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Charlie Reilly is professor of English at Montgomery County Community College, Blue Bell, Pennsylvania. During the past twenty-seven years he has published scores of interviews with American writers; fifteen of them have been collected in books. He is completing interviews with Arthur Miller and E. L. Doctorow.

Elizabeth Willis, assistant professor of English at Wesleyan University, is the author of four volumes of poetry—Second Law (Avenue B, 1993), The Human Abstract (Penguin, 1995), Turneresque (Burning Deck, 2003), and Meteoric Flowers (Wesleyan, forthcoming)—and several essays on nineteenth- and twentieth-century poetry. Her work in progress includes an edited collection on Lorine Niedecker and a collection of her own essays on Pre-Raphaelite to postmodern aesthetics.

Beth McCoy, associate professor of English at the State University of New York, Geneseo, has published articles on race and gender in the fiction of Jessie Redmon Fauset, Pauline Hopkins, Nella Larsen, Toni Morrison, and Carl Van Vechten. She is at work on a book manuscript on paratextuality and African American culture.

Andrew J. Auge, professor of English at Loras College, in Dubuque, Iowa, has published articles on deterritorialization in Seamus Heaney's poetry and on maternity and national identity in the poetry of Eavan Boland. He is writing an essay on notions of gift and sacrifice in Heaney's work for a collection of essays on the poet.

Kirstin Hotelling Zona, associate professor of modern poetry and poetics at Illinois State University, is the author of Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop, and May Swenson: The Feminist Poetics of Self-Restraint (Michigan, 2002) and articles on subjectivity and sexuality, feminist poetry, and feminist pedagogy. Her poetry has appeared in various journals and anthologies. Her current projects are a critical book on ethics and American poetry and a volume of poems.

Robert Chodat, assistant professor of English at Boston University, has published articles on Saul Bellow, Donald Davidson, Gertrude Stein, and Wallace Stevens and T. S. Eliot. His book project is titled "The Patterns of Persons: Ideas of Agency in Modern American Literature."

Elaine M. Kauvar is professor of English at Baruch College, City University of New York. She is the author of Cynthia Ozick: Tradition and Invention (Indiana, 1993) and editor of A Cynthia Ozick Reader (Indiana, 1996). Topics of her articles include Jane Austen, William Blake, and Philip Roth. She is at work on a manuscript titled "Hannah Arendt and Heinz Kohut: The Biographer as Autobiographer."

Sara Guyer is assistant professor of English and Jewish studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She has published articles on Romanticism, literary theory, and post-Holocaust literature. Her book Romanticism after Auschwitz is forthcoming from Stanford University Press.

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