The Contributors

THE CONTRIBUTORS nan goodman is an assistant professor in the English Department at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She is writing a book on issues of liability and injury in American fiction, of which the current essay forms a part. TOM cohén teaches literary theory and American studies at UNCChapel Hill. His Anti-Mimesis: The Materiality of Language as Cultural Intervention, from Plato through Hitchcock, is forthcoming at Cambridge University Press. He is currently wotking on two books: a figurai study of the interface between black representation and language in Faulkner, Faulkner's Black Poetics, and a study of the presence of Nietzsche in Hitchcock. Michelle BURNHAM writes on American literature and culture, and teaches English at the State University of New York at Buffalo. She is currently writing a dissertation on captivity and sentiment in American literatute and has published an essay on Mary White Rowlandson in Early American Literature. George toles, Professor of English (Film Studies) at the University of Manitoba, has recently published an essay on James Agee in Southern Literary Journal. A second essay on the subject offilms and feeling will be appearing in a future issue of Raritan. He has co-authored the screenplays for three feature length films (for director Guy Maddin). Nicholas birns received his Ph.D. from New York University in early 1992, after completing a dissertation entitled "Spirits Lingering: Christianity and Modernity in American Litetature, r875-t96o." He has articles published or forthcoming in Exemptoria, Literature/ Film Quarterly, and Studies in Romanticism. helen deutsch is an Assistant Professor of English at Northwestern University. During the academic year 1992-1993 she served as an Ahmanson-Getty Postdoctoral Fellow in the UCLA program "Constructing the Body in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries." In addition to ttanslating Propertius, she has written various articles on Augustan Latin poetry and eighteenth-centuty English literature. She is currently completing a book entitled The Deformed Author and the Disappearing Male Body: Alexander Pope and the Legislation of Culture. ...