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Canadian Review of American Studies/ Revuecanadtenned'etudesamericaines Notes on Contributors 183 Thomas Carmichael is an assistant professor in the Department of English at the University of Western Ontario. His articles on contemporary American literature and postmodern culture have appeared in various journals, among them Contenzporary Literature, boundary 2, University o(Toronto Quarterly and Revue franr;aise d' etudes americaines. He is also co-editor with Martin Kreiswirth of Constructive Criticism: The Human Sciences in the Age of Theory (University of Toronto Press, 1995). Joseph Duffey, formerly president and chancellor of The University of Massachusetts, is director of the United States Information Agency. He previously served as assistant secretary of State for Education and Cultural Affairs. He has taught at Yale University and is the author of Lewis Mumford 's Philosophy of Technology and Culture. GarethEvans is a PhD candidate in the English department at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. The present article is part of a dissertation entitled "Sentiments of Change: American Literary History and the Politics of Popular Writing, 1789-1930." He has previously published work in Discourse. ScottMichaelsen is an assistant professor of American Literature at the University of Texas at El Paso. In 1995-96, he is a Fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies. His current project is a book on early nineteenth -century U.S. anthropology, archaeology, and history, with the emphasis on reading tropes of race, colour, and culture in both Anglo and Amerindian texts. A first section of this book-length work will be published in late 1996 in Early American Literature. MichaelE. Nowlin is currently a lecturer at the University of British Columbia , and is working on a study of F. Scott Fitzgerald. His most recent essay, "Where is that Country?: The Returning Masquerader in Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence," will appear in Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal. 184 Canadian Review of American Studies/ Revue cat:adienned'etudesamericaines Jerry A. Varsava teaches American literature and contemporary critical theory at Memorial University where he is Coordinator of Graduate Studies in English. He is the author of Contingent Meanings: Postmodern Fiction, Mimesis, and the Reader (1990). His essays have appeared in journals in Canada, the United States, and Europe. SidneyWeintraubholds the William E. Simon Chair in Political Economy at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D. C.; and is the Dean Rusk Professor of International Affairs at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, the University of Texas at Austin. He writes frequently on Canada-U. S. relations. Heather Zwicker is an assistant professor of English at the University of Alberta. A postcolonialist by training, her other interests include feminist theory, queer theory, and cultural studies. ...

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