Notes on Contributors

Notes on Contributors 119 Notes on Contributors Geoffrey Bilson is Professor of History at the University of Saskatchewan. In recent years his research has concentrated on Canadian medical history. In 1980he published A Darkened House: Cholera in 19th-Century Canada. Heis presently at work on the subject of health and immigration in Canada. Keith Cassidy is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Guelph. He is Book Review Editor of the Canadian Review of Studies in Nationalism. In addition to a recent essay on "Mackenzie King and American Progressivism" in Mackenzie King: Widening the Debate, he has published reviews in the Journal of American History, Histoire Sociale/Social History, the Canadian Journal of Histo,y and CRevAS (most recently 11/2). BarryK. Grant is Chairman of the Department of Fine Arts at Brock University. In addition to his many essays on film genre he has edited Film Genre: Theo,y and Criticism (1977) and has forthcoming Film Study in the Undergraduate Curriculum. Joseph Griffin is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Ottawa. He has published essays on Dreiser's short fiction in The Dreiser Newsletter, Etudes Anglaises, Studies in Short Fiction and English Studies in Canada. Robert A. Gross is an Associate Professor of History and American Studies at Amherst College and currently holds the Chair in American Studies at the University of Sussex. He is the author of the Bancroft Prize-winning The Minutemen and Their World. Lauriat Lane, Jr., is Professor of English at the University of New Brunswick. He has published essays on a variety of American authors and on Dickens. He contributed the chapter on ''Literary Scholarship and Criticism 1960-1973" to the revised edition of The Litera,y Histo,y of Canada. Editor of English Studies in Canada, he is also at work on an interdisciplinary study of the major poems of Archibald MacLeish. Ralph Maud is Professor of English at Simon Fraser University. He is the editor of The Salish People: The Local Contribution of Charles Hill Tout (4 vols., 1978). His Guide to B.C. Indian Myth and Legend was published in March. Richard Reid is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Guelph. He has published essays on both Civil War history and Upper Canada in such journals as Canadian Journal of Histot}', North Carolina Historical Reviev,..' and Scottish Traditions. He is currently at work on a study of the North Carolina officer class. 120 Notes on Contributors Bruce Tucker is Assistant Professor of History at Dalhousie University. He has contributed essays to the New England Quarterly, Studies in EighteenthCentury Culture, Eighteenth-Century Studies, Labour/ Le Travailleur and CRevAS. He is currently writing a history of religion in provincial NewEngland. Harold M. Waller is Associate Professor of Political Science ·at McGill University where he has also served as Chairman of the department. He has published articles and reviews on various aspects of American politics and public policy in Current History, Middle East Focus, the Canadian Journal of Political Science and International Journal. He is co-editor of a forthcoming special issue of Publius. News Notes The 1983conference of the CANADIAN ASSOCIATION FOR AMERICAN STUDIES will be held in Banff, Alberta, October 27-29. The theme is Into the Third Century: Utopia, Distopia-Futurology and Prophetic Fictions. Papers, not exceeding 25minutes, are invited which explore the possibilities, expectations and ironies of future American culture within an interdisciplinary context. The deadline for proposals (a minimum of 2 pages, in 2 copies) is May 15,1983.Approved papers must be received no later than September 1, 1983,in 2 copies along with a 1-page abstract. Send all proposals and papers to John Stephen Martin, Department of English, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4.Further information is available upon request. The 1983 meeting of the WESTERN AMERICAN LITERATURE ASSOCIATION will be held October 6-8 at the Radisson St. Paul Hotel, St. Paul, Minnesota. Papers on all aspects of Western American literature are invited and should not be longer than 10 pages. Of special interest to readers of CRevAS is the proposed Canadian-American session. Proposals/ abstracts are solicited which compare works from both Wests. Possible topics...