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NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS Christina L. Baker is associate professor of English at the University of Maine. She has an article on the Gastonia Strike in Mari Jo Buhle, et al., Encyclopediaof theAmericanLeft (New York, 1990), and is completing a doctoral thesis, an oral autobiography of radical novelist Myra Page. William J.Baker is professor of history at the University of Maine. He has published Jesse Owens:An American Life (New York 1986) and Sportsin the WesternWorld(Urbana, 1988) and is currently working on a book on religion and the rise of sport. David W. Blight is assistant professor of History and Black Studies, Amherst College. His recent publications include FrederickDouglass'Civil War:KeepingFaith in Jubilee(LSU Press, 1989) and "'For Something Beyond the Battlefield': Frederick Douglass and the Memory of the Civil War," Journal of American History(March, 1989). He is working on studies of W.E.B. Du Bois, and the problem of the Civil War, Reconstruction and emancipation in Northern memory from 1870-1935. Lorelei Cederstrom is associate professor of English and chair of the department at Brandon University. Her most recent publications include Fine-Tuning the Feminine Psyche:Jungian Patternsin the Novels of DorisLessing, and contributions to the books on Lessing and Whitman in the MlA's Approachesto Teaching WorldLiteratureseries. She has published many articles on women and minority writers, as well as book reviews on topics like Shakespeare and contemporary psychological theory. Donald F. Davis is professor of history at the University of Ottawa. His recent publications include "Competition's Moment": The Jitney-Bus and Corporate Capitalism in the Canadian City, 1914-1929," UrbanHistoryReview 18 (1989) and ConspicuousProduction:Automobilesand ElitesinDetroi~1899-1933(Philadelphia, 1988). Ben Forster teaches business history at the University of Western Ontario. He has published A Conjunction of Interests:Business, Politics and Tariffs, 1825-1879(Toronto, 1986) and a variety of articles relating to Canadian business and political history. He is doing research on the history of business bankruptcy in Canada. Ross Labrie is professor of English at the University of British Columbia. He has recently published The Writings of Daniel Berrigan (Lanham, Md.) and is working on a study of twentieth-century American Catholic writing. David L. Lightner is associate professor of history at the University of Alberta. His most recent publication is "The Interstate Slave Trade in Antislavery Politics," Civil WarHistory,36 (1990). Trevor McNeely teaches English literature at Brandon University. His most recent publications are essays on Othello and Nabokov's Lolita. Work in progress includes a study of Shakespeare and sixteenth-century rhetoric. Eric Savoy is assistant professor of English at the University of Calgary. His most recent work appears in OpenLetterand VictorianReview. He is working on a book on Henry James and gay literary theory. John Anthony Scott teaches at Rutgers University School of Law. He is the editor of the definitive edition of Frances Anne Kemble's Journalof a Residenceon a GeorgianPlatttationin 1838-1839(New York, 1961; Athens, 1984); and author of FannyKemble'sAmerica (New York, 1973) and HistOT}' of theAmerican People(1990). He is currently writing a study of the origins and development of the common law. ...

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