Notes on Contributors

James Applewhite lives with his wife, Jan, beside Seven Mile Creek in Durham County, North Carolina. There they entertain their three grandchildren, and he writes, hikes, and observes stars, birds, and the seasons. The Eno River State Park nearby holds many of the sites documented in A Diary of Altered Light (forthcoming), which will be his tenth book of poems.

John Cunningham is professor emeritus of English at Hollins College. He has written on Everyman, Shakespeare, Donne, Byron, Swift, Dickens, Frost, Waugh, Percy, and Flannery O'Connor.

Morris Dickstein is Distinguished Professor of English at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and a senior fellow of the Center for the Humanities, which he founded in 1993. His books include Gates of Eden: American Culture in the Sixties (1977), Double Agent: The Critic and Society (1992), and, most recently, Leopards in the Temple: The Transformation of American Fiction, 1945–1970 (2002). He is currently working on a cultural history of the Depression years in America, from which the essay in this issue has been adapted.

Andrew Dubois studied literature at Duke and Harvard Universities. His writing has been published in Africana, American Literary History, Explosive Magazine, Harvard Review, The Lights Are Out, and Publishers Weekly. With Frank Lentricchia, he coedited Close Reading: The Reader (2002) and wrote about American modernism for the Cambridge History of American Literature.

Grant Farred is associate professor in the literature program at Duke University. He is author of Midfielder's Moment: Coloured Literature and Culture in Contemporary South Africa (2000) and What's My Name: Black Vernacular Intellectuals (2003), and editor of the collection Rethinking C. L. R. James (1996).

Thomas J. Ferraro is associate professor of English at Duke University. He is the author of Ethnic Passages: Literary Immigrants in Twentieth-Century America (1993) and the editor of Catholic Lives, Contemporary America (1997). He is now at work on Feeling Italian and the Art of American Culture.

Fred Gardaphe is professor of Italian American Studies at SUNY, Stonybrook. Editor of the series in Italian American Studies at SUNY Press and cofounder and coeditor of Voices in Italian Americana, a literary journal and cultural review, he is the author of Italian Signs, American Streets: The Evolution of Italian American Narrative (1996), Dagoes Read: Tradition and the Italian American Writer (1996), Mustache Pete Is Dead: Italian-American Oral Tradition Preserved in Print (1998), Italian American Ways (1989), New Chicago Stories (1990), and From the Margin: Writings in Italian Americana (1991), and two one-act plays, Vinegar and Oil and Imported from Italy.

Derek Goldman is assistant professor of communication studies in the area of performance studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is also the founding artistic director of the StreetSigns Center for Literature and Performance, an acclaimed professional theatre company founded in Chicago in 1992 and now based in Chapel Hill. He has written, adapted, and/or directed more than thirty productions for StreetSigns and also worked with companies such as the Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago.

Professor emeritus in the English department of Duke University, Wallace Jackson has written on a wide variety of neoclassic and romantic writers from John Dryden to William Wordsworth, with special attention to the poetry of Alexander Pope and, in a series of essays, to Thomas Gray. His books include The Probable and the Marvelous: Blake, Wordsworth, and the Eighteenth-Century Critical Tradition (1978); Vision and Re-Vision in Alexander Pope (1983); and two editions of critical essays on Pope's poetry. He has published articles and reviews in thirty or more academic journals and essay collections. On the tercentenary of Pope's birth he was one of the plenary speakers at the Clark Memorial Library. From 1992 through 1996 he was chair of the English department and now lectures at the Duke Institute for Learning in Retirement. Two other essays on Edward Hopper will appear this year in Columbia Journal of American Studies; one on Hopper and Thomas Eakins will appear next year in...