Notes on Contributors

Canadian Review of AmericanStudies 169 Notes on Contributors HelenM. Buss is associate professor of English at the University of Calgary. She has published a number of articles and monographs on Canadian literature and women's autobiography. He book, The Dear Domestic Circle: Reading Canadian Women's Autobiography in English, is forthcoming in the fallof 1992. F.M. Carroll is professor of history at the University of Manitoba. In 198485 he was the Mary Ball Washington professor of american history at University College, Dublin. His interests are in Anglo-Canadian-American relations and Anglo-Irish-American relations. Tom Hastings is a graduate student in the English department at York University. A Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) recipient, he has published essays on Earle Birney, Francis Sparshott, Edmund White, Alan Hollingurst, and Randy Shilts. His dissertation on Canadian gay male literature examines the writings of Timothy Findley, Scott Symons, and David Watmough. ColetteA. Hyman teaches U.S. history and women's studies at Winona State University. She is at work writing The Drama of Labor: Workers' Theatre and the American Labor Movement in the Twentieth Century, to be published by Temple University Press GeorgeC. Kiser is associate professor of political science at Illinois State University. He is the author of three additional article son the vicepresidency . He is coauthor of Governing American States and Communities and Mexican Workers in the United States. GaryKulik writes on the social history of early American industrialism and has been editor of American Quarterly since 1988. He is also assistant director of academic programs at the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution. 170 Canadian Review of American Stu.dies Robert K. Martin is professor of English and head of the department at the Universite de Montreal. He is the author of The Homosexual Tradition in American Poetry, Hero, Captain, and Stranger: Male Friendship, Social Critique, and Literary Forni in the Sea Novels of Hemzan Melville. He is editor of The Continuing Presenceof Walt Whitman. He is currently working on a study of constructions of sexuality in mid-nineteenth-century America. Donald B. Meyeris professor emeritus at Wesleyan University. He studied at Dep Springs College, the University of Chicago, and Harvard University. He has taught at Harvard, UCLA, and Wesleyan. His last book was Sex and Power: The Rise of Women in American, Russia, Sweden and Italy. He is presently working on a book on American isolationism. Bruce Tucker is an associate editor of The Canadian Review of American Studies and a member of the department of history, University of Windsor. He is the author of Planning and the PersistingPast: Cincinnati's Over-theRhine Since 9140 (with Zane L. Miller), forthcoming, and of "Towards a New Ethnicity: Urban Appalachian Ethnic Consciousness in Cincinnati, 1950-87" (1992). He is currently at work on a study of the urban Appalachian movement in Cincinnati. Maria Elena de Valdes has published on a wide range of topics including urban problems of literacy, the work of Miguel de Unamuno, Garcia Marquez, and Carlos Fuentes. In recent years, she has developed a feminist sociocriticism for third world literatures. She has two large research projects under way: "A history of testimonial literature by women in Latin America" (SSHRCC project 199-91) and "A theory of feminist criticism for third world literature." Julia M.Wright is a third-year Ph.D. student in English at the University of Western Ontario. Her research primarily involves English and Irish literature of the Romantic period. She is a member of the executive committee and advisory board of the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism. ...