard H. King He teaches at the University of Nottingham (UK). His book, Race, Culture and the Intellectuals, 1940-1970 will appear in September 2004.

Paul Lyons Associate Professor of English at the University of Hawai'i-Manoa, his most recent works include American Pacificism (forthcoming), and the novel Button Man (2003).

Raymond Nelson Arts and Sciences Professor of English at the University of Virginia, he is working on a cultural history of the US in 1940.

Michael Schudson Professor of Communication and Adjunct Professor of Sociology at the University of California, San Diego, his recent works include The Good Citizen: A History of American Civic Life (1998) and The Sociology of News (2003).