Contributors

CONTRIBUTORS Paul C. Brooke teaches composition at Iowa State University and Des Moines Area Community College. He is currently finishing his Ph.D. dissertation , a collection of poetry developed from cultural and ethnographic studies , at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. His chapbook entitled Strings, detailing the lives of two Yakima women in the 1800s, will be published in 1994 by Pterodactyl Press. Dennis S. Brooks teaches at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. His research interests include the epic in Renaissance and Restoration literature . He is currently at work on a book-length study of Paradise Lost and Renaissance epic commentary. Elizabeth Campbell is an Associate Professor of English at Oregon State University, where she teaches Victorian literature. She has published articles on the works of Christina Rossetti, Thomas Hardy, and George Eliot in Victorian Studies, The Victorian Newsletter, and MLA's Approaches to Teaching Middlemarch. She is currently working on a book, of which this essay is a part, entitled Fortune's Wheel: Women's Time in Victorian Narrative. Kathryn Hall is an Associate Professor of English at Mount Mercy College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Her work has been published in The Antioch Review, Poet and Critic, Poet Lore, and is forthcoming in The Centennial Review. Patricia Hopkins is an Assistant Professor of French at Texas Tech University and has also taught at Purdue University. She has published and presented papers on the theatre of Camus and Sartre and directed a Comparative Literature Symposium on twentieth-century French drama. She is currently working on a study of Camus and Artaud. Silvie L. F. Richards is Assistant Professor of French at the University of Missouri-Kansas City and has degrees from Columbia University. Her articles have appeared in Fabula, French Literature Series, West Virginia University Philological Papers, Studies in Short Fiction, Shakespeare Quarterly, and The Nathaniel Hawthorne Review. Laura Anna Stortoni currently teaches classes in Italian language and culture at Museo ítalo Americano, Fort Mason, San Francisco. Her poetry and poetry translations have appeared in many magazines and poetry journals such as The Midwest Quarterly, The San Marcos Review, Blue Unicorn, and VIA. She has recently collected her own poetry in a volume entitled The Moon and the Island. Lonnie Willis is Professor of English at Boise State University. He has traveled in Africa and has an abiding interest in the life and work of Mary Kingsley. His writing has appeared in The Thoreau Society Bulletin, Critique, and Contemporary Literary Criticism. ...