Contributors

CONTRIBUTORS Peter Buckroyd, who holds degrees from Leeds (B.A.) and McMaster (Ph.D.), has taught in various educational settings, including British public schools, colleges of education, and universities, and is now resident director of a London program for American students from Northwest colleges and universities. He publishes in contemporary drama and eighteenth-century studies. Andrée Chedid was born in Cairo of Egypto-Lebanese parents and was educated at the American University there and in France. She has lived in Paris since 1946. Recognized as an important contemporary poet, she is also a novelist , dramatist, and short-story writer. Her latest novel, La Maison sans Racines (1985), was nominated for the Prix Goncourt. Alfred Cismaru, professor at Texas Tech University, has published three books: Boris Vian, Marguerite Duras, and Moliere and Marivaux: A Comparison. He is also the author of some 100 articles in various journals and has presented over 150 papers at scholarly meetings and colloquia here and abroad. Edward A. Geary is a professor of English at Brigham Young University, the editor of BYUStudies, and a member of the board of directors of the Utah Arts Council. He has published articles in Studies in Short Fiction, Henry James Review, and Utah Historical Quarterly, as well as numerous personal essays, several of which are collected in his book Goodbye to Poplarhaven: Recollections of a Utah Boyhood (Utah 1985). Richard J. Golsan is assistant professor of French and Language Coordinator at Case Western Reserve University. He has published on Montherlant, Psichari, René Girard, and others in The Cincinnati Romance Review, The French Review, Helios, and Modern Language Notes. His book on Montherlant, "Service inutile": A Study ofthe Tragic in the Theatre ofHenry de Montherlant, is forthcoming in the Romance Monograph series. Luis T. González-del-Valle is a professor of Modern Languages and Literatures at The University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He is currently the Executive Secretary of the Twentieth Century Spanish Association of America, the Director of the Society of Spanish and Spanish-American Studies, and the Editor of Annals of Contemporary Spanish Literature and Siglo XX/20th Century. He has written scholarly books and essays on Valle-Inclán, Unamuno, García Lorca, Sábato, García Márquez, Asturias, Fuentes, Ramón Hernández, Cervantes, Lope de Vega, Delibes, Cela, and others. Catherine Nickel teaches at The University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She is the Managing Editor of the Society of Spanish and Spanish-American Studies. Her essays on Valle-Inclán and Garcia Lorca have been published in American scholarly journals. Judith Radke completed her doctoral studies at The University of Colorado, Boulder. As a recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship, she studied and lived in Bordeaux . She has been a member of the French Faculty of the Department of Foreign Languages at Arizona State University, where she teaches courses in twentieth-century literature and translation, since 1960. She was the acting director of the A.S.U. Semester in Lille, France, in Fall 1985. Edward J. Rielly is associate professor of English at Saint Joseph's College of Maine. His articles and papers include studies of Swift, Marvell, the Wartons, and Beowulf. He is currently preparing the Gulliver's Travels volume for the MLA series Approaches to Teaching Masterpieces of World Literature. A chapbook of his poetry, Rain Falling Quietly, has recently been published by Wind Chimes Press. David Tammer has published poetry and fiction in Poetry Northwest, Epoch, el corno emplumado, American Weave, Puerto del Sol, and other magazines. He is co-editor of the Gila Review and teaches English and creative writing at Eastern Arizona College, Thatcher. ANNOUNCEMENTS The 1986 Wyoming Conference on English will be held in Laramie, June 23-27. Guest speakers are Sharon Crowley, Joseph Langland, Frank Lentricchia, James Moffett, and James Slevin. Contact Tilly Warnock, Conference Director, Department of English, Box 3353 University Station, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY 82071 for registration materials. The University of Kansas Department of English will hold a conference on VICTORIA 'S JUBILEES, 1887 AND 1897: A CENTENNIAL RECONSIDERATION, March 26-28, 1987. Relevant papers, twenty minutes each, in English literature and such related disciplines as history, art history, music history, history of science , Irish...