Contributors

Contributors RUTH M. BLAIR . . . has recently retired from the School of English, Media Studies, and Art History at the University of Queensland. There and in her previous appointment at the University of Tasmania, she taught American literature and environmental literature. Professor Blair also edited Melville's Typee for the Oxford World's Classics series. JOHN BRYANT. . . Professor of English at Hofstra University, has published A Companion to Melville Studies (1986), Melville and Repose (1996), The Fluid Text: ATheory of Revision and Editing for Book and Screen (2002), and various Melville editions —including Typee (1996, 2OO5), The Confidence-Man (2003), Melville 's Tales, Poems, and Other Writings (2001), and the forthcoming Longman Critical Edition of Moby-Dick (with Haskell Springer). He is presently the editor oÃ- Leviathan: AJournal of Melville Studies. His study ofthe Typee manuscript, titled Melville Unfolding: Sexuality, Politics, and the Versions of "Typee," and his archival electronic edition of the manuscript are forthcoming in 2006. ALEX CALDER . . . is a member of the Department of English at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. His research focuses on literature and the processes of cultural contact and settlement, particularly with regard to writings from New Zealand, the Pacific, and the United States. His latest book is an edition of Old New Zealand, and Other Writings by F. E. Maning, and he has recently written a chapter on Melville and the Pacific for Blackwell's forthcoming Companion to Herman Melville. T. WALTER HERBERT. . . is Emeritus Professor of English at Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas. He is the author of Marquesan Encounters: Melville and the Meaning of Civilization (1980), Dearest Beloved: The Hawthornes and the Making of the Middle-Class Family (1993), and Sexual Violence and American Manhood (2002). He is now at work on a project tentatively titled "Meditations on Religion and War in American Literature." SAMUEL OTTER. . . Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley , has published Melville's Anatomies (l999) and currendy is working on a book about race, manners, violence, and freedom between the Constitution and the Civil War, titled "Philadelphia Stories." He also is writing a series of essays focusing on questions of literary difference and cultural resonance in Melville's works. Professor Otter recently has published essays on books about Philadelphia and on Stowe and race and has articles forthcoming on Melville and disability , American literary criticism, and the poetics of Clarel. LEEQUINBY. .. is the visiting Carol Zicklin Chair in the Honors Academy at Brooklyn College, CUNY, and holder ofthe Donald R. Harter '39 Chair for Distinguished Teaching in Humanities at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. She is the author oÃ- Millennial Seduction (l999) > Anti- Apocalypse (1994), and Freedom, Foucault, and the Subject of America (1991) > as well as editor and/or coeditor of Feminism and Foucault (1988), Genealogy and Literature (1995)' and Gender and Apocalyptic Desire (2006). GEOFFREY SANBORN.. . is Associate Professor in the Languages and Literature division of Bard College. His publications include The Sign ofthe Cannibal: Melville and the Making ofa Postcolonial Reader (1998), an edition of Typee (2004), and essays on Melville, Hawthorne, Poe, Dickinson, Sandra Cisneros, and Frances Harper. He is currently working on three books: "Whipscars and Tattoos: Cooper, Melville, and the Maori"; "The Ultimate Secret Place: Inwardness and Affinity in American Literature"; and "Melville and Aesuietics" (coedited with Samuel Otter). VANESSA SMITH ... is an ARC Queen Elizabeth II Fellow in the Department of English at the University of Sydney. She is the author of Literary Culture and the Pacific: Nineteenth-Century Textual Encounters (1998), and coeditor of both Exploration and Exchange: A South Seas Anthology, 1680—igoO (2OO0) and Is- lands in History and Representation (2OO3). Professor Smith is currently writing a book on friendship and cross-cultural encounter in the long eighteenth century. ROBERT C. SUGGS . . . has been Field Director, Marquesas Archeological Expeditions, at the American Museum of Natural History, New York; Marquesan cultural advisor and interpreter at Cox Center, University of Georgia ; lecturer in Polynesian archeology and ethnology at the Institute for Polynesian and Hawaiian Studies, Windward College, Hawai'i, and University of Hawai'i; and Pacific Islands lecturer, guide, and interpreter for the Smithsonian Institution in French Polynesia and the western Pacific. He currently serves...