The Contributors

THE CONTRIBUTORS susan weiner is a scholar and writer who received her Ph.D. in American Literature from Northwestern University. Her book, "Law in Art": Melville's Major Fiction and Nineteenth-Century American Law (Peter Lang) will be published later this year. She is currently working on the use of Melville's works in film. Her columns on contemporary American culture have appeared in major newspapers across the country. marc shell is John D. and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation Fellow for 1990-95. His publications include The Economy of Literature (1978), Money, Language, and Thought (1982), and The End of Kinship (1988). Children of the Earth (Oxford), Elizabeth's Ghss (Nebraska ), and Art & Money (Chicago) will be published next year. Professor Shell is Head of the Department ofComparative Literature at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. alan coLDiNG, Associate Professor of English at the University of Louisville, is completing From Oudaw to Chssics: Canons in American Poetry for the University of Wisconsin Press. He is also writing essays on New Historicist treatments of American poetry, and on Language writing as institutional critique. David kaufman teaches Romanticism and eighteenth-century literature at George Mason University. His article on theory, "The Profession ofTheory," appeared in PMLA in 1990. A discussion ofcontemporary poetry, "Doing the Twelve-Step," will appear in Ploughshares this winter. ann ardis, Assistant Professor of English at the University of Delaware , is the author of New Women, New Novels: Feminism and Early Modernism. dale M. bauer, Associate Professor of English and Women's Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is author of Feminist Dialogues and essays on Edith Wharton and feminist pedagogy. ...