Contributors
- Contributors
Brenda Austin-Smith is Associate Professor of English and Film Studies at the University of Manitoba. She has published on film adaptation, on James’s The Golden Bowl and The Wings of the Dove, on filmmaker Patricia Rozema, on “prairie postmodern” film, and on women’s responses to melodrama. She has work forthcoming on Lars von Trier and on film and personal modernity. Her current SSHRC-sponsored research project is on memory, history, and melodrama.
David Cuthbert is an instructor in the Department of English at the University of Manitoba.
When Robin Hoople submitted this essay, he was a Senior Scholar at the University of Manitoba and a world-class scholar of Henry James. Past President of CAAS and a long time member of the editorial board of CRAS, he had been a member of the English Department at Manitoba since 1961. A student of Henry James’s work, he published two books on James, Distinguished Discord (1997) and In Darkest James (2000). He passed away in the summer of 2006, just after completing the revisions to his third book on James and American journalism.
Lesley Larkin is a doctoral candidate in English at the University of Washington, Seattle. She is currently writing a dissertation on “reading race” and the production—and contestation—of a liberal reading subject in twentieth-century American criticism, pedagogy, and selected literary works. She wrote this essay while expecting her first child (during which time she was asked incessantly about its sex) and is planning a future project on reading and motherhood.
Deborah L. Madsen is Professor of American Literature and Culture and Co-director of the program in Gender Studies at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. She is currently President of the Swiss Association for North American Studies (SANAS). She has published more than a dozen books on various aspects of literary theory, American Studies, feminism, and ethnic literature. Her publications include The Postmodernist Allegories of Thomas Pynchon (1991), Allegory in America: From Puritanism to Postmodernism (1996), Post-Colonial Literatures: Expanding the Canon (ed. 1999), Understanding Contemporary Chicana Literature (2000), Feminist Theory and Literary Practice (2000), Beyond the Borders: American Literature and Post-Colonial Theory (ed. 2003), and the Asian American Writers volume of the Dictionary of Literary Biography (ed. 2005). Her latest monograph is Chinese American Writers (2002); her most recent editing project was Textuality, Teaching and Technology (co-ed. 2006).
Bruce Tucker is Professor of History and Associate Vice-President, Academic Affairs at the University of Windsor. He is co-author of Changing Plans for American Cities (1998) and co-editor of Appalachian Odyssey: Historical Perspectives on the Great Migration (2000). [End Page 1] His articles have appeared in the New England Quarterly, American Studies, Prospects, Canadian Review of American Studies, and Journal of Appalachian Studies.
Pauline Wakeham is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Western Ontario. Her current research projects include a study of the semiotics of taxidermy and its relation to colonial discourses in North America and a comparative book-length analysis of discourses of reconciliation at the National Museum of the American Indian and the Canadian Museum of Civilization.
Priscilla l. Walton is a Professor of English at Carleton University in Canada. She is the author of Our Cannibals, Ourselves: The Body Politic (Illinois, 2004), Patriarchal Desire and Victorian Discourse: A Lacanian Reading of Anthony Trollope’s Palliser Novels (Toronto, 1995), and The Disruption of the Feminine in Henry James (Toronto, 1992). She is the co-author, along with Manina Jones, of Detective Agency: Women Rewriting the Hardboiled Tradition (California, 1999), and, along with Jennifer Andrews and Arnold E. Davidson, of Border Crossings: Thomas King’s Cultural Inversions (Toronto, 2003). She co-edited Pop Can: Popular Culture in Canada (Prentice-Hall, 1999), and edited the Everyman Paperback edition of Henry James’s The Portrait of a Lady. She has also published numerous articles and is the editor of the Canadian Review of American Studies. She is presently working with Sheryl Hamilton, Neil Gerlach, and Rebecca Sullivan on a new project called Biotechnological Imaginings: From Science Fiction to Social Fact. [End Page 2]
