Contributors to This Volume

Nathan Abrams lives in London, where he lectures in American History. He is currently writing a book about the history and impact of Commentary magazine.

Patrick Brantlinger is James Rudy Professor of English and Cultural Studies at Indiana University. He is the former editor of Victorian Studies (1980-90), and the author of several books, including Who Killed Shakespeare? What's Happened to English since the Radical Sixties (2001) and Dark Vanishings: On the Extinction of Primitive Races, 1800-1930 (forthcoming from Cornell).

Morris Dickstein is Distinguished Professor of English at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, where he is also senior fellow of the Center for the Humanities, which he founded in 1993. He teaches courses in English Romantic poetry, modern fiction, film studies, and American cultural history. He has been awarded fellowships by the ACLS, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the National Humanities Center. His books include Keats and His Poetry (1971), Gates of Eden: American Culture in the Sixties (1977, 1997), and Double Agent: The Critic and Society (1992). He has edited The Revival of Pragmatism (1998) and contributed a study of postwar fiction to the Cambridge History of American Literature (vol. 7, 1999). His most recent book is Leopards in the Temple: The Transformation of American Fiction, 1945-1970 (Harvard, 2002). In the last few years his essays and reviews have appeard in the New York Times Book Review, Partisan Review, The American Scholar, Raritan, The Nation, Literary Imagination, Dissent, and the Times Literary Supplement (London). He has served as film critic of the Bennington Review and Partisan Review and as advisor for a documentary film about the New York intellectuals, Joseph Dorman's Arguing the World. He was a founder and board member (1983-89) of the National Book Critics Circle and served as Vice-Chair of the New York Council for the Humanities from 1997 to 2001. He has been a contributing editor of Partisan Review since 1972, a member of the National Society of Film Critics since 1983, and a fellow of the New York Institute for Humanities since 1986.

Ethan Goffman is a freelance writer and editor. His book, Imagining Each Other: Blacks and Jews in Contemporary American Literature, was published by SUNY Press in 2000. His articles have appeared in Contact II, Cultureflux, Dissent, Contemporary Literature, Melus, Modern Fiction Studies, Neue Germanistik, and other magazines.

Eugene Goodheart is Edytha Macy Gross Professor of Humanities Emeritus at Brandeis University. He is the author of nine books of literary and cultural criticism and a memoir, Confessions of a Secular Jew (The Overlook Press), which was reviewed in a recent issue of Shofar. His other books include The Reign of Ideology (Columbia University Press) and The Skeptic Disposition: Deconstruction, Ideology and Other Matters (Princeton University Press).

Michael Kimmage is a Ph.D. candidate in Harvard University's History of American Civilization Program. His dissertation is "The Conservative Turn: Lionel Trilling, Whittaker Chambers and the Lessons of Anti-Stalinism."

Susanne Klingenstein is the author of two books on the integration of Jewish literary scholars into American academe and of numerous articles on Jewish American literature and culture. She is a lecturer in the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology and cultural correspondent for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

Mark Krupnick, Professor of Literature and Religion at the University of Chicago Divinity School, is author of Lionel Trilling and the Fate of Cultural Criticism and some 200 articles, review-essays, and shorter pieces. He is presently at work on a book about changes in sensibility and orientation among Jewish-American writers and intellectuals of the past half-century. He is a Professor of Religion and Literature at the Divinity School, University of Chicago.

Daniel R. Schwarz is Professor of English and Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow at Cornell University, where he has taught since 1968. He has received Cornell's College of Arts and Sciences Russell award for distinguished teaching...