Contributors

Contributors Neil Gerlach is an assistant professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Concordia University, Montreal. He holds degrees in sociology, anthropology, law, and education and teaches in the areas of social control and social theory. His current research interests and recent publications focus on the interplay between science fiction and social theory, and how notions of biotechnology enter the public sphere. Graham Thompson is junior research fellow in American Literature at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. He has published articles on representations of the office and business in the Journal of American Studies, American Literary Realism, and OVERhere: A European Journal of American Culture. He is currently working on a project about business and American identity in post-war American fiction to be published by Pluto Press, London, in 2002. Gregory W. Fowler is an assistant professor of Literature and American Studies at Penn State–Erie. He completed his PhD at SUNY–Buffalo, and has published articles on American identity in journals including the Journal of American Culture and the Indian Journal of American Studies. Barry H. Leeds, CSU Distinguished Professor of English at Central Connecticut State University, is author of The Structured Vision of Norman Mailer (NYU Press), Ken Kesey (Ungar), The Enduring Vision of Norman Mailer (Pleasure Boat Studio, 2001), and more than two hundred articles and reviews. Tim Blackmore is an assistant professor in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies at the University of Western Ontario. He writes about science fiction, comics, film and popular narratives; his main research focus is on war. W. Lawrence Hogue, Professor of English at the University of Houston, is the author of Discourse and the Other: the Production of the Afro-American Text (Duke UP, 1986), Race, Modernity, Postmodernity: A Look at the History and the Literatures of People of Color Since the 1960s (SUNY Press, 1996), and the forthcoming The African American Male, Writing, and Difference: A Polycentric Approach to African American Literature, Criticism, and History (SUNY Press, 2002). Canadian Review of American Studies 31 (2001) 220 Bernard Lemelin est professeur agrégé au département d'histoire del'Université Laval. Sa spécialité est l'histoire politique des États-Unis au XXe siècle. Ses divers articles, qui touchent surtout aux années Truman et Eisenhower, ont paru dans des revues tant américaines et françaises que canadiennes. Janet Friskney is a post-doctoral fellow with the History of the Book in Canada /Histoire du livre et de l'imprimé au Canada. She has been working in the field of Canadian book history for the past ten years, and has published in the Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada, the Journal of Canadian Studies, and the Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature. ...