Contributors

162 the minnesota review Contributors DENISE ABERCROMBIE works as a house painter in Fairfield County , Connecticut and is studying English literature. MICHAEL BEARD teaches English at the University of North Dakota and works on Arabic literature. JOSEPH CADY is an independent scholar, poet, and psychotherapist living in New York City; his poems have appeared in Massachusetts Review, Shenandoah, American Poetry Review, and Socialist Review. TOM DISCH lives in New York City, where he writes fiction, poetry,and essays. His short story, "A Fresh Approach from a Different Angle," appeared in mr NS 23. SESSHU FOSTER is a poet, translator, and journalist; she is active in the Grupo Latinoamericano of CISPES in Los Angeles. A frequent contributor to mr, JEAN FRANCO directs the Institutue for Iberian and Latin American Studies at Columbia University; she is currently working on a study of women and culture in Latin America. JANE GAINES teaches film and literature at Duke University and is co-editing an anthology on Marxist-feminist approaches to costume and body. GARY GARVIN grew up in Greensboro, North Carolina and now lives in Berkeley (the one in California); he has (not necessarily in this order) swept tennis courts, worked on construction, stacked bricks (a related activity to the previous one), stacked pants (unrelated to either of the previous two), waited tables, driven a truck, reviewed the eligibility of welfare clients (as one might have guessed), and taught English in a variety of contexts—most recently on a part-time basis at a college that pays so little he has declined to identify it. DAVID GRAHAM is not to be confused with the professional golfer of the same name whose poetry (if he writes any) has not appeared in the following journals (unlike the poetry of his namesake): Georgia Review, Iowa Review, Nimrod, and a whole heap of other places. ADNAN HAYDAR teaches at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Recently removed to the University of Capetown, JOHN HIGGINS is working on a study of Raymond Williams. CHRISTOPHER Z. HOBSON has, in his own words, "been active in the Movement since about 1960"; his poetry has previously appeared in Harper's and The Nation. JONATHAN HOLDEN teaches English at Kansas State University. PIERRE MACHEREY was among the collaborators in the Althusserian project, Reading Capital; unlike some of his former comrades, he has continued to keep faith with the principles and goals projected in that text. An assistant professor of French and Italian at Brandeis University, ELAINE MARX-SCOURAS has resided abroad for over 1 5 years and has published articles on North African Francophone literature, as well as on post-war French and Italian literary journals; her first child, Kyle Matthews, was born last August 12. WARREN MONTAG is a member of Solidarity and died-in-the-wool contributors 163 Althusserian (I can't figure it out either); he is currently working on a study of Swift and materialist philosophy to be published by Verso Editions . V. OKPOTI ODAMTTEN (better known as Vincent among his friends) has taught at the Unviersity of Cape Coast in Ghana and is currently assistant professor of English at Hamilton College, where he is rumored to be completing a doctoral dissertation on the Ghanaian writer Ama Ata Aidoo. STACEY OLSTER teaches contemporary American literature at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. FRANK PAIZ lives in Berkeley and works as a clinician concerned with the treatment of survivors of torture; during the Vietnamese war, he acted as liaison between the Swedish government and U.S. draft resisters who* fled there. MARGARET RANDALL was born in the U.S. and lived in Latin America for 23 years; she is presently teaching Women's Studies and American Studies at the University of New Mexico while fighting for her right to remain in the land of her birth. A former editor of mr, LAURA RICESAYRE teaches in the English Department at Oregon State University. LEX RUNCIMAN's book, The Admirations, will be published by Lynx House Press. E. SAN JUAN, Jr. teaches comparative literature at the University of Connecticut and is at work on Oreintalist discourse in U.S. scholarship on the Philippines. SANDRA SCOFIELD lives and writes in...