The Contributors

THE CONTRIBUTORS Shelley fisher FISHKiN, Professor of English and Director ofAmerican Studies at Stanford University, is the author or editor of awardwinning books on American literature and cultural history. She is President of the American Studies Association. Forrest g. Robinson is Professor of American Studies at uc, Santa Cruz. His books on Twain include In Bad Faith: The Dynamics of Deception in Mark Twain's America, The Cambridge Companion to Mark Twain, and (with Susan Gillman) Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson: Race, Conflict, and Culture. susan gillman is Professor of nineteenth-century American literature and culture at uc, Santa Cruz. Her recent books include Blood Talk: American Race Melodrama and the Culture of the Occult and Dark Twins: Imposture and Identity in Mark Twain. peter MESSENT is Head of the School of American and Canadian Studies at Nottingham University (U.K.). He is the author of The Short Works of Mark Twain: A Critical Study, Mark Twain, Ernest Hemingway, and New Readings of the American Novel: Narrative Theory and Its Application. Gregg camfield is Professor of English at the University of the Pacific and author of The Oxford Companion to Mark Twain, Necessary Madness: The Humor of Domesticity in Nineteenth-Century American Literature, and Sentimental Twain: Mark Twain in the Maze of Moral Philosophy. John Carlos ROWE is use Associate's Professor of the Humanities at the University of Southern California. His recent books are The New American Studies, and Literary Culture and U.S. Imperialism: From the Revolution to World War ?. Contributors 198 Hilton OBENZiNGER, critic, novelist, and poet, is the author of American Pa/esrine: Melvitte, Twain, and The Holy Land Mania. A recipient of the American Book Award, his work includes A*hole, Running through Fire, Cannibal Eliot and The Lost Histories of San Francisco, and New York on Fire. He teaches at Stanford University. David Lionel smith is the John W. Chandler Professor of English at Williams College. He is editor (with Jack Salzman and Cornel West) of The Encyclopedia of African American Culture and History. His scholarly interests include Mark Twain, Southern literature, nature writing, and the Black Arts Movement. ...