Contributors

Contributors Eleanor Ty is Graduate Officer and Professor of English at Wilfrid Laurier University in Ontario. Author of Empowering the Feminine: The Narratives of Mary Robinson, Jane West, and Amelia Opie, 1796-1812 ( U of Toronto P 1998) and Unsex‘d Revolutionaries: Five Women Novelists of the 1790s (U of Toronto P 1993), she has edited Memoirs of Emma Courtney (Oxford 1996) and The Victim of Prejudice (Broadview 1994) by Mary Hays. She has published essays on Michael Ondaatje, Joy Kogawa, Jamaica Kincaid, reading romances, Exotica, and Miss Saigon. Her current project is on Asian North American Narratives and the Politics of the Visible. Edward H. Sebesta is an independent researcher examining the neo-Confederate movement and contests over geographical space in the United States. He has contributed to articles about the neo-Confederate movement in the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Intelligence Report and his most recent academic article, “The Confederate Memorial Tartan,” was published in Scottish Affairs (2000). He has appeared on radio examining these issues and has been a consultant for numerous articles and books on this topic. Euan Hague is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Geography at DePaul University. His interests are in cultural, political, and historical geography , particularly geographies of nationalism. He has previously published on nationalism in Scotland and Bosnia-Herzegovina, and is currently examining the Scottish diaspora in the United States. An interest in “Celtic-Americans” led him to research the neo-Confederate movement . His work has appeared in the Scottish Geographical Journal, Études Écossaises, Area, Antipode, and Gender, Place and Culture. Maureen Mancuso is Associate Vice-President Academic and Associate Professor, Department of Political Science at the University of Guelph. Her main research interests are in the areas of political ethics and political corruption, comparative political institutions, legislative behaviour, and American politics. Her books include A Question of Ethics: Canadians Speak Out (Oxford, 1998) and The Ethical World of British MPs (McGill-Queen’s, 1995). She has published on the subject of conflict of interest and legislative ethics in Parliamentary Affairs, Corruption and Reform, Legislative Studies Quarterly, and the Canadian Journal of Political Science. Kevin R. McNamara teaches at the University of Houston-Clear Lake. The author of Urban Verbs: Arts and Discourses of American Cities, his present interest is built space and culture in Los Angeles. Bruce Tucker is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Windsor and an associate editor of the Canadian Review of American Studies . He is author (with Zane L. Miller) of Changing Plans for America’s Inner Cities: Cincinnati’s Over-the-Rhine and Twentieth-Century Urbanism (1998), and he is co-editor of Appalachian Odyssey: Historical Perspectives on the Great Migration (2000). His articles on American cultural and intellectual history have appeared in the New England Quarterly, Prospects, the Canadian Review of American Studies, and Early American Literature. Yves Laberge teaches at Université Laval, Québec. ...