Notes on Contributors

Paul Breines    He teaches modern European history at Boston College and is the author of Tough Jews: Political Fantasies and the Moral Dilemmas of American Jewry (1990).

Anna Brickhouse    An Assistant Professor of English at the University of Colorado, she is completing a book on transnational scenes of nineteenth-century US literature.

Bryan Cheyette    Chair in Twentieth-Century Literature in the English Department at the University of Southampton, UK, he is author of Constructions of "the Jew" in English Literature and Society (1993) and Muriel Spark (2000). He has also edited Between "Race" and Culture (1996), Contemporary Jewish Writing in Britain and Ireland: An Anthology (1998), and, with Laura Marcus, Modernity, Culture, and "the Jew" (1998). He is currently completing Diasporas of the Mind: A Critical History of British Jewish Literature for Yale University Press.

Shelly Eversley    She is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Baruch College, City University of New York.

D. G. Myers    Associate Professor of English and Religious Studies at Texas A&M University, he is author of The Elephants Teach: Creative Writing since 1880 (1996). He is currently at work on a book to be entitled Canonizing the Holocaust, a history of its reception.

Adam Zachary Newton    Associate Professor of English and member of the Committee on Comparative Literature and the programs in Middle Eastern Studies and Jewish Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, he is the author of Narrative Ethics (Harvard UP, 1995), Facing Black and Jew: Literature as Public Space in Twentieth-Century America (Cambridge UP, 1999), and The Fence and the Neighbor: Emmanuel Levinas, Yeshayahu Leibowitz, and Israel Among the Nations (SUNY P, 2001). His forthcoming book, on literary memoir by writers from Eastern Europe and the Levant, is entitled The Elsewhere: On Belonging at a Near Distance.

Tacey A. Rosolowski    A freelance writer, her articles and essays have appeared in Modern Language Studies, Arizona Quarterly, Salmagundi, Boulevard, and Southwest Review.

Ivy Schweitzer    Associate Professor of English and Women's Studies at Dartmouth College, she most recently co-edited The Literatures of Colonial America: An Anthology (Blackwell, 2001) with Susan Castillo, and is the early period editor for The Heath Anthology of American Literature.

Richard Slotkin    Olin Professor of American Studies at Wesleyan University, he is the author of a trilogy on the Myth of the Frontier in American culture: Regeneration Through Violence (1973), The Fatal Environment (1985), and Gunfighter Nation (1992). He has also published three historical novels. He is currently at work on a study of ethnicity and nationality in the combat film.

Timothy Sweet    Associate Professor of English at West Virginia University, he is author of Traces of War: Poetry, Photography, and the Crisis of the Union (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990), American Georgics: Economy and Environment in American Literature, 1580-1864 (University of Pennsylvania Press, forthcoming), and several articles on early American and Native American literature.