Notes on Contributors

Glenn C. Altschuler He is Dean of the School of Continuing Education and Summer Sessions and the Thomas and Dorothy Litwin Professor of American Studies at Cornell University. His most recent book, coauthored with Stuart M. Blumin, is Rude Republic: Americans and Their Politics in the Nineteenth Century.

Sacvan Bercovitch He is Powell M. Cabot Research Professor at Harvard University. He is the author of many studies of American literature and culture, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and General Editor of the multivolume Cambridge History of American Literature.

Robert J. Corber He is Associate Professor of American Studies and Lesbian and Gay Studies at Trinity College and the author of In the Name of National Security: Hitchcock, Homophobia, and the Political Construction of Gender in Postwar America (1993) and Homosexuality in Cold War America: Resistance and the Crisis of Masculinity (1997). With Steve Valocci, he is editor of Queer Studies: An Interdisciplinary Reader (2002).

Andrew DuBois A graduate student of English and American Literature at Harvard University, he has written for Publishers Weekly,Harvard Review, and the encyclopedia Africana. He has collaborated with Frank Lentricchia on "Modernist Lyric in the Culture of Capital" ( Cambridge History of American Literature, vol. 5) and Close Reading: The Reader.

Thomas J. Ferraro An associate professor of English at Duke University, he is the author of Ethnic Passages: Literary Immigrants in Twentieth-Century America (1993) and the editor of Catholic Lives, Contemporary America (1997). He is now at work on "Feeling Italian and the Art of American Culture."

Alan Filreis He is the Class of 1942 Professor of English and Faculty Director of the Kelly Writers House at the University of Pennsylvania. Among his writings are Wallace Stevens and the Actual Word (1991) and Modernism from Right to Left (1994). His new book is titled The Fifties' Thirties: Anticommunism and Modern Poetry, 1945-60.

Rena Fraden Professor of English at Pomona College, she is the author of Blueprints for a Black Federal Theater: 1935-39 (1994) and Imagining Medea: Theater for Incarcerated Women (2001). She is currently working on a book about confessional theatrical forms.

Sandra M. Gustafson She is the author of Eloquence is Power: Oratory and Performance in Early America (2000), as well as numerous essays on colonial and early US literature and culture. She is the book review editor for Early American Literature and teaches at the University of Notre Dame.

Catherine Gunther Kodat Associate professor of English and American Studies at Hamilton College, she has published essays on the work of George Balanchine, William Faulkner, Zora Neale Hurston, Allen Tate, Lorraine Hansberry, Steven Spielberg, Toni Morrison, and Quentin Tarantino. Her essay on jazz and canon formation is forthcoming in American Quarterly.

Rodrigo J. Lazo Assistant Professor of English at Miami University of Ohio, he is completing a book-length study of writers from Cuba in the antebellum US. His previous articles have appeared in American Literature, Exemplaria, and Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage.

Susan Mizruchi She is Professor of English and American Studies at Boston University and is the author, most recently, of The Science of Sacrifice: American Literature and Modern Social Theory (1998) and editor of Religion and Cultural Studies (2001). She was a Guggenheim Fellow in 2001-2002, working on the book Culture, Economy, and the Novel, 1865-1917 (forthcoming) from which this essay derives.

Barbara L. Packer Professor of English at UCLA, she is the author of "The Transcendentalists" in the Cambridge History of American Literature, volume 2, and has just completed the "Historical Introduction" to volume 6 of The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (The Conduct of Life).

Cyrus R. K. Patell Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the English Department at New York University, he is the author of Negative Liberties: Morrison, Pynchon, and the Problem of Liberal Ideology (Duke UP, 2001). His study Beyond Hybridity will be published later this year by Palgrave.

Werner Sollors Werner Sollors teaches Afro-American Studies and English at Harvard University and is the...