The Contributors

THE CONTRIBUTORS ellen E. Westbrook has published an article on Hawthorne's use of the versimilar in his standard method of romance in the tales; currently , she is working on a book-length study of three patterns of romance in Hawthorne's short fiction that are shaped by his use of different kinds of verisimilitude. Scott s. derrick is completing a manuscript on the interrelations of masculinity and authorship from Hawthorne to Fitzgerald. Michael beehler's recent publications include an essay on Eliot's theories of dramatic rhetoric for The CEA Critic and a forthcoming piece on Baudrillard and feminism in BaudriUard in the Mountains. He is currently working on a study of alterity and science fiction. louis owens' forthcoming work includes Between Two Fires; The Quest for Identity in the American Indian Novel (University of New Mexico Press), and the Dictionary of American Indian Novelists (Garland). His recent publications include two books on Steinbeck. hector torres is currently writing on applying linguistic models to the study of Chicano narrative. diana fuss is the author of Essentially Speaking: Feminism, Nature and Difference (Routledge, 1989), and editor of a book on gay/lesbian theory, forthcoming from Routledge (1990). She is currently at work on a book on gay/lesbian theory tentatively entitled The Third Sex. SUBMISSIONS The Board of Editors invites the submission of articles offering theoretical , historical, and cultural approaches to the canonical and noncanonical texts of American literature. Contributors should consult this issue for style. Please submit two paper copies, or a 51Zt-InCh IBM-compatible floppy disk and one hard copy. If sending a disk, please designate the word processing program used. A seIf-addressed, stamped envelope should accompany all manuscripts submitted. ...