Notes on Contributors

Rachel Adams Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, she is the author of Sideshow U.S.A.: Freaks and the American Cultural Imagination (2001). This article comes from her new book project, "Foreign Relations: Remapping the North American Continent."

George Cotkin Professor of History at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, he recently published Existential America (Johns Hopkins UP, 2002). He is presently writing a study of American cultural criticism since the Second World War.

Elizabeth Duquette Assistant Professor of English at Gettysburg College, her articles have appeared in The Henry James Review, Literature and Psychology, and ESQ. She is currently completing a book entitled, "Loyal Subjects: Problems of Allegiance, Nation, and Race in Nineteenth-Century America."

Kirsten Silva Gruesz Associate Professor of Literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz, she is the author of Ambassadors of Culture: The Transamerican Origins of Latino Writing (Princeton UP, 2002). She has recently completed a series of articles on relations between New Orleans and Central America, and is at work on a book about Spanish-language learning in the US.

Samuel Otter Associate Professor in the English Department at the University of California, Berkley, he is the author of Melville's Anatomies (1999). Currently, he is writing "Philadelphia Stories," a book on literature in and about Philadelphia between the Constitution and the Civil War. His essay "Stowe and Race" is forthcoming in The Cambridge Companion to Stowe (2004).

Benjamin Reiss Assistant Professor of English at Tulane University, he is the author of The Showman and the Slave: Race, Death, and Memory in Barnum's America (2001). He is currently at work on a literary and cultural history of insane asylums in nineteenth-century America.

Forrest Robinson Professor of American Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, his books on the American West include Wallace Stegner (with Margaret Robinson); In Bad Faith: The Dynamics of Deception in Mark Twain's America; Having It Both Ways: Self-Subversion in Western Popular Classics; and The New Western History: The Territory Ahead. He is presently at work on a book on Mark Twain's autobiographical writing.

Neil Schmitz He teaches at the State University ofNew York at Buffalo. His most recent book is White Robe's Dilemma: Tribal History in American Literature (2001).

Malini Johar Schueller Professor of English at the University of Florida, she teaches courses on imperialism, race, American literature, and Asian American literature. She is the author most recently of U.S. Orientalisms: Race, Nation, and Gender in Literature (U of Michigan P, 1998) and coeditor with Edward Watts of Messy Beginnings: Postcoloniality and Early American Studies (2003). Her essays have appeared in journals such as American Literature, Cultural Critique, and Genders.

Jon Smith Assistant Professor of English at the University of Montevallo, he is the coeditor with Deborah Cohn of Look Away! The U.S. South in New World Studies (Duke UP, 2004) and the author of Southern Culture on the Skids: Narcissism, Branding, and the Burden of Southern History (UP of Mississippi, forthcoming).

Laura M. Stevens Assistant Professor of English at the University of Tulsa, she is the author of "The Poor Indians": Missionaries and Transatlantic British Pity, 1642-1776 (U of Pennsylvania P, forthcoming).