Notes on Contributors

James L. Baughman Professor of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, he is the author of Republic of Mass Culture: Journalism, Filmmaking, and Broadcasting in America since 1941 (1997) and is currently writing a history of American television in the 1950s. He always preferred Gary Cooper to John Wayne.

Sara Blair She teaches in the Department of English and the Program in American Culture at the University of Michigan. Her essay is drawn from a chapter in her current book in progress on modernism, modernity, and geographies of culture making.

Mitchell Breitwieser Professor of English at the University of California at Berkeley, he has written on Bradstreet, Rowlandson, Cotton Mather, Franklin, Jefferson, Thoreau, Whitman, Melville, and Fitzgerald.

Bruce Burgett An Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of Washington-Bothell, he is the author of Sentimental Bodies: Sex, Gender, and Citizenship in the Early Republic (1998). He is currently working on a study of sexual reform cultures in the antebellum US.

Ann duCille The William R. Kenan Professor of the Humanities at Wesleyan University, she chairs the African American Studies Program and directs the Center for African American Studies. She is the author of The Coupling Convention: Sex, Text, and Tradition in Black Women's Fiction (1993) and Skin Trade (1996), which won the Myers Center Award for the Study of Human Rights in 1997.

Thomas J. Ferraro Associate Professor of English at Duke University, he is currently at work on the media arts, Italian-American structures of feeling, and what cultural studies has to fear.

Jonathan Freedman A Professor of English and American Studies at the University of Michigan, he has authored Professions of Taste: Henry James, British Aestheticism, and Commodity Culture (1990) and The Temple of Culture: Assimilation and Anti-Semitism in Literary Anglo-America (2000). He has also edited anthologies on Henry James, Oscar Wilde, and Alfred Hitchcock.

Jacques Lezra An Associate Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, he is the author of Unspeakable Subjects: The Genealogy of the Event in Early Modern Europe (1997) and has published essays, translations, and edited volumes on literary criticism and theory, modernist literature, and the Spanish Golden Age.

Pamela R. Matthews An Associate Professor of English at Texas A&M University, she teaches American literature and women's studies. The author of Ellen Glasgow and a Woman's Traditions (1994), she is completing an edition of Glasgow's correspondence with women. Her current book project is tentatively titled Joan of Arc in America, 1776-2000.

Susan Mizruchi Professor of English and American Studies at Boston University, she is the author of The Power of Historical Knowledge: Narrating the Past in Hawthorne, James, and Dreiser (1988), The Science of Sacrifice: American Literature and Modern Social Theory (1998), and editor of Religion and Cultural Studies (forthcoming 2001).

Rafael Pérez-Torres An Associate Professor of English at UCLA, he has published articles on postmodernism, multiculturalism, and such contemporary American authors as Toni Morrison, John Rechy, and Luis Rafael Sánchez. In addition to his book Movements in Chicano Poetry: Against Myths, Against Margins (1995), recent publications include essays in American Literature, Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies, and A Casebook on Beloved (1999). His current project is a book-length study of the relationship between racial mixture and the Chicano cultural imagination.

Joel Pfister Professor of American Studies and English at Wesleyan University, he has written The Production of Personal Life: Class, Gender, and the Psychological in Hawthorne's Fiction (1991), Staging Depth: Eugene O'Neill and the Politics of Psychological Discourse (1995), and coedited (with Nancy Schnog) Inventing the Psychological: Toward a Cultural History of Emotional Life in America (1997). He is completing books on the history of individualizing and the Americanization of cultural studies, respectively.

Laura Rigal An Associate Professor of English and American Studies at the University of Iowa, she is the author of The American Manufactory: Art, Labor, and the World of Things in the Early Republic (1998) and is presently working on a cultural...