The Contributors

153 THE CONTRIBUTORS Robert hughes is Assistant Professor in the English Department at Ohio State University where he teaches literary theory and 19thcentury American literature. He has co-edited After Lacan, completed a book, Writing Out of Death, and is currently writing about Emerson's theories of language and poetry. Michael SNEDiKER is Visiting Assistant Professor of American Literature at Mount Holyoke College. He has articles forthcoming in The Henry James Review and Modernism/Modernity. His poems are forthcoming in Beloit Poetry Journal and Pleaides. DANEEN Wardrop is author of two works of literary criticism, including Emily Dickinson's Gothic. Her articles have appeared in Texas Studies in Literature and Language, Women's Studies, African American Review and elsewhere. She teaches American Literature at Western Michigan University. Michael germana is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of English at the University of Iowa. He is completing his dissertation entitled "Standards ofValue: U.S. Monetary Policy and the Negotiation of Racial Difference in American Literature, 1834-1952." David hill, Professor of English at State University of New York at Oswego, co-edited volume 15 of the Journals and Misceüaneous Notebooks ofRalph Waldo Emerson and Emerson's Poetry Noteboofa. Present research interests include linguistic and cognitive perspectives on American writing. jEFFERY Andrew weinstock is Assistant Professor of English at Central Michigan University. He has edited three volumes of essays on American cultural and literary topics and has recently completed a manuscript on ghost stories by American women as a subversive form of political discourse ...