Notes on Contributors

222 Notes on Contributors Canadian Review of A'merican Studies/ Revue canadienne d'etudes mnencames Yasmeen Abu-Laban holds the Grant Notley Memorial Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Department of Political Science at the University of Alberta . She specializes in Canadian and comparative politics. Her publications include work on ethnic minorities and the Canadian party system, race/ ethnicity and Vancouver local politics, immigration policy, and multiculturalism . De Witt Douglas Kilgore is currently an assistant professor of English at Indiana University. His current project, Beyond Earth: Popular Science, Science Fiction, and the Cultural Construction of an Anierican Future m Space, 194S-1980, engages the intellectual and cultural history generated by the exploration of space, a technocratic dream founded on the scientific and imperial hopes of the late nineteenth century. Victoria Lamont is completing her PhD dissertation in American literature at the University of Alberta. She is the recipient of a SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship and a University of Alberta Dissertation Fellowship. Publications are forthcoming in A Literary History of the American West and Dictionary of Literary Biography. Kevin McNeilly teaches Critical Theory and Cultural Studies in the department of English at the University of British Columbia. He has published articles on the music of John Zorn and Glenn Gould, among others. EdwardS. Shapiro is a professor of history at Seton Hall University in New Jersey. He is the author of A Time for Healing: American Jewry Since World War II (1992) and editor of Letter of Sidney Hook: Democracy, Communism, and the Cold War (1995). He is currently writing a book on the Crown Heights (Brooklyn, New York) riot of August, 1991. His major fields of interest are American conservative thought and American ethnic history. Canadian Review of American Studies/ Revue c,madienne d'etudes amencames 223 Jonathan Swainger is an assistant professor in the history program at the University of Northern British Columbia. His current research interests include the Canadian Department of Justice in the post-Confederation era, the nature of extradition between Canada and the United States in the second half of the nineteenth century, and legal culture and criminality in the Peace River country of British Columbia and Alberta. Bryce Traister is an assistant professor of English at the University of Western Ontario, where he teaches classes in American literatures. He is currently at work on a book manuscript, tentatively titled The American Man of Feeling: Gender, Sentiment, and Authorship in Antebellum Am.erica. Bruce Tucker is associate professor in the Department of History, University of Windsor and an associate editor of the Canadian Review of American Studies. His articles on American cultural and intellectual history have appeared in the New England Quarterly, Prospects, the Canadian Review of American Studies, and Early A1nerica11 Literature. He is currently working on a study of the urban Appalachian ethnic movement in Cincinnati. Andrew Walzer is an instructor of composition and American Studies at the Umversity of Minnesota. He received his PhD from the University of Minnesota in American Studies. He is currently working on a book examining metaphors of the nation and manhood in twentieth-century U.S. cultural criticism. ...