The Contributors

THE CONTRIBUTORS Forrest G. robinson is a Professor of American Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His books on the American West include Wallace Stegner (with Margaret Robinson); in Bad Faith: TL· Dynamics ofDeception in Mark Twain's America; Having It Both Ways: Self-Subversion in Western Popuhr Classics; and The Cambridge Companion to Mark Twain. Jerome frisk studied philosophy at Pomona College, comparative religion at Harvard Divinity School and holds a Ph.D. in History of Consciousness from the University of California, Santa Cruz. His contribution to this journal is a chapter from his dissertation on the western origins of American environmentalism. He has presented numerous papers on multicultural and environmental issues at Melus, wla, and MLA conferences. He currently teaches Global Studies at Stevenson College, ucsc. krista comer took her Ph.D. from Brown University's Department of American Civilization in 1996. Her first book, Women Writers, TL· New West, and the Politics ofLandscape, is forthcoming from University of North Carolina Press. Forthcoming essays will appear in Updating he Literary West (Texas Christian University Press), in Breaking Boundaries: New Perspectives on Women's Regional Fiction (University Press of Iowa), and Frontiers: Ecofeminism, A Special Issue . Ms. Comer teaches at Rice University in the Women's Studies and English Departments. carl gutiérrez-jones is an Associate Professor of English at the University ofCalifornia, Santa Barbara. He is the author ofRethinking the Borderlands: Between Chicano Culture and Legal Discourse (University ofCalifornia Press, 1995). Stephen tatum is an Associate Professor and Chair of the English Department at the University of Utah. His book, Inventing Billy he Kid, was recently republished by the University ofArizona Press. 212 Contributors sally ?. fairfax is Professor of Natural Resources Law and Policy in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management and in the Department ofEnvironmental Planning at the University of California at Berkeley. Most of her work appears in law reviews. She is co-author, with Carolyn Yale, of The Federal Lands (Island Press). She is also author of the second edition of Samuel Trask Dana's classic text, Forest and Range Policy. Her most recent work, State Trust Lands, co-authored with Jon Souder, was published in 1996 by University Press of Kansas. lynn huntsinger is Associate Professor in the Department ofEnvironmental Science, Policy, and Management at the University of California, Berkeley. She has published numerous articles about range and forest management. Her most recent work is on the effects of historic changes in management regimes in the Yurok Forest in northwestern California. ...