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  • Contributors

Joanne Trautmann Banks, Professor of Humanities and English at Pennsylvannia State University's College of Medicine 1972-1986, is a founding editor of this journal. Outside of the medical humanities, her major work has been the editing of Virginia Woolf's letters in seven volumes.

Paul Beidler holds degrees from Lehigh University and the University of Toronto, and he now teaches at Lenoir-Rhyne College in North Carolina. He has published on deconstruction and Henry James; on postmodern art; on Sterne, Hume, and the literary sketch; and on the significance of the chiasmus in Gerard Manley Hopkins's poetry.

Lois Bragg is Professor of English at Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C. She is the editor of Deaf World: A Historical Reader and Primary Sourcebook and writes extensively on medieval Germanic languages and literatures, and in the field of disability studies.

Deborah Caslav Covino is Assistant Professor of English and Women's Studies at Florida Atlantic University. She teaches courses in feminist theory and aesthetics, literary theory, literature and medicine, and visual and literary representations of the body. Her current book project, Aesthetic Surgeries: Grotesque Protest and the Sculpted Body, examines both the current boom in aesthetic surgery and contemporary feminist refigurations of the female body, as they both acknowledge and resist human abjection.

Gregory M. Downing is Assistant Professor in the Gallatin School of Individualized Study of New York University, where he teaches Ulysses as well as a wide range of interdisciplinary and history-of-ideas courses. Currently, he is coordinating the "Oxen of the Sun" section of the Ulysses in Hypermedia project, under the general direction of Michael Groden, and is also completeing a book, Universe of Discourse, on Joyce's background in late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century ideas about language.

Lynn C. Epstein is Associate Dean of Medicine and Clinical Professor in the Departments of Community Health and Psychiatry at Brown University. Her long-standing interests in broadening educational outreach are evident in her writings and activities with the Affinity Group Program (mentoring, service learning, and problem-based educational groups). She edits the Reflections section of the Annals of Behavioral Science and Medical Education and teaches an undergraduate course on literature and medicine. She established the first endowed literature and medicine lectureship in a medical school, which bears the name of Harriet W. Sheridan, which was featured in the Fall 1994 issue of this journal. In 1999, she was elected to membership in the American Osler Society. [End Page 305]

Robert Haas has two Ph.D.s from Case Western Reserve University, the first in mathematics and the second in microbiology and molecular biology. He spent fourteen years in postdoctoral research in Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine's Department of Pharmacology, and more recently he completed an M.A. in English at this university. He has numerous publications in cell biology and protein biochemistry and has also published literary criticism on Joyce and satire on Whitman, Proust, science, and music.

S. W. Henderson is a fourth-year medical student and James Scholar at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine. He is an associate editor of msJAMA, to which he has also contributed, and has a forthcoming piece in Academic Medicine.

Bruce Kellner is Emeritus Professor of English at Millersville University, near Lancaster, Pennsylvania. He is the author of two biographies, Carl Van Vechten and the Irreverent Decades (1986) and Ralph Barton, American Artist (1991); and editor of Letters of Carl Van Vechten (1987), Letters of Charles Demuth, American Artist (2000), and several reference works including The Harlem Ranaissance: A Historical Dictionary (1984) and A Gertrude Stein Companion (1988). Also, he is the author of two one-character plays that have been produced: Staying on Alone about Alice B. Toklas, with Julie Harris; and Swimming on Concrete about Vassar Miller.

Ron Loewe is an assistant professor of anthropology in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Mississippi State University. He was Director of Faculty Development for the Department of Family Practice at Cook County Hospital from 1997-2000 and has published articles and reviews in Social Science and Medicine; Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry; Family Medicine; The Journal of Family Practice; and...

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