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  • Contributors

Derek Parker Royal, associate professor of English and director of liberal studies at Texas A & M University-Commerce, has edited a collection of essays on Philip Roth and completed a book-length manuscript on Roth's recent fiction. He is the author of several articles on contemporary and multi-ethnic American writing, as well as on graphic narrative.

Craig Douglas Dworkin, associate professor of English at the University of Utah, is the author of Reading the Illegible (2003), in Northwestern University Press's Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies series, and Strand (Roof, 2005), a volume of poetry. He has also edited two recent collections, Architectures of Poetry (Rodopi, 2004) and Language to Cover a Page: The Early Writings of Vito Acconci (MIT, 2006). His current project is titled "Misreading: A User's Manual."

Charles M. Cooney received his doctorate in comparative literature from the University of Chicago and is currently working in humanities computing. His scholarly work focuses on the relationships between French and American twentieth-century poets and between the two literary cultures.

Donald P. Kaczvinsky is Mildred Saunders Adams Professor of English and director of the school of literature and language at Louisiana Tech University. He has published numerous articles on twentieth-century British novelists and is the author of a book on Durrell, Lawrence Durrell's Major Novels, or the Kingdom of the Imagination (Susquehanna UP, 1997). He is writing a book on the novels of Graham Swift.

Gregory Jay is professor of English and director of the cultures and communities program at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. His books include American Literature and the Culture Wars (Cornell, 1997) and America the Scrivener: Deconstruction and the Subject of Literary History (Cornell, 1990). He is the author of numerous articles, on topics ranging from T. S. Eliot to multiculturalism and film history.

Steven Belletto is assistant professor of English at Lafayette College. He has published articles on P. T. Barnum, Vladimir Nabokov, and William Carlos Williams and is at work on a book on chance and design in cold war American narrative.

Lee M. Jenkins is senior lecturer in modern English at University College Cork. She is the author of The Language of Caribbean Poetry (Florida, 2004) and the co-editor, with Alex Davis, of Locations of Literary Modernism: Region and Nation in British and American Modernist Poetry (Cambridge, 2000) and The Cambridge Companion to Modernist Poetry (Cambridge, 2007). Her current project is a study of D. H. Lawrence and America. [End Page 172]

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