Notes on Contributors

Notes on Contributors DAVID GREVEN is Assistant Professor of English at Connecticut College. His new book, Manhood in Hollywood from Bush to Bush, is forthcoming from the University of Texas Press; his first, Men beyond Desire: Manhood, Sex, and Violation in American Literature (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005), examines the representation of masculinity in antebellum American literature (with a chapter on Poe). Greven’s current book project is called “Hawthorne and Freud: Narcissism, Trauma, Vision.” RICHARD KOPLEY, Professor of English at Penn State DuBois, is the author of The Threads of “The Scarlet Letter” (Univ. of Delaware Press, 2003) and Edgar Allan Poe and the Dupin Mysteries (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008). He is the editor of the Penguin edition of Poe’s novel The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym (1999), as well as of Prospects for the Study of American Literature, volume 1 (NYU Press, 1997), and Poe’s “Pym”: Critical Explorations (Duke Univ. Press, 1992). He is the coeditor, with Jackson Bryer, of the annual Resources for American Literary Study (AMS Press) and, with Barbara Cantalupo, of Prospects for the Study of American Literature, volume 2 (AMS Press, 2009). He is also a former president and honorary member of the Poe Studies Association. MICHAEL C. MCGEHEE is a doctoral student in English at the University of Delaware. He is currently working on his dissertation, a study of representations of family and the nation as family in late nineteenth- and early twentiethcentury U.S. literature. LELAND S. PERSON is Professor of English and Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the University of Cincinnati. He is the author of Henry James and the Suspense of Masculinity (Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 2003), Aesthetic Headaches: Women and a Masculine Poetics in Poe, Melville, and Hawthorne (Univ. of Georgia Press, 1988), and many articles on nineteenth-century American writers, especially Hawthorne, Poe, Melville, James, and Cooper. His most recent books are A Historical Guide to James Fenimore Cooper (Oxford Univ. Press, 2007), The Cambridge Introduction to Nathaniel Hawthorne (2007), and a Norton Critical Edition, The Scarlet Letter, and Other Writings (2005). C
2008 Washington State University P O E S T U D I E S , VOL. 41, 2008 117 N O T E S O N C O N T R I B U T O R S CINDY WEINSTEIN is Professor of English at the California Institute of Technology . She is the author of Family, Kinship, and Sympathy in NineteenthCentury American Literature (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2004) and The Literature of Labor and the Labors of Literature: Allegory in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction (Cambridge, 1995); the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Harriet Beecher Stowe (Cambridge, 2004); and coeditor, with Peter Stoneley, of Blackwell’s Concise Companion to American Fiction, 1900–1950 (2008). This essay on Poe is part of a larger project on temporality and American literature. 118 P O E S T U D I E S ...