Contributors

Contributors Dana Medoro is an assistant professor in the Department of English at the University of Manitoba. She is author of a book on William Faulkner, Toni Morrison, and Thomas Pynchon, titled The Bleeding of America and forthcoming from Greenwood Press. James Massender teaches literature and cultural analysis in the American Studies programme at Brunel University in London, and is a member of Inter-Face, a strategy group devoted to the logics and logistics of interdisciplinary research. He is editor of Henry David Thoreau and the Transcendentalists : Critical Assessments (in press), and is completing a genealogy of US historical culture entitled Triangulating the Future. His current work includes a project on the relations between technology, nation, and ethnicity . Judith Musser is an assistant professor at La Salle University. She teaches courses in American Literature, American Ethnic Literature, and American Studies. She received her PhD from Purdue University in African American Literature and her M.Litt from the University of Aberdeen. Her other publications include articles on African American Women writers of the Harlem Renaissance, Zora Neale Hurston, and T.S. Eliot. Adelaide H. Villmoare's interests include women's rights in everyday life, the law and politics of death in the US, and the politics of popular culture. She has lately published articles on the death penalty in the US, and feminist jurisprudence. Peter G. Stillman's interests include Hegel's political philosophy, Marx's thought, and ecological issues. His most recent publications focus on utopias and dystopias from More to the present . They both wish to thank their children, Gordon and Alec Stillman, for all their enthusiasms and insights at Walt Disney World and for the fun they made the visit. Sacha Richard is currently pursuing a PhD in history at the University of Ottawa. Her doctoral dissertation, entitled “The Quiet Revolution of New Brunswick’s Acadian Community,” analyzes the socio-economic and ideological origins and evolution of New Brunswick’s Acadian community between 1955 and 1980. Lorraine Ouimet is a PhD candidate in the English Department at the University of Florida, finishing her dissertation on the use of the supernatural in contemporary African American narratives of slavery. She teaches in the University of Florida's Network Writing Environment (NWE), where she is developing pedagogical approaches to teaching African American literature in the computerized English classroom. ...