Contributors

CONTRIBUTORS Ann Marie Basom, Assistant Professor of Russian in the Department of Modern Languages at the University of Northern Iowa, is completing her dissertation on Voloshin's poetry of war and revolution. She has published articles on Gogol, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Voloshin, and is currently researching Russian poetry of the First World War. Skip Brack, English Professor at Arizona State University, has just completed an edition of Samuel Johnson's translation of J. P. de Crousaz's Commentary on Pope's Essay on Man for the Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson. He is presently the textual editor for The Works of Tobias Smollet (University of Georgia Press). Renée R. Curry is Associate Professor of Literature and Writing at California State University, San Marcos. There she teaches American literatures, Women's Studies, and film studies. She has co-edited the New York University Press collection, States of Rage: Emotional Eruption, Violence and Social Change, and she has edited the G.K. Hall Macmillan volume Perspectives on Woody Allen. Both are due out in January 1996. M. G. Hesse, Professor, Department of Modern Languages, at the University of Lethbridge, has published Yves Thériault, Master Storyteller (Peter Lang Publishing, 1993) and translated a number of short stories, notably by Gabrielle Roy, Jean Simard, and Yves Thériault. Cinzia Donatelli Noble teaches Italian grammar, composition, culture, phonetics, and 20th century literature at Brigham Young University. She has published widely in these areas. Dieter Weslowski has published poetry in journals in the United States and Canada. His book, The Bird Who Steals Everything Shining, was published in 1987. He is currently at work on his MFA at the University of Texas, El Paso. Martha Young is an Associate Professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, in the Department of English Language and ESL Education. She has published an article on stimulating writing in ESL classrooms in the Journal ofEducational Issues ofLanguage Minority Students. Currently she is at work on a book integrating language and culture in Language Arts. 118 ...