Notes on Contributors

Karen Alkalay-Gut is senior lecturer of English at Tel Aviv University. Her research includes a biography of the modernist poet, Adelaide Crapsey, as well as studies of Ernest Dowson, Algernon Swinburne, and Oscar Wilde. She recently completed a chapter on Decadent Poetry for A Handbook of Victorian Poetry (forthcoming). She occasionally records music.

Kathleen Crown is assistant professor of English at Kalamazoo College, where she teaches courses in poetry and poetics. Her reviews and articles on modern and contemporary poetry have appeared in, among other publications, Contemporary Literature, Women’s Studies, Sagetrieb, American Letters and Commentary, Virginia Woolf: Texts and Contexts (1996) and H. D. and Poets After (2000).

Lilach Lachman is a lecturer at Tel Aviv University. Called, her book of poems, appeared in 1995, and a selection of her Hebrew translations of poems by Emily Dickinson was published in the literary journals Chadarim and Mikarov. She is currently working on the poetics of time and space in the long poem. Her book on subjectivity in modern Hebrew poetry, Each One the Last of Them, is in preparation.

Brian McHale is Eberly Family Distinguished Professor of American Literature at West Virginia University and coeditor of Poetics Today. He has published two books on postmodernist fiction and numerous essays on narratology and topics in modernism and postmodernism. He is currently completing a sequence of two books on postmodernist poetry.

Jonathan Monroe is professor of comparative literature at Cornell University. Author of A Poverty of Objects: The Prose Poem and the Politics of Genre (1987), he is currently completing a second critical book, Poetry among the Discourses: On Contemporary Poetry and Cultural Criticism; a collection of prose poems, Demosthenes’s Dictionary; and three interrelated edited volumes on writing and disciplinarity. He has published widely on modern and contemporary poetry in such journals as Comparative Literature, Contemporary Literature, diacritics, and Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature. His poems have appeared, in addition, in numerous journals, including The American Poetry Review, Epoch, Harvard Review, and Verse.

Andrés J. Nader is assistant professor of German and comparative literature at the University of Rochester. While researching his dissertation, “Emergency Poetry: Lyric Production in the Concentration Camps,” he worked as an interviewer for the Archive of Memory: Interviews with Survivors of the Shoah at the Moses Mendelssohn Centre for European-Jewish Studies, University of Potsdam, Germany.

Libbie Rifkin teaches modern American poetry and culture at the University of Alabama. Her book, Career Moves: Olson, Creeley, Zukofsky, Berrigan, and the American Avant-Garde, is scheduled for publication in the spring of 2000. She has published articles on Ted Berrigan’s social poetics and on AIDS and poetry, as well as numerous book reviews. Her current projects include studies of the canon-forming collaboration between poets and university library archivists and of gender and authority in twentieth-century American poetry.

John Shoptaw, currently visiting assistant professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley, is the author of On the Outside Looking Out: John Ashbery’s Poetry (1994). He is presently at work on a libretto, Our American Cousin; a book-length poem, Wrong; and a work of criticism, Lyric Cryptography, from which his article in this issue is drawn.

...