Notes on Contributors

540 Letter to the Editors that reviewers who simply cannot stomach my spirit of fairness toward the architect of the Vietnam War quickly turn to nitpicks on "style" or something similar, never even mentioning the subject matter of a third of the book. Thank you for opening up your pages for these remarks. Out of more than thirty scholarly reviews, the one in your journal wins the cake as easily the most pitiful and least scholarly effort. (Ed. note: James Oliver Robertson has ~eclined to reply) Notes on Contributors ValClemens is a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Fellow in the Department of English at the University of Manitoba. She has previously published an essay on biographical treatments of Zelda Fitzgerald inDalhousie Review. Her interests lie in the areas of myth criticism and of twentieth-century women's literature. Olive Patricia Dickason is Professor of History at the University of Alberta. She is the author of The Myth of the Savage and the Beginnings of French Colonialism in the Americas and of Indian Arts in Canada. Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones is Senior Lecturer in American Studies at the University of Edinburgh. The author of many essays and reviews, he is editor of Eagle Against Empire: American Opposition to European lrnperialism, 1914-1980(1983)and, with Bruce Collins, of The Growth of Federal Power in American History (1983).His most recent monograph is Violence and Reform inAmerican History (1978).He has forthcoming a history of the CIA. Paul Lachance isan Associate Professor of History at the University of Ottawa. He iscurrently working on a study of the economic and demographic dimensions of French cultural persistence in antebellum New Orleans. Catherine McLay teaches English at the University of Calgary. Douglas Smith is an Assistant Professor of English at St: Francis Xavier University. He isthe author of four books of poetry, the most recent of which is Living in the Cave of the Mouth. Robert S. Smith is a Lecturer in English at the University of Manitoba. His main research interest is in the interdisciplinary field of theater and theo~ogy. Bart Testa teaches cinema studies at Innis College and semiotics of visual art at Victoria College, both in the University of Toronto. He is Past President of the Film Studies Association of Canada (1983-85). Terry Whalen is Professor of English at St. Mary's University and Editor of Atlantic Provinces Book Reviei,v. His books include Bliss Carman and His Works (1983),The Atlantic Anthology: Criticism (1985),and Philip Larkin Notes on Contributors 541 and English Poett)' (1986). He has written on Sir Charles G.D. Roberts and the American tradition of naturalism, and on Theodore Dreiser's affinities with Sigmund Freud. His Sir Charles G.D. Roberts and His Works will be published in 1987. Rob Wilson teaches English at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. He has published poetry in such journals as Poetty, Partisan Review and Korea Journal. He has essays forthcoming in Poetics Today, American Quarterly, Quany West and Ironwood. Mark Royden Winchell is an Associate Professor of English at Clemson University. A frequent contributor to CRevAS, his work appears often in Sewanee Review and the book page of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He has published books on Joan Didion, William F. Buckley, Jr., and Leslie Fiedler, as well as monographs on Horace McCoy and John Gregory Dunne. He is currently doing research on contemporary American novelist William Humphrey and former Georgia senator Herman Talmadge. News Notes The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, willoffer in 1987-88a number of visiting fellowships, to enable scholars engaged in postdoctoral or equivalent research to visit New Haven to make use of the collections . The grants willsupport travel to and from New Haven and a stipend for housing and meals for the term of the fellowship, which will normally be for one or two months. Deadline for applications will be 1 February 1987,with announcement of the awards by May 1987. For information write to the Director, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, 1603AYale Station, New Haven CT 06520. ...